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NASA Airborne Radar To Study Quake Faults In HaitiPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2010 In response to the disaster in Haiti on Jan. 12, NASA has added a series of science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola to a previously scheduled three-week airborne radar campaign to Central America. NASA's Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar, or UAVSAR, left NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., on Jan. 25 aboard a modified NASA Gulfstream III aircraft. During its trek to Central America, which ... read more |
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DLR Scientists Support Relief Workers In Haiti Earthquake DisasterBonn, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2010 Following the devastating earthquake on Haiti, relief organisations require rapid, reliable and meaningful information on the local situation, the state of the infrastructure and the extent of the damage for their deployment in the disaster zone. In this context, scientists from the German Aerospace Center are giving important support by providing free access to maps of the crisis region based on satellite data. At the moment, the researchers are focusing particularly on Port-au-Prince, the capita ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jan 25, 2010A new report from the National Research Council lays out options NASA could follow to detect more near-Earth objects (NEOs) - asteroids and comets that could pose a hazard if they cross Earth's orbit. The report says the $4 million the U.S. spends annually to search for NEOs is insufficient to meet a congressionally mandated requirement to detect NEOs that could threaten Earth. Congress ma ... more  
Washington (UPI) Jan 21, 2009 The Littoral Combat Ship Independence has joined the U.S. Navy despite plans by the Pentagon to kill a series of arms and defense programs. The USS Independence was commissioned earlier this week at a ceremony in Mobile, Ala. The ship is the first LCS of the General Dynamics variant, but one of two sea frames being manufactured. As part of the General Dynamics group, Australia-ba ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 24, 2010Thousands of Haitian voices rose in prayer from ruined churches Sunday, as recovery teams began to bulldoze the capital's devastated centre and a French ship carrying supplies arrived. Twelve days after a catastrophic earthquake razed much of the city, hundreds of thousands of Haitians remained in desperate need of food, water and shelter, despite a large-scale US military intervention and U ... more |
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Northrop Grumman Wins Army Integrated Battle Command System ContractHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 20, 2010 The U.S. Army has selected Northrop Grumman to develop the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) under a $577 million, five-year, cost-plus-incentive-fee/cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for system design and development. IBCS is an integrated air- and missile-defense command and control capability. Enabled by a battlefield fire control network, the system will give warfighters the technology, tools and information they need to make better decisions on the battlefie ... read more |
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