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Raytheon has been awarded one of three $30 million contracts for Phase A system design and prototype of the Space Fence system. Space Fence will provide the U.S. Air Force enhanced space surveillance capability to detect and report space objects. "Space Fence is the future of space situational awareness," said Pete Franklin, vice president for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems' National ... read more 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jul 16, 2009Neil Armstrong was supposed to be asleep. The moonwalking was done. The moon rocks were stowed away. His ship was ready for departure. In just a few hours, the Eagle's ascent module would blast off the Moon, something no ship had ever attempted before, and Neil needed his wits about him. He curled up on the Eagle's engine cover and closed his eyes. But he could not sleep. Neither cou ... more
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Washington (AFP) July 15, 2009US President Barack Obama on Wednesday warned Congress he would veto funds for more F-22 fighter jets as well as other changes to his proposed defense budget, his administration said. The president was opposed to provisions in a bill by the Senate Armed Services Committee that would fund an additional seven F-22 aircraft at a cost of 1.75 billion dollars and a second engine for the F-35 jet ... more  
Moorestown NJ (SPX) Jul 16, 2009The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a $10 million firm-fixed-price contract to perform concept studies for the Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR), a scalable solid-state radar suite for future surface combatants. Comprised of an S-Band radar, an X-Band radar and a Radar Suite Controller (RSC), AMDR is intended to significantly enhance a ship's defensive capability against advanced ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 15, 2009Venus Express has charted the first map of Venus's southern hemisphere at infrared wavelengths. The new map hints that our neighbouring world may once have been more Earth-like, with both, a plate tectonics system and an ocean of water. The map comprises over a thousand individual images, recorded between May 2006 and December 2007. Because Venus is covered in clouds, normal cameras cannot ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 15, 2009Carlos became a hurricane for about 24 hours over the previous weekend, then powered down to a tropical storm and now atmospheric conditions have enabled him to power back into a hurricane in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite has been capturing images of Carlos since it was born as tropical depression #4E last week. Scientists at NASA ... more |
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Woomera, Australia (SPX) Jul 10, 2009The Echidna 2A Electronic Warfare Self Protection (EWSP) system that will soon protect the Australian Army's Black Hawk helicopter fleet has successfully completed another series of critical flight trials. BAE Systems has confirmed that it had jointly conducted with the Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) a full airborne trial of the Echidna system over the Woomera area in May. ... more  
Washington (AFP) July 9, 2009Computer security experts were divided Thursday on whether North Korea was behind the ongoing attacks on US and South Korean websites, an assault that highlighted the vulnerabilities of the Web. "I don't think it was North Korea, but there's really no proof either way," said Johannes Ullrich, chief technology officer for the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, which monitors cyber threat ... more 
Melbourne (UPI) Jul 9, 2009 Australia's new $46.73 billion defense capability plan has set its sights firmly on acquiring the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as central to its air defense strategy. The Labor government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will buy three F-35 squadrons, around 70 aircraft, for operational duty beginning in 2017 as part of the country's $3.9 billion annual defense spending. ... more 
Syracuse NY (SPX) Jul 09, 2009Lockheed Martin has delivered the first Non-Recurring Engineering Enhanced AN/TPQ-36 Counterfire Target Acquisition (EQ-36) Radar System to the U.S. Army. The EQ-36 radar's delivery on July 2 followed its successful live-fire performance testing against indirect fire from mortars, artillery and rockets from a simulated enemy. The series of tests, held this spring at the Army's Yuma Proving ... more |
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