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Australia Super Hornet program moves aheadCanberra, Australia (UPI) Oct 21, 2010 The Australian air force will take delivery of another three Super Hornet fighter jets by the end of the year, boosting its fleet to 14. "Super Hornets are on-schedule and under budget," Minister for Defense Materiel Jason Clare said. "They will add to the fire power of our air force, taking our air capability to the next generation of fighter plane." The purchase of the Boeing Super Hornets - 24 in all - is bridging strategy within Australia's air defense capability, authoritie ... read more |
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  A New Pair Of Glasses To View Earth Our view of Earth is set to become even sharper with new instruments to be carried on ESA's Sentinel-3 satellites. In many ways, it will be like looking at Earth through a new pair of glasses. ... more | .. |
  US oil spill hit a key tuna spawning site: agency Numbers of juvenile Atlantic tuna at a major spawning site in the Gulf of Mexico probably fell by at least a fifth this year as a result of the BP oil spill, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Mon ... more | .. |
  TerraSAR-X And TanDEM-X Flying In Close Formation The German Aerospace Center and the space company Astrium have recently taken an important step forward in their mission to create a three-dimensional map of the world. On 14 October 2010, the ... more | .. |
  France, Germany offer hand to Russia at seaside summit French President Nicolas Sarkozy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russian President Dimitry Medvedev launched talks Monday on building a pan-European security partnership. Their summit bega ... more | .. |
Satellites join up to map Earth Two German satellites orbiting within 380 yards of each other are preparing to create the most detailed map ever made of Earth's entire surface, officials said. The radar satellites TanDEM-X and ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2010The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused more than 200,000 casualties and devastated Haiti's economy in January resulted not from the Enriquillo fault, as previously believed, but from slip on multiple faults - primarily a previously unknown, subsurface fault - according to a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. In addition, because the earthquake did not involve slip nea ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 17, 2010In the next 40 years, an unprecedented number of women will be in positions of power, Muslim immigration to the West will rise, and office workers will be unchained from their cubicles, a report released last week says. South America will see sustained economic growth and the Middle East will become "a tangle of religions, sects and ethnicities," says the report by Toffler Associates, a cons ... more  
Baku, Azerbaijan (UPI) Oct 13, 2010 Oil-rich Azerbaijan hopes to nearly double its defense spending to $3.1 billion next year to boost its military capabilities, senior officials said. Azeri Finance Minister Samir Sharifov said the plans would increase the defense budget by 89.7 percent, explaining that roughly half of the amount would be spent directly on the purchase of state of the art military hardware while the rest ... more |
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Study: Glaciers protected Antarctic rangePasadena, Calif. (UPI) Oct 15, 2010 An Antarctic mountain range, buried in ice and out of view, has escaped the erosion experienced by other mountain ranges on Earth, U. S. researchers say. The Gamburtsev Mountains are evidence of a counterintuitive theory that glaciers don't always carve down and erode mountains but can in certain conditions protect them, ScienceNews.org reported Friday. "It's feasible for topography to be preserved," Stephen Cox, a graduate student at Caltech and coauthor of a study paper, says. T ... read more |
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