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LockMart Scientists Discover Mechanism That Could Feed Solar ExplosionsPalo Alto CA (SPX) Apr 15, 2011 Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are violent solar explosions that can propel up to 10 billion tons of the Sun's atmosphere - at a million miles an hour - out through the corona and into space. These fast, powerful ejections can take as little as 18 hours to reach Earth and give rise to geomagnetic storms, which can disrupt radio transmissions, induce large currents in power lines and oil pipelines, seriously disrupt spacecraft and be extremely hazardous to astronauts. New instruments on advanced spa ... read more |
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  Raytheon Delivers First Phalanx to Republic of Korea Navy Raytheon has delivered the first Phalanx Close-In Weapon System to the Republic of Korea Navy for batch one of the new Ulsan-1 class FFX ship program. The direct commercial sale calls for the ... more | .. |
  ESA Arctic Ice Campaign Takes Off To guarantee ESA's CryoSat mission is delivering the best data possible, scientists have set out on a major expedition to the Arctic - part of a collaborative effort between ESA and NASA to gather i ... more | .. |
  MLD Test Moves Navy A Step Closer To Lasers For Ship Self-Defense Marking a milestone for the Navy, the Office of Naval Research and its industry partner have successfully tested a solid-state, high-energy laser (HEL) from a surface ship, which disabled a small ta ... more | .. |
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  Raytheon Delivers Record Number of Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles Raytheon Missile Systems business delivered a record number of Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles last year. The company's delivery of 366 ESSMs in 2010 more than doubled the previous year's total. " ... more | .. |
  Obama urged to limit Russia missile shield sway President Barack Obama must beat back any Russian demands for "red-button" sway over a missile shield in Europe and deny Moscow access to sensitive data tied to the program, US senators urged Thursday. ... more | .. |
  LockMart And Atmos To Pursue Brazil Air Surveillance Radar Program Lockheed Martin and Atmos Sistemas have signed a teaming agreement to pursue the Brazilian Air Force's future Three-Dimensional (3-D) Long-Range Radar procurement program, which seeks to upgrade and ... more | .. |
 Fire Control Radar Completes Target-Of-Opportunity Tracking Raytheon's JLENS (Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Defense Elevated Netted Sensor System) has successfully demonstrated tracking targets of opportunity in the Salt Lake City air space. Testing and i ... more |
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Stratolaunch secures major funding to scale hypersonic flight services
Orion to advance IARPA system for tracking small space debris
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 Elbit To Showcase Maritime Capability Solutions Elbit Systems of America will present an array of cutting edge solutions, designed to enhance the capabilities of expeditionary, irregular warfare, and special operations forces at the upcoming Navy ... more | .. |
  US says fighters still bombing Libya air defenses US fighter jets are still carrying out bombing raids on Libya's air defenses, the Pentagon said Wednesday, days after indicating American combat aircraft had withdrawn from NATO operations. ... more | .. |
 Libya rebels urge NATO to step up air strikes Libyan rebels' foreign relations chief Ali al-Essawi urged NATO to step up air strikes on Moamer Kadhafi's tanks and missile sites, at an international meeting in Doha on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 PEO Ammo Picks Up 155mm Lightweight Howitzer Program The Program Executive Office for Ammunition has expanded to add towed artillery systems to the growing list of products that it manages for the military. On Jan. 20, Army Acquisition Executive ... more |
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 Arctic Sea Ice Flights Near Completion Operation IceBridge, NASA's airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is amid its fourth week of flights for the Arctic 2011 campaign. Researchers and crew successfully completed flights from Thule, Gr ... more | .. |
 Gallium Nitride-Based Modules Set New 180-Day Standard For High Power Operation Northrop Grumman has set a new standard for its gallium nitride-based high power transmit/receive (T/R) modules by reliably operating them for more than 180 days during continuous high-power testing ... more | .. |
 Israel's missile shield makes history The initial success of the Iron Dome anti-missile system built by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems in shooting down Hamas rockets fired at southern Israeli cities is a potential gamechanger against the Palestinians and probably against Hezbollah in Lebanon as well. ... more | .. |
