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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2009 
This image - from the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite - shows the city of Kiel and the Kiel Fjord, an approximately 17-km long fjord or firth of the Baltic Sea on the northeastern shore of Schleswig-Holstein. The ships that were in this area at the time the image was captured are each marked with a circle. The high resolution of TerraSAR-X images makes them ideally suitable for the rapid ... read more 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jul 27, 2009 The failure of an upgraded Arrow 2 missile interceptor in a test off the Californian coast was seen as a serious setback for Israel's main defense system at a time when Iran is accelerating its long-range ballistic missile program. The Arrow test scheduled for July 22 was aborted on three occasions because of technical malfunctions, including communications glitches between the missile ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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Tadcaster, England (UPI) Jul 27, 2009 A British university has quietly resumed growing genetically modified potatoes a year after protesters ripped up the crop, prompting calls of foul play. The 400 plants in the field near Tadcaster, 15 miles east of Leeds and 10 miles west of York, were originally removed in May 2008, just weeks after planting, as a result of damage caused by unidentified environmentalists. ... more  
St. Louis (UPI) Jul 23, 2009 The first Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet for the Royal Australian Air Force has had a test flight from Lambert International Airport in St. Louis as part of the manufacturer's preparations for the aircraft to make its maiden voyage to the buyer. Boeing unveiled the aircraft July 8 at the company's Integrated Defense Systems facility in St. Louis and the test flight took place on Tuesday ... more 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jul 24, 2009Northrop Grumman's newest active electronically scanned array (AESA) fighter sensor, the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR), has been successfully installed on a U.S. Air Force F-16 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. In November, SABR began a series of flight demonstrations aboard the company's test aircraft, successfully detecting and displaying multiple aerial targets and generating high ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Jul 20, 2009Entrepreneurs at ESA's Business Incubation centre in the Netherlands have used radar technology from the agency's Envisat remote-sensing satellite to develop a compact, high-resolution radar that can monitor land and buildings from small aircraft. The radar can monitor structures such as dams, harbours, canals and buildings, leading to maps for urban planning, territory surveillance and ... more 
Dusseldorf, Germany (UPI) Jul 17, 2009 German military vehicle specialist Rheinmetall Defence has been given the lead in a $5.6 million project to develop unmanned vehicles for the European Defense Agency. Rheinmetall will head up the project with Germany's Diehl BGT Defence, France's ECA and France's Thales Optronique also involved. The contract calls for the construction of a demonstration version of an unmanned ground ... more  
Dayton OH (SPX) Jul 17, 2009Ball Aerospace and Technologies has received a contract from the U.S. Air Force National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) to continue providing Measurement and Signature Intelligence and Advanced Geospatial Intelligence (MASINT/AGI) to warfighters through the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP). The five-year, indefinite quantity contract has a ceiling value of $600 ... more |
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