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Aerostat system detects cruise missiles and supports engagementTewksbury, MA (SPX) Dec 14, 2011 Raytheon recently established a test site at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., for its cruise missile defense system - the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS). Brig. Gen. Ole Knudson, the U.S. Army's Program Executive Officer for Missiles and Space, along with representatives from the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command, Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala.; White Sands Missile Range; prime contractor Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems; and TCOM, the aerostat's ... read more |
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  20th Space Control Squadron: AFSPC's premier space surveillance squadron The operators of 20th Space Control Squadron have a big job: carry out round-the-clock space surveillance operations with the world's most powerful radar. The squadron's AN/FPS-85 radar helps the Ai ... more | .. |
  ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers Ready For Launch To ISS ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers is now officially ready for liftoff on 21 December: he and his crewmates have passed their final exams and left for the launch site yesterday. Along with Andre's plane, h ... more | .. |
  Iran rejects missile shield threat against Turkey: FM Iran dismissed intimidating remarks by its own officials against Turkey saying Tehran would target NATO's missile shield in its neighbour if threatened, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
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  Afghanistan 'does not want role in US-Iran hostilities' Afghan territory should not be used in a proxy war between the United States and Iran, President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday after the Islamic republic captured a US drone. ... more | .. |
  Raytheon SDB 2 Flight Test Keeps Program Ahead of Schedule Raytheon has completed a series of captive flight tests on the Small Diameter Bomb II tri-mode seeker, keeping the program ahead of schedule. The tests demonstrated that the company's tri-mode seeke ... more | .. |
  Northrop Grumman Completes Fabrication Of Sunshield Deployment Flight Structure For JWST Northrop Grumman has completed the space-qualified, graphite composite tubes that will enable the giant sunshield of the James Webb Space Telescope to deploy in space. The company is leading the tel ... more | .. |
 Japan launches new spy satellite Japan launched a new spy satellite into orbit Monday amid concerns over North Korea's missile programme and to monitor natural disasters in the region, officials said. ... more |
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Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts
Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution
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  Antarctic expedition checks CryoSat down-under Next week marks 100 years since Roald Amundsen reached the South Pole. As a team of scientists brave the Antarctic to validate data from ESA's CryoSat mission, it's hard to imagine what these first ... more | .. |
 Obama demands Iran return downed US drone President Barack Obama acknowledged for the first time Monday that a US drone was in Iranian hands and said the United States has asked Tehran to return the sophisticated spycraft. ... more | .. |
  Israel's growing wall of steel fences off Egypt Far from the uproar of Cairo's Tahrir Square, Israel has been doubling its efforts to erect a giant, impenetrable security barrier along its 240-kilometre (150-mile) border with the Egyptian Sinai. ... more | .. |
  Merging Tsunami Doubled Japan Destruction NASA and Ohio State University researchers have discovered the major tsunami generated by the March 2011 Tohoku-Oki quake centered off northeastern Japan was a long-hypothesized "merging tsunami." T ... more |
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  What's That Sparkle in Cassini's Eye? The moon Enceladus, one of the jewels of the Saturn system, sparkles peculiarly bright in new images obtained by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The images of the moon, the first ever taken of Ence ... more | .. |
  NATO seeks to mend fences with Russia on missile shield NATO and Russia began a fresh push on Thursday to resolve a deep rift over a European missile shield with the alliance chief insisting again that it was not pointed at Moscow. ... more | .. |
 Plextek picks tracking technology supplier British technology firm Cambridge Pixel has been contracted by Plextek Ltd. to supply tracking technology for electronic ground-scanning surveillance radar. ... more | .. |
  Cassidian debuts new radar product A new wide-area radar to protect coastlines, maritime infrastructure and harbors against asymmetric threats has been introduced by a German company. ... 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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Coastal radar offers unprecedented performance of littoral surveillance Cassidian, the defence and security division of EADS, introduces a new security radar into the market which opens up completely new opportunities for the wide-area protection of coastlines, maritime ... more | .. |
  France warns of end of Rafale fighter jet production France warned Wednesday that defence giant Dassault would halt production of its Rafale multi-role fighter jet if it remains unable to sell any abroad. ... more | .. |
 Medvedev to talk missile shield in Prague Russian President Dmitry Medvedev was due to begin a two-day visit to Prague Wednesday amid mounting tensions between Moscow and NATO over the alliance's planned missile defence shield. ... more | .. |
 West pushing Russia into arms race: top general Russia's top general on Wednesday warned it was being pushed into a new arms race with the West due to the deployment of a US-backed missile defence shield for Europe. ... more |
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 Medvedev arrives in Prague for missile shield talks Russian President Dmitry Medvedev arrived in Prague for a two-day visit Wednesday amid mounting tensions between Moscow and NATO over the alliance's planned missile defence shield. ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Pearl Harbor redux Seventy years ago today, the Japanese navy launched strikes against Pearl Harbor sinking much of "Battleship Row," awakening a sleeping giant and forcing the United States into World War II with catastrophic effects for the Axis powers. ... more | .. |
 Russia and NATO trade barbs over missile shield Russia warned NATO on Wednesday it was being pushed into a new arms race by a missile shield whose deployment in Europe threatened to cast a shadow over crunch talks between the two former foes. ... more | .. |
 NATO tells Russia missile response a waste of money NATO's chief urged Moscow on Wednesday to refrain from wasting money on countering an "artificial enemy" as alliance foreign ministers met to calm Russian fears over a European missile shield. ... 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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NATO allies meet amid tensions with Russia, Pakistan NATO allies meet Wednesday hoping to calm Russian fears over their missile shield project but US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton angered Moscow by criticising its parliamentary elections. ... more | .. |
 Russia warns on missile shield as NATO meets Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that NATO had refused to provide a written guarantee that its planned missile shield for Europe poses no threat to Moscow. ... more | .. |
 Israel says Syrian rocket tests show regime's fear Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak said on Tuesday that Syrian long-range missile tests detected in Israel show that the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad fears for its future. ... more | .. |
NATO allies to meet amid Russia anger over missile shield NATO allies will strive to convince Moscow this week that their European missile shield is not aimed at Russia after the Kremlin threatened to deploy weapons systems near EU borders. ... more |
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 Iraq seeks new F-16s to bolster air force Iraq wants to make a deal with the United States for another 18 Lockheed Martin F-16 multi-role fighters to expand its fledgling air force as the U.S. military withdrawal nears completion. ... more | .. |
  Mountains and Buried Ice on Mars New images from Mars Express show the Phlegra Montes mountain range, in a region where radar probing indicates large volumes of water ice are hiding below. This could be a source of water for future ... more | .. |
 Israel fears F-35 delivery will be delayed Israeli military planners say they are increasingly worried that problems in Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program will mean that delivery of 20 of the stealthy jets ordered in October 2010 for $2.75 billion will be delayed. ... more | .. |
 Indra Makes In Cadiz A Flight Demonstration Of Its Unmanned Aircrafts Pelicano And Mantis In the framework of the European Robotics Week Indra has made a flight demo of two of its unmanned aircrafts: the Pelican helicopter and the Mantis plane, at Villamartin aerodrome (Cadiz). The ... more |
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