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If life exists on Titan, it's anyone's guess what that life looks like. Saturn's largest moon is not a good candidate for Earth-like life because it usually lacks liquid water on the surface. But one of Titan's most promising features is the presence of lakes filled with liquid hydrocarbons, or molecules made of hydrogen and carbon, such as methane and ethane. These lakes were recently ... read more 
San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 25, 2009With the whoosh of compressed gas and the whir of unspooling wire, a team of Boulder scientists and engineers tested a new instrument prototype that might be used to detect groundwater deep inside Mars. The Mars Time Domain Electromagnetic Sounder (MTDEM) uses induction to generate electrical currents in the ground, whose secondary magnetic fields are in turn detected at the planetary ... more
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Jun 26, 2009"June is busting out all over," as the song says, and with it, U.S. residents along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts begin to gaze warily toward the ocean, aware that the hurricane season is revving up. In the decade since NASA's QuikScat satellite and its SeaWinds scatterometer launched in June 1999, the satellite has measured the wind speed and wind direction of these powerful storms ... more 
Toulouse, France (SPX) Jun 25, 2009Infoterra 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 ... more  
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jun 26, 2009Lockheed Martin installed the latest evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) System - which includes a new ballistic missile defense signal processor, Aegis BSP - on the cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70). Over the next year, USS Lake Erie will complete a series of tests, leading up to full certification of the system upgrade by the U.S. Navy in early 2011. The Aegis BMD 4.0.1 ... more  
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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Washington (AFP) June 19, 2009The US military beefed up its Hawaii defenses Friday over fears Pyongyang may launch a missile at the Pacific island chain, as it tracked a North Korean ship possibly carrying banned cargo. The vessel, which has been monitored for days, is the first to be tracked under UN sanctions imposed last week after North Korea's underground nuclear test on May 25. US Defense Secretary Robert Gates ... more 
Washington (AFP) June 18, 2009The United States has concerns about a possible North Korean missile launch towards Hawaii and has taken steps to ensure the protection of US territory, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. "We do have some concerns if they were to launch a missile ... in the direction of Hawaii," Gates told a news conference. The defense secretary said he had approved the deployment of THAAD ... more 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 19, 2009The U.S. Air Force and Raytheon completed a preliminary design review of the Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer. The MALD-J adds radar-jamming capability to the basic MALD platform. "The PDR confirmed our design approach for MALD-J is technologically sound," said Ken Watson, the U.S. Air Force's MALD program manager. "I've cleared the MALD-J team to proceed with final design activities ... more 
Paris, France (SPX) Jun 19, 2009The Solar X-ray Imager (SXI) instrument, designed and built by Lockheed Martin at its Space Systems Advanced Technology Center (ATC) is ready for flight. Built for the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Md., SXI is awaiting launch - scheduled for June 26 - on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-O spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force ... more |
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