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Prolific NASA Orbiter Reaches Five-Year MarkPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 10, 2011 NASA's versatile Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which began orbiting Mars five years ago on March 10, has radically expanded our knowledge of the Red Planet and is now working overtime. The mission has provided copious information about ancient environments, ice-age-scale climate cycles and present-day changes on Mars. The orbiter observes Mars' surface, subsurface and atmosphere in unprecedented detail. The spacecraft's large solar panels and dish antenna have enabled it to transmit more data ... read more |
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  NASA And Other Satellites Keeping Busy With This Week's Severe Weather Satellites have been busy this week covering severe weather across the U.S. Today, the GOES-13 satellite and NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of the huge stretch of clouds associated with a h ... more | .. |
  Milestone Nears For European Missile Defense Plan The U.S. plan to defend Europe from a rapidly increasing ballistic missile threat will reach a milestone next week with the first deployment of missile defense technology, a senior Defense Departmen ... more | .. |
  New Design Of Through-Wall Radar Enables Increased Covert Surveillance Leading technology product design and development firm, Cambridge Consultants, has launched the latest evolution of its popular Prism through-wall radar product line. The Prism 200c is a lightweight ... more | .. |
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 NASA Warns Ice Melt Speeding Up The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, according to a new NASA-funded satellite study. The findings of the study - the longest to date of changes in polar ic ... more | .. |
  UK Technology Scans The Skies For Space Hazards UK space surveillance technology is being used in ESA's first co-ordinated space tracking campaign - part of a larger programme to provide up to date and accurate information on space hazards in Ear ... more | .. |
  Improved Method Developed To Locate Ships In Storms There are already systems that detect ships at sea, but a group of engineers from the UAH, led by the researcher Raul Vicen, has introduced a new development, involving "the use of artificial intell ... more | .. |
  Premature to arm Libya rebels: White House The United States said Monday it was considering whether to arm the Libyan opposition but said it would be premature to do so now, amid rising pressure on the White House over the crisis. ... more |
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Aalyria spacetime platform tapped for AFRL space data network trials
Atomic 6 debris shields selected for Portal Space Systems mission
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 Sukhoi flies second T-50 prototype The second T-50 fighter prototype by Russia's Sukhoi Co. successfully completed its first flight for testing of its stability and propulsion system. ... more | .. |
  Full-Speed Ahead For MASS To protect their fleets from missile attacks, the navies of Peru, Finland and Germany have all ordered MASS, Rheinmetall's "Multi Ammunition Softkill System", a state-of-the-art decoy system for pro ... more | .. |
  Some Antarctic Ice Is Forming From Bottom Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent's coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as much as ... more | .. |
  Mozambique police deny Swazi arms shipment report Mozambican police denied Saturday that Swaziland tried to import two containers of arms through Mozambique, after Swazi dissidents accused the neighbouring country of aiding "a possible bloodbath." ... more |
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  Second Successful PAC-3 MSE Intercept Flight Test Lockheed Martin's enhanced version of the combat-proven PAC-3 Missile, the PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE), successfully intercepted a threat representative tactical ballistic missile target ... more | .. |
 250th APG-79 AESA Radar Delivered Raytheon has delivered its 250th APG-79 active electronically scanned array radar to Boeing. The APG-79 radar is flown on U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F and EA-18G aircraft, and on the Royal Australian Air For ... more | .. |
  South Korea drops joint command plan The South Korean Defense Ministry won't go ahead with its planned Joint Forces Command changes in its command structure, a ministry official said. ... more | .. |
 U.S. Navy gets Raytheon targeting system U.S. electronics giant Raytheon has won a $50 million contract to supply the U.S. Navy with multi-spectral targeting systems. ... more |
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Hydrogen nuclei experiment sharpens view of quarks inside matter
Oak Ridge team plans powerful test facility for next generation fusion components
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UN suspects Zimbabwe over I. Coast arms embargo UN experts are investigating suspected sanctions-busting arms deliveries from Zimbabwe to Ivory Coast strongman Laurent Gbagbo, according to a UN report. ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Adds More C4ISR Systems Into Airborne Intel Lab Rockwell Collins and DRS Defense Solutions have been added to the growing list of companies with C4ISR products integrated into Lockheed Martin's Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory, or AML. ... more | .. |
 Big chunks of Antarctic ice form beneath glaciers An international team of scientists has discovered that masses of ice in the Antarctic form underneath the ice sheet instead of on top, according to a study published Thursday. ... more | .. |
  China's "Fantastic Four" Moon Plan Since 2010, this author has pursued the story that China was planning four missions to land on the Moon this decade. The idea was a big change from our earlier understanding of China's Moon plans, w ... more |
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 Satellite Remote Sensing: Light Detection And Ranging The Next Big Thing The power of Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is rising to new heights as a satellite remote sensing tool used to collect topographic data. LiDAR is emerging as the next big thing - allowing user ... more | .. |
 NATO allies debate Libya military option As US warships entered the Mediterrenean Wednesday, NATO allies were divided on whether to use military might in Libya while Moamer Kadhafi warned that any Western foray would leave thousands dead. ... more | .. |
 S.Korea to get first high-altitude spy plane South Korea will start receiving advanced surveillance planes from US aircraft giant Boeing this year, officials said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
Israel's new anti-tank system tested A new defense system for Israeli tanks has successfully shot down a missile attack on Israel's border with Gaza, an army statement says. ... more |
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Ancient nitrogen enzyme study illuminates early Earth conditions and life detection
Cleaner ship fuel is reducing lightning in key shipping lanes, research finds
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 Ship to bolster Europe's missile defenses: US The US military will send a warship to the Mediterranean next week as a first step in a defense shield to protect Europe from a potential strike from Iran's missile arsenal, a defense official said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Libya no-fly zone would require bombing raids: US Enforcing a no-fly zone over Libya would first require bombing the north African nation's air defense systems, top US commander General James Mattis warned Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  Libya arms bans will hit Europeans The arms embargoes slapped on Libya by the United Nations and the European Union could cost international defense companies, particularly those in Europe and Russia, billions of dollars. ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Images New Zealand Quake Region A day after a powerful magnitude 6.3 earthquake rocked Christchurch, a city of 377,000 on New Zealand's South Island, on Feb. 22, 2011, the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiom ... more |
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  New Kind Of Optical Fiber Developed A team of scientists led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has developed the very first optical fiber made with a core of zinc selenide - a light-yellow compound th ... more | .. |
 Iran To Build Advanced Fighter Jet The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force has launched a project to design and build the country's most advanced fighter jet, the English language satellite Press TV reported Sunday. Brigadier Ge ... more | .. |
 Russia proceeds with missile sale to Syria Russia has signaled its intent to press ahead with plans to supply Syria with Yakhont supersonic cruise missiles. ... more | .. |
 Russia vows to sell missiles to Syria Russia vowed Saturday to fulfil its contract to supply Syria with cruise missiles despite the turmoil shaking the Arab world and Israel's furious condemnation of the deal. ... more |
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