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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) Oct 22, 2009 
The image, acquired by the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X, shows part of the southern Rhine Rift Valley near Freiburg and the city of Staufen (red arrow). To create this image, two separate images that were acquired by the satellite six months apart during 2008 were combined to form what is known as an interferogram. In the built-up area of Staufen, a clear pattern of deformation can ... read more 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 21, 2009How can we be sure that instruments that will be sent on future Martian missions will work properly? How do we know that they will obtain accurate and precise measurements? How will we be able to compare the data to what we have seen on our planet? The answer is easy: by testing, testing and again testing them during field trips on Earth. This has been one of the most important goals of ... 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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Fort Bliss TX (SPX) Oct 22, 2009The U.S. Army has activated its second Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery during a ceremony at Fort Bliss, Texas. THAAD is a defensive weapon system developed by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency, a joint service organization within the Department of Defense. The ceremony marked the activation of A Battery/2nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 32nd ... more 
Warsaw (AFP) Oct 21, 2009Poland is ready to join a new US anti-missile system replacing a plan fiercely opposed by Moscow, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden. "Poland feels this so-called SM-3 concept, a reconfigured anti-missile system, is very interesting, and needed," Tusk told reporters during a joint press conference with Biden. "We are prepared to ... more 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Oct 21, 2009 Israel and the United States kicked off Wednesday a major air defense exercise that will simulate a missile attack on Israel. Code-named Juniper Cobra, the two-week exercise is the largest drill ever between the two countries. It is the fifth in a series of biennial exercises and will include about 1,000 American personnel and an equal number of personnel from Israel's military. ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Oct 16, 2009Using satellite radar data and GPS measurements, Chinese researchers have explained the exceptional geological events leading to the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake that killed nearly 90 000 people in China's Sichuan Province. "One of the very fundamental issues for understanding an earthquake is to know how the rupture is distributed on the fault plane, which is directly related to the amount of ... more 
Warsaw, Poland (UPI) Oct 15, 2009 Experts are optimistic that U.S. President Barack Obama's new missile defense plan for Eastern Europe is better than the old one. Obama's new plan, the so-called "phased, adaptive approach" for a European missile defense system features a combination of fixed (ground-based) and relocatable (on U.S. warships) Standard Missile 3 interceptors and radars that focuses mainly on the threat fr ... more 
Moscow (AFP) Oct 13, 2009Russia and the United States should work more closely on missile defence, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday, after Washington's shelving of a missile shield plan ended a major dispute with Moscow. "We would like to see Russia and the United States collaborate closely on missile defence," Clinton told reporters after talks with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. ... more |
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