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TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: The Nazca Lines In PeruBonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 06, 2010 From the ground, the famous Nazca lines in Peru don't look like much. It is only when you look at them from a height that the mysterious drawings on the stony desert floor come to life. The German Aerospace Center, TerraSAR-X radar satellite has seen them from space, providing a new view of this 2000-year-old World Heritage Site. The geoglyphs show up as dark grooves in the ground in the vicinity of the small town of Palpa - which can be seen as a set of lighter dots in the picture. They can be se ... read more |
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Linthicum MD (SPX) Jun 23, 2010Northrop Grumman Corporation has marked a significant milestone in the development of advanced surface warfare radars with the successful live outdoor testing of the company's S-band radar testbed. Northrop Grumman successfully conducted live outdoor testing at the company's Linthicum test range, tracking aircraft and other targets of opportunity with its S-band radar testbed, while demons ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jun 23, 2010 As tension with Iran grows daily, Israel has launched a new spy satellite that the military says has "unprecedented operational capabilities." Hype or not, the 650-pound Ofek 9 will join at least two other Israeli surveillance satellites beaming their high-resolution cameras on Iran's nuclear program and its growing strategic missile forces - much to Tehran's annoyance. The anno ... more  
Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (SPX) Jun 22, 2010Germany's second Earth observation satellite, TanDEM-X, was launched successfully on 21 June 2010 at 04:14 Central European Summer Time (CEST, at 08:14 local time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Atop a Russian Dnepr rocket, the satellite, weighing more than 1.3 tons and five metres in length, started its journey into orbit. At 4.45 CEST first signal was received via Troll grou ... more |
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Turkey 'freezes arms deals with Israel'Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jun 18, 2010 Turkey is reported to have frozen at least 16 arms deals with Israel worth an estimated $56 billion, including missile projects and upgrading combat aircraft and tanks, in a major escalation of its confrontation with the Jewish state. The Turkish newspaper Today's Zaman reported Friday that the contracts were suspended after the Israeli government refused to apologize for the May 31 killing of nine Turks when Israeli naval commandos stormed the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish-flagged vessel carrying hu ... read more |
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