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June 05, 2013

NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Has Its Own Moon
Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2013
A sequence of radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 was obtained on the evening of May 29, 2013, by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., when the asteroid was about 3.75 million miles (6 million kilometers) from Earth, which is 15.6 lunar distances. The radar imagery revealed that 1998 QE2 is a binary asteroid. In the near-Earth population, about 16 percent of asteroids that are about 655 feet (200 meters) or larger are binary or triple systems ... read more

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Raytheon using Wind Farm Mitigation kits across Dutch air bases The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) has contracted Raytheon to upgrade four additional Airport Surveillance Radar sites following the successful implementation of the first Wind Farm Mitigation ... more		Russia to Launch South Korean Satellite in August A Russian rocket will launch South Korea's latest multipurpose Arirang-5 satellite on August 22, Seoul's science ministry said on Thursday. The rocket will blast off from the Yasny launch cent ... more		Islamist attackers 'were known to British agents' The two men suspected of butchering a soldier on a London street in a gruesome Islamist attack were known to security agents, government sources suggested on Thursday. ... more
				Northrop Grumman's SABR Brings Fifth Generation Fighter Radar Capabilities to F-16 Aircraft Northrop Grumman Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) designed for the F-16 fighter aircraft recently demonstrated its autonomous, all-environment precision targeting capability, which will enhance the ... more		Asteroid 1998 QE2 To Sail Past Earth Nine Times Larger Than Cruise Ship On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2 will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. ... more

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ESA's next Earth Explorer satellite Will Map The Tropics ESA's Earth Observation Programme Board has selected 'Biomass' to become the seventh Earth Explorer mission. The innovative satellite aims to map and monitor one of Earth's most precious resources. ... more		iGT Debuts Airborne Satcom Solutions for Secure Connectivity and Situational Awareness As the demand for airborne applications increases, iDirect Government Technologies (iGT), a wholly owned subsidiary of VT iDirect (iDirect), launches new airborne solutions for secure connectivity a ... more		Greenland is helpful, but not vital, for US missile defense European military mission in Greenland as US aim 'remains intact' Amazon expands 'sovereign cloud' in Europe		Forest-mapping satellite to join Earth study mission: ESA A satellite that will map the world's forests has been chosen for the seventh mission in Europe's Earth Explorer project, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Tuesday. ... more
				General Dynamics Team to Develop Second Radar System for the US Army Range Radar Replacement Program General Dynamics C4 Systems received a contract modification to the Range Radar Replacement Program (RRRP) to develop a new High/Medium Power Close-in Radar system. The Close-in radar system is mobi ... more		Taiwan wavers on F-16 deal Taiwan said Monday that it needs fighter jets which are more advanced than the upgraded F-16 announced by the United States, suggesting that it was dropping its bid for dozens of the aircraft. ... more

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Graphene's high-speed seesaw Writing in Nature Communications, the researchers report the first graphene-based transistor with bistable characteristics, which means that the device can spontaneously switch between two electroni ... more		New Method Joins Gallium Nitride and Diamond for Better Thermal Management Many military radio frequency (RF) systems, like radar and communication systems, use a class of power amplifiers (PAs) called monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MIMIC). MMIC PAs using ... more		An earthquake on a chip: New tech could make smartphones smaller, faster Engineered ligands deliver durable high efficiency perovskite solar cells Pendulum device taps power from ocean currents		NASA Rover Prototype Set to Explore Greenland Ice Sheet NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland. The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operate ... more
				Raytheon contracted for Miniature Air Launched Decoy and Jammer units The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon a firm-fixed-price $81.7 million option for Lot 6 on the Lot 5 contract for the production and delivery of 202 MALD-J jammers and containers. The contract also in ... more		MEADS Low Frequency Sensor Cues Multifunction Fire Control Radar in Test A Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) Low Frequency Sensor has proven its ability to cue the Multifunction Fire Control Radar (MFCR) in a test near Syracuse, N.Y. During the demonstrati ... more

Boeing EMARSS Aircraft Completes First Test Flight

Airline industry calls for single emissions standard

Boeing's first 787 arrives in China: media

U.S. Navy awards $6.2B in contracts to build 9 new destroyers

Northrop Grumman to Bid on CANES Navy Tactical Afloat Contract

Hagel visits US navy's future 'multitasker'

Glitch puts off Indian navigation satellite launch by a fortnight

Northrop Grumman to Demonstrate Open Architecture Navigation System for DARPA

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Elevated carbon dioxide making arid regions greener

New maps show how shipping noise spans the globe

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	Israel talks Iran war as U.S, sells arms A new flurry of threats by Israeli leaders to strike Iran on their own has coincided with a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel to finalize an arms deal that will guarantee Israel's regional military supremacy for a decade or two. ... more		How to Target an Asteroid Like many of his colleagues at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., Shyam Bhaskaran is working a lot with asteroids these days. And also like many of his colleagues, the deep space na ... more		Northrop Grumman's SABR Gives F-16 Pilots the Big Picture To a pilot, a radar is only as useful as the information it provides, and Northrop Grumman's Big SAR (synthetic aperture radar) mapping for the Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) delivers the largest, ... more		Northrop Grumman G/ATOR Radar System Completes Government Testing at Wallops Island The AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) system completed two phases of government developmental testing at the Surface Combat Systems Center (SCSC) in Wallops Island, Va., and has move ... more

As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future

Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime

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Brazil to buy 34 Gepard tanks from Germany		Wing adopts new space surveillance mission		NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging Scientific Expedition		Cobra Judy Replacement radars perform exceptionally during first live-launch test		Eyes in sky help when catastrophe strikes
US deploys sea-based radar amid N. Korea tensions		Northrop Grumman AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR Radar System Demonstrates Ballistic Missile Defense Capability		Raytheon helps MDA counter ballistic missile threat with delivery of 8th AN/TPY-2 radar		NGC Offers New High-Resolution Sensors for Hawk Air Defense System		Goldstone Radar Snags Images of Asteroid 2013 ET

Mobile LIDAR technology expanding rapidly

Raytheon's dual-band datalink tested with Thales radar

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The making of Antarctica's hidden fjords

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Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Joint STARS, Global Hawk Interoperability

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