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India's missile shield test fails: officialsBhubaneswar, India (AFP) March 15, 2010 India's homegrown interceptor defence shield developed to detect and destroy incoming ballistic missiles failed during a test on Monday, military officials said. The test was abandoned when the radars following the target, a nuclear-capable missile, lost track of it after it blasted off from a site 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Bhubaneswar in eastern India. "The 'hostile' missile went off the radars after it took off and deviated from its trajectory and so the interceptor was not launched," an ... read more |
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Beijing (UPI) Mar 5, 2009 China is scaling back defense budget growth to 7.5 percent and telling its neighbors not to worry about its military buildup. The Chinese defense budget for 2010 is to be around $78 billion, said Li Zhaoxing, spokesman for the National People's Congress, an annual two-week congregation of its 3,000 members. The result is an increase in spending about half the usual military budge ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Mar 5, 2009 The two-year delay in the production of Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and the cost increase this will entail could jeopardize a crucial deal with Israel for 75 of the stealthy fifth-generation fighter. The Israeli air force wants the aircraft as quickly as possible - providing the price is right - to counter the military threat it believes Iran poses through its alleged ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 08, 2010Planetary scientists have been puzzling for years over the honeycomb patterns and flat valleys with squiggly edges evident in radar images of Saturn's moon Titan. Now, working with a "volunteer researcher" who has put his own spin on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, they have found some recognizable analogies to a type of spectacular terrain on Earth known as karst topography. At a poster se ... more |
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TerraSAR-X Images International Space StationBonn, Germany (SPX) Mar 05, 2010 On 13 March 2008, the International Space Station (ISS) passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 195 kilometres (122 miles) and at a relative speed of 34,540 kilometres per hour (over 22,000 mph). The encounter lasted for about three seconds, but this brief moment was long enough for the synthetic aperture radar on TerraSAR-X to acquire an image of the ISS, a structure measuring about 110 metres by 100 metres by 30 metres. Just a few ... read more |
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