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Sorting The Space TrashSydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 24, 2010 We all sort our rubbish by category, allowing recycling to take place. It's easy to understand why. Different items require different processes for disposal. For years, we have been growing increasingly aware of the trash problem in low Earth orbit. Debris from whole satellites to tiny flecks of paint poses a hazard to anything we launch. It can damage spacecraft or even claim lives. With more people expected to travel into space in the years ahead, and plans being drawn for even more infrastructu ... read more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2010Northrop Grumman's AN/AAQ-37 Electro-Optical Distributed Aperture System (DAS) for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter successfully detected and tracked a two-stage rocket launch at a distance exceeding 800 miles during a routine flight test conducted aboard the company's BAC 1-11 test bed aircraft. "The DAS could fill critical capability gaps in the area of ballistic missile defens ... more  
Glasgow, UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2010Scarborough, the second of three Offshore Patrol Vessels built by BAE Systems for the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, has successfully completed sea trials off the west coast of Scotland and is on track to be delivered in October. Named after Tobago's capital, Scarborough embarked on an extensive programme of trials in July, with a combined BAE Systems and Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard ... more  
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Sep 09, 2010What works on a small scale also works on a large scale. For the last several years, a helicopter-mounted measuring instrument developed by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has been hard at work detecting methane leaks from natural gas pipelines. From 2014, a similar instrument will be used on a German/French satellite orbiting Earth at an altitu ... more |
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Earth From Space: Giant Iceberg Enters Nares StraitParis, France (ESA) Sep 06, 2010 ESA's Envisat satellite has been tracking the progression of the giant iceberg that calved from Greenland's Petermann glacier on 4 August 2010. This animation shows that the iceberg, the largest in the northern hemisphere, is now entering Nares Strait - a stretch of water that connects the Lincoln Sea and Arctic Ocean with Baffin Bay. The Petermann glacier in northern Greenland is one of the largest of the country's glaciers - and until August it had a 70 km tongue of floating ice extending out in ... read more |
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