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Iceberg Collides With The Edge Of An Ice Shelf In The AntarcticBonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 03, 2010 Looking like a needle of ice and snow, iceberg B-15K was caught in the act by the German Aerospace Center's (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) TerraSAR-X satellite as it collided with an ice shelf in Atka Bay, Antarctica. Scientists had long been observing as the 54-kilometre long and 5-kilometre wide iceberg was driven around Antarctica by ocean currents. Then, on 11 February 2010, it crashed into the edge of the ice shelf in Atka Bay. A 300 by 700 metre piece broke off from t ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) Feb 19, 2010The launch next week of a European satellite designed to monitor the response of icesheets to climate change has been delayed by a technical worry, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday. CryoSat-2 had been scheduled to be launched from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan next Thursday. The operation "has been delayed due to a concern related to the second stage steering e ... more  
Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 22, 2010William E. Gordon, founder of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, died Feb. 16 at his home in Ithaca. He was 92. Gordon was the Walter R. Reed Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell in 1958 when he began designing the radio telescope to study the Earth's upper atmosphere and nearby space. Built in the limestone hills of northwest Puerto Rico and funded by the U.S. Defense Advan ... more  
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 19, 2010A brother of Al-Qaeda-linked warlord Sirajuddin Haqqani, whose network is fighting in Afghanistan, has been killed in a US missile attack in Pakistan, officials said Friday. The death of Mohammed Haqqani, who was involved in the Afghan network, in an attack thought to have been targeting his brother will be a symbolic blow to the Haqqani leadership and a further boost for the controversial U ... more |
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Raytheon Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer Completes Critical Design ReviewOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 19, 2010 Raytheon's Miniature Air Launched Decoy Jammer (MALD-J) variant completed a major milestone when it passed a U.S. Air Force critical design review (CDR). MALD is a state-of-the-art, low-cost, decoy flight vehicle that is modular, air-launched and programmable. It weighs less than 300 pounds and has a range of approximately 500 nautical miles (about 575 statute miles). The MALD-J adds radar-jamming capability to the basic MALD platform. "The men and women of Raytheon have every right to ... read more |
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