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ESA's Ice Mission Goes LiveParis, France (ESA) Nov 23, 2010 With the commissioning of ESA's CryoSat now complete, the mission has been officially transferred to the operations team. This milestone marks the beginning of the satellite's operational life delivering ice-thickness data to understand the impact of climate change on the polar environment. The handover ceremony took place on 19 November at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands, where the responsibility for the mission passed from CryoSat-2's Project Manage ... read more |
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  Medvedev wants missile defence carve-up of Europe: reports Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has proposed to NATO leaders that Europe be divided into sectors of military responsibility to better protect the continent from missile attack, reports said Monday. ... more | .. |
  ULA And US Air Force Launch NRO Satellite The United Launch Alliance and the US Air Force have launched a top secret satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office using a Delta 4 heavy launch vehicle. The launch was delayed until Sunday night. Using Lau ... more | .. |
  Thales Alenia Space And OHB-System Sign MTG Contract With ESA Thales Alenia Space, the Prime Contractor, and its partner OHB-System, have announced the signature of an Authorization To Proceed (ATP) with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Meteosat Third G ... more | .. |
 LockMart Submits Bid For Space Fence Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal for the next phase of Space Fence, a program that will revamp the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks objects in space. Space Fence will use ... more |
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  Danger zone reduced as Indonesian eruption weakens The deadly eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi has weakened allowing the government to further reduce the restriction zone around the mountain, a volcanologist said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Months Of Geologic Unrest Signaled Reawakening Of Icelandic Volcano Months of volcanic restlessness preceded the eruptions this spring of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, providing insight into what roused it from centuries of slumber. An international team ... more | .. |
 Medvedev to present missile defence vision at NATO: Kremlin President Dmitry Medvedev will lay out his vision for joint missile defence with the West when he addresses the weekend NATO summit, a top Kremlin official said in comments released Friday. ... more | .. |
  Afghan exit in 2014 an 'aspirational goal': US The Pentagon on Thursday said a plan for US-led troops to hand over security to Afghan forces in 2014 represents an "aspirational goal" and not a rigid deadline. ... more |
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  Pakistan to arm fighter jets with Chinese missiles Pakistan has confirmed it will buy Chinese missiles and flight systems to equip its 250 JF-17 Thunder jet fighters as it seeks to deepen military cooperation with Beijing, state media said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  A former Soviet carrier's Chinese odyssey Foreign military experts believe a 300-metre-long vessel being refurbished in the northeastern Chinese port of Dalian is destined to sail as the country's first aircraft carrier. ... more | .. |
  Sonar System Inspired By Dolphins Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed a new kind of underwater sonar device that can detect objects through bubble clouds that would effectively blind standard sonar. Just ... more | .. |
 U.S. Army upgrades force tracking system The U.S Army says it is proceeding with technical upgrades to its force tracking system making it as much ten times faster than the existing system. ... more |
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 Raytheon Awarded Contract For Aegis Production The U.S. Navy awarded Raytheon $240 million for production and delivery of critical components of the Aegis weapons system for the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers. Under the contract, Raythe ... more | .. |
  Selex Galileo Unveils The Mirach 100/X An intensive research and development programme that included project, modelling, simulation and test activities has borne fruit in the form of the Mirach 100/X Aerial Target, unveiled today by defe ... more | .. |
 More Americans oppose war in Afghanistan: poll More Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan than support it, a new poll showed Thursday, the latest sign of waning public backing for the US-led mission. ... more | .. |
  Emirates boost U.S. arms purchases The U.S. Department of Defense plans to sell the United Arab Emirates 60 Boeing AH-64D Apache strike helicopters worth $5 billion - even as Washington turns up the heat on the Persian Gulf state to curb trade with Iran. ... more |
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  Northrop Grumman Bids for Marine Corps Common Aviation CnC Northrop Grumman has submitted its proposal for the demonstration contract for the U.S. Marine Corps Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) Phase 2 sensor data subsystem. The CAC2S ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Bids For Next Gen Aegis Missile Contract Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal to the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the concept definition and program planning contract for the Next-Generation Aegis Missile. The Next-Generatio ... more | .. |
  ULA Launches 350th Delta For the 350th time in its illustrious 50-year program history, a Delta rocket launched from U.S. soil, adding another chapter to one of the most successful rocket launch programs in American history ... more | .. |
 EOS Welcomes Australian-US Partnership To Track Space Junk An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems (EOS) on Wednesday welcomed the joint Australian-U.S. partnership to boost tracking of space debris. A leader in the field of space tracking, EOS has bee ... more |
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 Pentagon says vapor trail from an aircraft, not a missile The Pentagon said Wednesday it is satisfied an aircraft - and not a missile - was the source of a vapor trail off Los Angeles this week that sparked fears of a mystery missile launch. ... more | .. |
 NIST Pings Key Material In Sonar, Closes Gap On Structural Mystery Using a neutron beam as a probe, researchers working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have begun to reveal the crystal structure of a compound essential to technologies r ... more | .. |
 Mystery missile vapor trail stumps Pentagon The US military said Tuesday it has detected no launch of a foreign military missile off the coast of California and offered assurances that whatever happened there posed no threat to the United States. ... more | .. |
 Israel halts missile shield deployment Israel's military says it will put its much-touted Iron Dome air-defense system in storage and deploy it only if Hezbollah or Hamas unleash major rocket bombardments. ... more |
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