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GSLV Broke Up When Connectors SnappedBangalore, India (PTI) Jan 04, 2011 India's heavy rocket broke up midair on Christmas day when onboard connectors that transmit signals snapped inadvertently, the space agency said Friday. "The inadvertent snapping of 10 connectors carrying command signals from the onboard computer to the control electronics of the four strap-on motors in the first stage is the primary cause of the rocket failure," the state-run Indian Space Research Organsiation (ISRO) said in a statement here. The connectors are located beneath the Russian-m ... read more |
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  Portugal takes delivery of second sub Portugal took delivery of the second of two Class 209PN diesel submarines, the NRP Arpao, handed over at the Baltic coast shipyards of Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft. ... more | .. |
  TerraSAR-X Image Of The Month: Ice Flow Like Molten Metal From over 500 kilometres up, as TerraSAR-X looks down on its icy surface, the Antarctic's Nimrod Glacier looks like molten metal. During its flight over the Antarctic, the German Aerospace Centre's ... more | .. |
  Thales-led group wins German radar deal ThalesRaytheonSystems signed a contract worth $133 million with the German BWB defense procurement office to supply six GM 400 air-defense radars. ... more | .. |
 U.S. Navy launches first EMAL plane The U.S. Navy made history this week, launching its first-ever aircraft that uses advanced electromagnetic technology. ... more |
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  Israel still eyeing free F-35s Despite rebuffing U.S. calls for a partial settlement freeze on the occupied Palestinian territories, Israel is still hoping to acquire another 20 U.S.-built F-35 fighter jets free of charge. ... more | .. |
  Critical Global Hawk Sensor Delivered To USAF Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) delivered the first production Multi-Platform Radar Technology Insertion Program (MP-RTIP) sensor to Edwards Air Force Base for integration on the first U.S. ... more | .. |
  First European Missile Successfully Carries Out Ballistic Intercept MBDA is celebrating the total success of an Aster missile firing carried out on 18th October 2010 by the DGA EM (Direction Generale de l'Armement - Essais de Missiles) in the Landes region of France ... more | .. |
 Poland asked US about missile shield uses: WikiLeaks The US told Poland that a proposed American and NATO missile shield aimed at defending against attacks from Iran or Syria could be used to stop "missiles coming from elsewhere," US cables released by WikiLeaks showed Tuesday. ... more |
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 Chilean airline opts for secure upgrade Chile's LAN airline has placed a record purchase order with Airbus for 50 medium-range passenger jets in an acquisitions program aimed at giving passengers confidence Latin American air transportation is safe and secure. ... more | .. |
 TanDEM-X Ready For Routine Operations In 2011 On 14 December 2010, TanDEM-X passed another important milestone: the radar mission's test phase has concluded in less than six months according to plan, paving the way for routine operations - the ... more | .. |
  Israel complains to UN over Gaza rockets Israel and Hamas looked to the United Nations on Wednesday as tensions rose along the volatile Gaza border after a series of Israeli air strikes in response to rocket fire from the strip. ... more | .. |
 Mexico Quake Studies Uncover Surprises For California New technologies developed by NASA and other agencies are revealing surprising insights into a major earthquake that rocked parts of the American Southwest and Mexico in April, including increased p ... more |
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 First MEADS Battle Manager Ready For System Tests The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) program has displayed the first MEADS Battle Manager during ceremonies at MBDA Italia facilities in Fusaro, Italy. The Battle Manager, configured ... more | .. |
  IBCS Completes Warfighter-Centered Design Exercises The U.S. Army and Northrop Grumman have completed a series of warfighter-centered design exercises for the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS). The exercises are pa ... more | .. |
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 Palestinian negotiator says peace process in 'deep coma' A Palestinian negotiator late Saturday said the peace process with Israel was in a "deep coma" and that US proposals for resuming talks were "totally useless". ... more |
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 Meet Britain's new sub-sea war machine It can hit enemies more than 1,200 miles away, its nuclear reactor could power an entire city and it makes less noise than a baby dolphin - meet HMS Ambush, Britain's new super submarine. ... more | .. |
  Seismic stress said moving toward LA Scientists say a 7.2 magnitude Easter earthquake south of the U.S.-Mexico border shifted fault stress to Southern California, creating risks of a temblor there. ... more | .. |
  Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano On Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock. Topography and surface composition data hav ... more | .. |
 IRIS Passes Critical Design Review The Lockheed Martin team, awarded a contract by NASA in 2009 to design and build the agency's next Small Explorer Mission (SMEX) called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), has met the ... more |
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 Arianespace To Launch ESA's First Sentinel Satellite ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract for the launch of Sentinel-1A, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. ... more | .. |
 Israel wants F-35s despite snubbing Obama Despite torpedoing U.S. President Barack Obama's Middle East peace drive, Israel is still trying to sweet-talk Washington into providing 20 F-35 stealth fighters it promised free of charge in return for a settlements freeze in the occupied West Bank. ... more | .. |
Israel steps up its spy games in Lebanon Middle East tensions went up a notch after the Lebanese military found Israeli electronic surveillance devices on two strategic mountains and the Israeli military reportedly destroyed a third device in the Mediterranean off southern Lebanon. ... more | .. |
  Solar Scientists Discover Physical Mechanism Behind Sympathetic Flares A serendipitous alignment of high-powered spaceborne solar instruments has finally provided the data allowing scientists to uncover the physical mechanism behind so-called "sympathetic flares" on th ... more |
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