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Age of Aquarius Dawns With California LaunchPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 10, 2011 NASA's 'Age of Aquarius' dawned Friday with the launch of an international satellite carrying the agency-built Aquarius instrument that will measure the saltiness of Earth's oceans to advance our understanding of the global water cycle and improve climate forecasts. The Aquarius/SAC-D observatory rocketed into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California atop a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket at 7:20:13 a.m. PDT (10:20:13 a.m. EDT). Less than 57 minutes later, the observatory separate ... read more |
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  Satellite Takes 3-Billionth 'Photo' For a satellite that's only five years old, CALIPSO has accomplished a lot. The Earth-observing spacecraft took its three-billionth photo - actually a "lidar profile" - on June 2. June 7 marke ... more | .. |
 NASA's infrared image of major Hurricane Adrian reveals its stormy life's blood Strong thunderstorms are the life's blood of tropical cyclones, and infrared and radar satellite data from NASA confirms that the eastern Pacific Ocean's first hurricane has plenty of them and they' ... more | .. |
  Seoul deploys second Aegis destroyer The South Korean navy has officially deployed its second Aegis destroyer, Yulgok Yi I, into service after the successful completion of nine months of sea trials. ... more | .. |
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  Heron One achieves full operational capability in ISAF mission In recent years, unmanned aerial systems have been playing an increasingly important role in military operations worldwide. Many of the sensors used in modern network-enabled operations are mounted ... more | .. |
  Advanced Firefinder Radar System Supporting US Troops ThalesRaytheonSystems has announced that advanced Firefinder radars have been fielded in theater supporting and protecting U.S. troops and allies. Reliability and maintainability improvements have b ... more | .. |
  Walker's World: Future energy wars Five squadrons of unmanned drones are launched from scattered containers ships in the Mediterranean and off the northwest African coast. Too low to be seen by radar, they fly over the beaches and into the desert, each aiming for one of the giant arrays of mirrors that provide the backbone of Europe's solar energy supply. ... more | .. |
 New NASA Map Reveals Tropical Forest Carbon Storage A NASA-led research team has used a variety of NASA satellite data to create the most precise map ever produced depicting the amount and location of carbon stored in Earth's tropical forests. The da ... more |
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Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts
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 Satellite and Radar Data Reveal Damage Track of Alabama Tornadic Thunderstorms This image shows the radar reflectivity from the National Weather Service Doppler Radar in Birmingham, Ala. at 5:10 p.m. CDT on April 27, 2011, as a supercell thunderstorm moved across the city. ... more | .. |
  Step forward for Australian Navy's Anti-Ship Missile Defence A major milestone in the delivery of an upgraded Anti-Ship Missile Defence for the Royal Australian Navy's Anzac Class frigates has been achieved with the completion of a successful trial of the sys ... more | .. |
 Hot Towers in First Tropical Depression of the Eastern Pacific The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite called TRMM has the ability to see rainfall rates and heights of thunderstorm clouds within a tropical cyclone, and data from the satellite confirme ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Conducts Key Customer Review for Air and Missile Defense Radar Raytheon conducted its system requirements review (SRR) for Phase II of the U.S. Navy's Air and Missile Defense Radar program. This review marks a major milestone for AMDR, for which Raytheon is cur ... more |
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  Indra To Supply Satellite Communications Systems To Brazil's MoD Indra will provide rapid deployment satellite communications systems to Brazil's armed forces. The contract was awarded through public tender where Indra competed with the main companies of the sect ... more | .. |
 NATO chief rejects Russia's missile defence proposal NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Tuesday bluntly rejected a Russian proposal to end a dispute on missile defence that threatens a rapprochement between Moscow and the Western alliance. ... more | .. |
  CBP Unmanned Aircraft Reach 10,000-Hour Milestone U.S. Customs and Border Protection has announced that its Office of Air and Marine's Unmanned Aircraft System program has achieved a historic milestone, exceeding 10,000 flight hours. Unveiled ... more | .. |