  Titan Shaped By Weather Not Ice Volcanoes Have the surface and belly of Saturn's smog-shrouded moon, Titan, recently simmered like a chilly, bubbling cauldron with ice volcanoes, or has this distant moon gone cold? In a newly published anal ... more |
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Keck backed team advances first graviton detector concept
Trump offers Egypt to mediate on Ethiopia dam
US to repeal the basis for its climate rules: What to know | .. |
 US Navy And Northrop Grumman Accomplish Goals For At-Sea Demonstration Of Maritime Laser The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman have successfully demonstrated high-energy, solid-state laser defenses at sea by completing a "counter-material" test of the Maritime Laser Demonstrator (MLD) agai ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Awarded $42 Million For Next-Generation Standard Missile-3 Interceptor Raytheon has been awarded $42 million for the initial concept development and program planning for the Standard Missile-3 Block IIB, which is the Missile Defense Agency's next-generation Aegis missi ... more | .. |
  For NASA's Aquarius, Quest For Salt A Global Endeavor With more than a few stamps on its passport, NASA's Aquarius instrument on the Argentinian Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC)-D spacecraft will soon embark on its space mission to "taste" Ea ... more | .. |
  Force Of Acoustical Waves Tapped For Metamaterials A very simple bench-top technique that uses the force of acoustical waves to create a variety of 3D structures will benefit the rapidly expanding field of metamaterials and their myriad applications ... more |
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 First Consistent Geological Interpretation Of East Africa Rift System Astrium GEO-Information Services has completed a geological interpretation study of the East Africa Rift System (EARS) and the surrounding area that is increasingly becoming an exploration hotspot f ... more | .. |
 Cobra Judy Replacement Team Completes Radar Delivery Milestone Raytheon and Northrop Grumman recently completed a significant milestone for the Cobra Judy Replacement program. The CJR S-band active phased-array antenna was successfully delivered to the CJR inte ... more | .. |
  Eurofighter back in Danish jet competition The Eurofighter consortium wants back into the race to outfit Denmark's armed forces with a new fighter jet. ... more | .. |
 NASA Airborne Radar Set To Image Hawaiian Volcano The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. A NASA ... more |
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Cleaner ship fuel is reducing lightning in key shipping lanes, research finds
Solar cycles seen in Antarctic fast ice history
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  Bob Dylan makes China debut Counter-culture legend Bob Dylan made his long-awaited China debut Wednesday after finally getting approval to bring his charged songs of protest and struggle to a nation where dissent is muzzled. ... more | .. |
 NEW-HIP Program Advances Avionics Networks Modern military aircraft are burdened with miles of heavily shielded copper wire cables that connect a multitude of components. This cabling is heavy and subject to deterioration due to harsh enviro ... more | .. |
 Small Diameter Bomb II Program Completes CDR Raytheon's Small Diameter Bomb II program completed a U.S. Air Force critical design review (CDR), clearing the way for the weapon to begin captive flight testing later this year. "Raytheon's ... more | .. |
 Israel to deploy four more 'Iron Dome' anti-rocket defences Israel is planning to deploy four more batteries of its "Iron Dome" short-range missile defence system, Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday. ... more |
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  Euro Hawk Undergoes Testing At Edwards AFB Engineers with the 772nd Test Squadron facilitated electromagnetic interference testing on a Euro Hawk unmanned aircraft at the Benefield Anechoic Facility here March 10 and 11. They teamed wi ... more | .. |
 NASA Airborne Radar Set to Image Hawaiian Volcano The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. A NASA ... more | .. |
 New Laser Technology Could Revolutionize Communications As fiber optic technology continues to advance, it faces challenges from both its physical properties and its use of infrastructure. One emerging high-speed solution being developed at Stevens Insti ... more | .. |
  A Fallen Giant: The Soviet Space Industry Ordinary Russians see little connection between space exploration and economics. If anything, they see expensive space programs as a permanent drain on the nation's resources. Some are inclined to t ... more |
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