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China To Launch New Weather Satellite In Coming DaysTaiyuan, China (XNA) Nov 04, 2010 China will launch a new meteorological satellite at an appropriate time in coming days, the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center said in a statement Wednesday. A Long March-4C carrier rocket will carry the satellite, the second of China's Fengyun III series, into space. Preparations for the launch have progressed smoothly, the statement said. span class="BTa">earlier related report br> /span> b>RISAT-1 Launch In 2011 Will Boost Weather Surveillance br> /b>New Delhi (PTI) Oct 29, 2010 - ... read more |
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  LM TRACER Begins Test Flights Aboard Predator B MQ-9 UAS A milestone has been achieved, the first flight of Lockheed Martin's Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar (TRACER) aboard an MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. The milestone ... more | .. |
  IAI Awarded Contract For ELM-2105 Radar Based Border Protection Systems Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has been awarded a contract worth $9 million (USD) to provide a foreign customer with its ELM-2105 radar-based border protection system. The radar, which is p ... more | .. |
  Military Radar Systems Stay On Priority Lists The latest market research on military radar systems shows that the market is a growing and important sector in the defence industry. Even as countries move to reduce defence spending in the face of ... more | .. |
  Airliners fly in face of cyber attack scares Around the world, around the clock, circles of flickering screens keep aircraft apart in the air, ease them gently down to the ground and guide their precious human cargoes off the runway. ... more |
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  SMOS Water Mission Celebrates First Year In Orbit One year ago, ESA's SMOS satellite was launched to improve our knowledge of the water cycle. We are now not only closer to understanding more about Earth, but the novel technology employed by SMOS i ... more | .. |
  Haiti Quake Caused By Unknown Fault Researchers found a previously unmapped fault was responsible for the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti and that the originally blamed fault remains ready to produce a large earthquake. ... more | .. |
  China considering rare earths strategic reserves: report China is considering setting up strategic reserves of 10 minor metals including rare earths, state media said Wednesday, as Beijing moves to tighten control of its supply of the vital minerals. ... more | .. |
  Where Is the New Horizons Centaur Stage When New Horizons launched at 2 p.m. Eastern time on January 19, 2006, its first Atlas V stage and solid rocket boosters fell back to Earth within minutes of launch, never entering orbit. New ... more |
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  Taiwan missile to target Chinese air bases, ports: report Taiwan is developing a potent missile system that can strike airfields and harbours on the mainland, in a bid to nip a Chinese invasion in the bud, local media said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Are public service announcements effective By now, you've probably heard that taking illicit drugs might have the unfortunate effect of frying your brain - especially if you're familiar with the now-cliche 1980s anti-drug ad that elegantly compares drug use to egg frying with the pithy message: ... more | .. |
 South Korea favors short-range missiles South Korea said it favors a joint U.S-Korean missile defense system rather than the United States-led plan involving the purchase of longer range missiles. ... more | .. |
  Japan says succeeds in missile shield test with US A Japanese naval destroyer fired an interceptor missile to shoot down a mock ballistic missile off Hawaii in a test of Japan's missile-defence system, the defence ministry said Friday. ... more |
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 Raytheon Multi-Spectral Targeting Delivers High-Definition Raytheon is upgrading sensors with enhanced target location accuracy and high-definition imaging. "This is an important upgrade for our Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems family of sensors as we ... more | .. |
 Missile Defense Agency Selects Raytheon To Provide New Missile Defense Radar The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon a $190 million fixed price incentive fee contract to construct, integrate and test a new Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance (AN/TPY-2) radar. ... more | .. |
  Space Radar Provides A Taste Of Comet Hartley 2 Exactly one week before the world gets a new look at comet Hartley 2 via NASA's EPOXI mission, observations of the comet by the Arecibo Planetary Radar in Puerto Rico have offered scientists a tanta ... more | .. |
 RISAT-1 Launch In 2011 Will Boost Weather Surveillance India's earth observation capabilities are set to get a boost with the launch of indigenously-developed RISAT-1 early next year. The satellite will be launched in the first half of the next ye ... more |
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 Space Fence Design Moves Into Next Phase Electronic Systems Center officials released a request for proposal announcement Oct. 20, 2010, for the next phase of a program that will revamp the way space objects and debris are identified and t ... more | .. |
  Introducing The A-Train Mention the "A-Train" and most people probably think of the jazz legend Billy Strayhorn or perhaps New York City subway trains - not climate change. However, it turns out that a convoy of "A-Train" ... more | .. |
 Contract Awarded For New Battlefield Radar Requirement ThalesRaytheonSystems has been selected as one of two companies to study the viability of an Omni-Directional Weapon Locating (OWL) radar for the U.S. Army. ThalesRaytheonSystems will develop ... more | .. |
  CASSIDIAN Protects German Navy Ships With Latest ID Systems Cassidian, the recently re-named defence and security pillar of EADS, protects German Navy ships with identification systems to avoid confrontations with unknown aircraft. With the equipping of the ... more |
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  Offshore Wind A Mixed Bag Offshore wind power offers a feasible way for Maryland to help meet its renewable energy goals, but presents some economic and political hurdles, concludes a new study by the University of Maryland ... more | .. |
  First MEADS Intra-Fire Unit Communications Hardware Delivered Lockheed Martin recently delivered the first two intra-fire unit communications hardware components for the tri-national Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS). The two Message Routing Sub ... more | .. |
 New Coherent Doppler Radar For Patrol Vessels And Small Combatants Northrop Grumman has introduced a new family of X-Band Coherent Radar (XBCR) systems designed primarily for offshore patrol vessels (OPV) and other smaller combat ship platforms. The SeaGuard ... more | .. |
  NASA Airborne Science Campaign Begins Antarctic Sequel Scientists returned this week to the Southern Hemisphere where NASA's Operation IceBridge mission is set to begin its second year of airborne surveys over Antarctica. The mission monitors the region ... more |
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