 Elbit to Supply a Latin-American Country with Hermes 900 UAS Elbit Systems has announced that it was awarded a contract to supply a Latin American country with Hermes 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). The project is not in an amount that is material to Elb ... more |
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Quantum transport method reads open quantum states
Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies
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  NATO, Russian jets hold first ever joint exercise NATO and Russian fighter jets held their first ever joint exercise Tuesday, teaming up in a bid to prevent attacks such as the September 11, 2001 strikes on the United States, a NATO official confirmed. ... more | .. |
  New map reveals giant fjords beneath East Antarctic ice sheet Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high- resolution topographic map of one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, the Aurora Subglacial ... more | .. |
  Cutting-Edge Solar Innovator Offers Insight to Storage Application Kenneth Munson, president and co-founder of Sunverge Energy, has been named as a featured panelist at the Electricity Storage Association (ESA) 21st Annual Meeting, June 8, 2011 in San Jose, CA. ... more | .. |
 Israel signs high-tech deal with India Israel's High-Tech Industry Association has signed a memorandum of understanding with its Indian counterpart to boost cooperation in advanced technology, a move that will undoubtedly increase the Jewish state's burgeoning defense sales to India. ... more |
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 Russia softens stance on missile defence: report Russia has softened its stance on Western plans for missile defence over Europe but has set a number of conditions for its cooperation, Kommersant newspaper Monday quoted an official as saying. ... more | .. |
 New weapons for 'robust' US role in Asia: Gates Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Saturday vowed the US military would maintain a "robust" presence across Asia that includes new high-tech weaponry to protect allies and safeguard shipping lanes. ... more | .. |
  British Apaches hit targets near Libya's Brega: ministry British Apache helicopters destroyed a radar station and a military checkpoint held by Moamer Kadhafi's forces near Brega in their first sorties over Libya, the defence ministry said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 British radar getting U.S. subsystems Mercury Computer Systems of Massachusetts is supplying Application Ready Subsystems to BAE Systems for ARTISAN 3D Naval Radar. ... more |
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Trump vows to relaunch Egypt-Ethiopia talks on dam row
China's birth rate falls to lowest on record
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  US Army supports student launch program A scientific rocket screamed skyward at Spaceport America May 20, 2011, as students from all over New Mexico, as well as Texas and Arizona came to see their scientific payloads fly into space during ... more | .. |
 Anzac Frigate Modernisation Reaches Final Milestones The Defence and Security company Saab is one of the prime contractors for the ANZAC frigate ASMD project which has reached its most important milestone with the successful firing of an Evolved Sea S ... more | .. |
 Radar reveals secrets of Antarctic ice Ice-penetrating radar has revealed one of the last uncharted regions of Earth, an ice-buried lowland in East Antarctica larger than Texas, researchers say. ... more | .. |
 Navy Helicopters Exercise With USA Newest Aircraft Carrier Helicopters from 849 Naval Air Squadron have been taking part in a major maritime exercise this week with the United States aircraft carrier USS George H W Bush off the west coast of Cornwall. ... more |
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 Russian, NATO jets to hold first ever joint exercise Russian and NATO fighter jets will hold their first ever joint exercise next week, teaming up in a bid to prevent attacks such as the September 11, 2001 strikes on the United States, the alliance said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Supplies Navigation Upgrades for Oil Tankers Northrop Grumman has supplied electronic chart display and information systems (ECDIS) for 12 BP oil tankers. Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine business unit installed four of its new-generatio ... more | .. |
 Stars help to track space junk A team of researchers from the Royal Institute and Observatory of the Navy (ROA) in Cadiz (Spain) has developed a method to track the movement of geostationary objects using the position of the star ... more | .. |
  Cities affect storms, but downwind areas can get the worst of it Urban areas modify thunderstorms that can eventually get stronger and more violent as they leave the cities and move to downwind areas, according to a Purdue University study. Using 10 years of data ... more |
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