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TanDEM-X Answers Its First Call For Crisis AssistanceBonn, Germany (SPX) Aug 17, 2010 Satellite data is an indispensable tool for quickly assessment of the situation in cases of natural or environmental disasters and for guiding emergency teams on ground. DLR's 'Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information' and many other international organizations have been using the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X for three years to rapidly obtain reliable data in all weather conditions for such crisis situations. Now, our new satellite, TanDEM-X, has also provided assistance for the first ti ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Aug 10, 2010In less than two weeks, NASA scientists will begin their quest for the holy grail of hurricane research. The exact conditions required to kickstart a tropical depression into a hurricane largely remain a mystery. Though scientists know many of the ingredients needed, it is unclear what processes ultimately drive depressions to form into the intense, spinning storms that lash the U.S. coast ... more  
Washington (UPI) Aug 9, 2010 First the country of 180 million was rocked by the flood of thousands of WikiLeaks documents that gave credence to claims that Pakistan isn't only funding and arming the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan but is also playing an operational role directing specific attacks against U.S. and NATO forces. Then, in quick succession, Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in the country's 63-year ... more  
Moscow (UPI) Aug 9, 2010 Since the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, one of the Russian Federation's biggest concerns has been to replace the Soviet Union's unified aerial radar surveillance capacities. The goal is closer because of a recent meeting of Commonwealth of Independent States in Minsk to integrate use of the Parol', or "Password," Unified System of State Radar Identification between CIS member state ... more |
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NKorea deploys anti-aircraft missiles as wargame tensions mountSeoul (AFP) Aug 4, 2010 North Korea moved long-range anti-aircraft missiles close to the border with South Korea as tensions rose over the sinking of one of Seoul's warships, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Chosun Ilbo quoted a military source as saying the North moved some SA-5 missiles from the southwestern province of Hwanghae to areas near the border, where they pose a potential threat to South Korean jets. The missiles were repositioned around the time when the corvette sank in March, it said. A Joint Chiefs of St ... read more |
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