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TanDEM-X Sends Its First Images In Record TimeBonn, Germany (SPX) Jun 28, 2010 Already, with its first image acquisitions, TanDEM-X (TerraSAR-X add-on for Digital Elevation Measurement) has surpassed its twin satellite, TerraSAR-X. On 24 June 2010, only 3 days and 14 hours into the mission, the satellite sent its first image data back to Earth. The transmission was received by the German Aerospace Center ground station at Neustrelitz and processed to produce images. TanDEM-X looked down from an altitude of more than 500 kilometres above northern Madagascar, Ukraine and Mosco ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 16, 2010Engineers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are running diverse trials with a test version of the radar system that will enable NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission to put the Curiosity rover onto the Martian surface in August 2012. One set of tests conducted over a desert lakebed at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., in May 2010 used flights wi ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 16, 2010The Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL's) Space Science Division is performing an intensive study of the Earth's upper atmosphere using a flotilla of NRL-built spaceflight experiments aboard four concurrent spaceflight missions, involving five satellites and the International Space Station. These coordinated observations utilize both in situ and remote sensors to measure the composition, tem ... more  
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (UPI) Jun 15, 2010 Saudi Arabia, increasingly fearful of the threat from expansionist Iran, has launched a major upgrade its fleet of more than 150 Boeing F-15 strike aircraft. The move is part of a general drive by the Persian Gulf Arab states to bolster their military forces to counter Iran's growing arsenal of ballistic missiles. Saudi Arabia and its partners on Iran's doorstep, along the wester ... more |
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ThalesRaytheonSystems Awarded Contract To Modernize Sentinel RadarsFullerton CA (SPX) Jun 15, 2010 ThalesRaytheonSystems has been awarded a $21.8 million contract by the U.S. Army to upgrade multiple AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel air defense radar systems. This award is an option to the existing upgrade contract originally awarded in June 2007. The contract will upgrade the U.S. Army Sentinel radar transmitters, receivers and exciters and increase functional capabilities such as faster data processing and greater detection range for smaller targets. Additional capabilities will also help minimize in ... read more |
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