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Infoterra Completes Largest Oil Slick Mapping Project Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 25, 2009
Infoterra has completed an oil slick mapping and interpretation project of offshore Seychelles in collaboration with Seychelles Petroleum Company (Seypec). This is the largest slick mapping project ever undertaken of offshore Seychelles - with the acquisition of over 150 radar satellite scenes across the 500,000 km2 area - the project was undertaken during April and May to take advantage ... read moreBoeing Committed To Funding F-15 Silent Eagle Development
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 25, 2009Boeing will dedicate funding to further development of the F-15 Silent Eagle program, with the goal of a flight demonstration in the third quarter of 2010. The announcement came at the Paris Air Show following meetings with potential customers and reaffirmed a commitment to the prototype program made by Boeing Integrated Defense Systems President and CEO Jim Albaugh at the air show on June ... more
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US military chief to talk missile defense in Russia visit
Washington (AFP) June 24, 2009The top US military officer, Admiral Mike Mullen, will visit Moscow this week to discuss the sensitive topic of missile defense with his Russian counterpart, his spokesman said on Wednesday. The trip comes after US officials and lawmakers raised the possibility of involving Russian radars in a missile defense system for Europe. "We expect missile defense issues to come up," Captain John ... more Israel 'close to deal on F-35'
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jun 24, 2009 After protracted disagreements, the Israeli Defense Ministry was reported Wednesday to be close to sewing up a deal to buy up to 25 U.S. F-35 Lightning II stealth fighter aircraft built by Lockheed Martin, which Israeli leaders believe is essential to counter Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program. According to the Jerusalem Post, the two sides reached an agreement on several Israeli ... more JPL Wind Watcher Blows Into Second Decade
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 23, 2009NASA's Quick Scatterometer, or QuikScat, mission was conceived, developed and launched less than two years after the unexpected loss of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Advanced Earth Observing Satellite-1 spacecraft, which carried the NASA Scatterometer in June 1997. Just two years later, on June 19, 1999, the QuikScat spacecraft carrying JPL's SeaWinds instrument was launched ... more Hawaii defense strengthened
Pyongyang, North Korea (UPI) Jun 22, 2009 The threat from North Korea's aggressive posture went up another notch as the United States prepared to counter any missile attack from the isolated communist country led by the unpredictable Kim Jong Il. In Hawaii, which a North Korean long-range missile could target, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates last week ordered a substantial increase of missile and other defense systems. ... more |
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TerraSAR-X Passes Two Year Mark
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 19, 2009TerraSAR-X was launched on 15 June 2007 and has gone on to have a unique and highly successful track record. In contrast to optical systems, the radar technology on this satellite enables it to record images through cloud and at night, meaning that it is able to operate continuously, right around the clock. TerraSAR-X is Germany's first radar satellite and is, at the same time, the first ... more Bringing Light To The Moon's Dark Craters
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 19, 2009A new lunar topography map with the highest resolution of the moon's rugged south polar region provides new information on some of our natural satellite's darkest inhabitants - permanently shadowed craters. The map was created by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who collected the data using the Deep Space Network's Goldstone Solar System Radar located in ... more Professor Prepares For America's Return To The Moon
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jun 19, 2009The Interdisciplinary A building on the Tempe campus looks rather average from the outside. There isn't anything that hints at the excitement, talent and innovation hidden behind its nondescript doors, and there is certainly no indication that the first steps of a great journey are taking place inside. For nearly two years, professor Mark Robinson and his team have called this building ... more Scientists Search For A Pulse In Skies Above Earthquake Country
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 18, 2009When a swarm of hundreds of small to moderate earthquakes erupted beneath California's Salton Sea in March, sending spasms rumbling across the desert floor, it set off more than just seismometers. It also raised the eyebrows of quite a few concerned scientists. The reason: lurking underground, just a few kilometers to the northeast, lays a sleeping giant: the 160-kilometer-(100-mile) long ... more |
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Drone Radar Over Alaska and Wyoming Points Way to Buried Ice on Mars
NISAR Radar Satellite Tracks Mexico City Ground Sinking at Over Half an Inch Per Month
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