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Thales Alenia Space To Build Jason-3 Operational Oceanographic SatelliteCannes, France (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 Thales Alenia Space announced to have signed with French Space Agency (CNES), the contract to build the Jason-3 satellite. The Jason-3 operational oceanographic mission involves a quadripartite collaboration between the two meteorological organizations Eumetsat and NOAA, acting as the leaders of the program, and CNES and its American counterpart NASA. Jason-3 will allow the continuity of high precision ocean topography measurements beyond TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2, which are now op ... read more |
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Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 18, 2010Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft slammed into a militant compound in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt on Thursday, killing at least four Islamist insurgents, officials said. The attack was the fourth US bombing raid since Sunday in North Waziristan district, and hit a stronghold of the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, known for staging attacks on US and NATO troops fighting in Afghani ... more  
Islamabad (AFP) Feb 18, 2010A bomb attack and a US missile strike killed 20 people in northwest Pakistan Thursday as Islamabad raised fresh concerns about knock-on instability from a major US-led offensive in Afghanistan. The bomb exploded in a market controlled by Islamist militants in Khyber, which is part of a NATO supply route to troops in Afghanistan and has been branded an Al-Qaeda headquarters by Washington. ... more  
Paris (AFP) Feb 18, 2010Yvo de Boer, who said Thursday he would quit the UN's top climate post on July 1, drew fire from all sides during his more than three-year tenure. From the sidelines, he was accused of partisanship, tactical missteps and even lack of charisma. Dubbed the "crying Dutchman" following a brief breakdown at a critical 2007 climate meet in Bali, some critics even called him the "prince of dar ... more |
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Raytheon Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Proves Networked CapabilityNew Dehli (SPX) Feb 17, 2010 Raytheon's Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 completed a major milestone when the weapon's Strike Common Weapon Datalink (SCWDL) communicated via Link-16 nodes with a Joint Surveillance and Target Attack Radar System aircraft. The test demonstrated the weapon's ability to function as a node on the network and moved the system one step closer to engaging moving maritime targets. JSOW is a family of low-cost, air-to-ground weapons that employs an integrated GPS-inertial navigation system and terminal infrar ... read more |
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