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July 12, 2013

NASA's Polar Robotic Ranger Passes First Greenland Test
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 11, 2013
Defying 30 mph gusts and temperatures down to minus 22 F, NASA's new polar rover recently demonstrated in Greenland that it could operate completely autonomously in one of Earth's harshest environments. The robot known as GROVER, which stands for both Greenland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, was designed by teams of students attending engineering boot camps at Goddard in the summers of 2010 and 2011. Built to carry a ground-penetrating radar to analyze la ... read more

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Scientists Image Vast Subglacial Water System Underpinning West Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier In a development that will help predict potential sea level rise from the Antarctic ice sheet, scientists from The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics have used an innovation in ... more		OHB To Supply German Army SARah radar satellite reconnaissance system OHB System AG, a member of the space and technology group OHB AG (Prime Standard, ISIN: DE0005936124), has signed a contract with the Federal Office of Equipment, Information Technology and In-Servi ... more		Kondor radar imaging satellite reaches target orbit A Kondor radar imaging satellite of the Russian Defense Ministry launched with a Strela rocket, a conversion from the Soviet RS-18 intercontinental ballistic missile, from the Baikonur space center ... more
				Israel seeks $5B in U.S. loans to buy arms Israel is reported to be seeking U.S. loan guarantees of $5 billion to finance the purchase of the advanced weapons systems the U.S. administration has offered the Jewish state under a $10 billion package for its Middle East allies. ... more		Philippine president vows to rebuild air force by 2016 Philippine President Benigno Aquino vowed Monday to acquire fighter jets, air defence radar and other equipment within three years to bolster the country's weak air force, amid a territorial dispute with China. ... more

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Low-power Wi-Fi signal tracks movement -- even behind walls The comic-book hero Superman uses his X-ray vision to spot bad guys lurking behind walls and other objects. Now we could all have X-ray vision, thanks to researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Ar ... more		Raytheon extends ballistic missile defense capability through radar modernization effort A U.S. Middle East security partner moved one step closer to gaining an enhanced ballistic missile defense capability when Raytheon completed the redesign of eight circuit card assemblies for a Fore ... 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		LONGBOW Receives Contract for Saudi Arabia Apache Radar Systems The LONGBOW Limited Liability Company, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, received a $90.6 million contract to provide Saudi Arabia with LONGBOW Fire Control Radars (FCRs) for ... more
				Echoes can reveal the shape of a room A snap of a finger, a handful of scattered microphones and a computer algorithm are all it takes to create an accurate three-dimensional map of a room, Swiss and US researchers said Monday. ... more		Raytheon awarded contract for F-15C AESA radars Boeing Company has awarded Raytheon a follow-on contract for the sixth production lot of APG-63(V)3 active electronically scanned array radars for United States Air Force and Air National Guard F-15 ... more

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US gives Israeli minister a ride in V-22 Osprey aircraft Israel's Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon got to fly in a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft during a US visit Friday, as his country weighs whether to buy the American military plane. ... more		Two New Russian Radars to Start Work Next Year Russia's two new antimissile radars - one in the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad and the other in Siberia's Irkutsk Region - will be launched in 2014, the Aerospace Defense Forces head said Thursday. ... 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		Radar Movies Highlight Asteroid 1998 QE2 and Its Moon Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have released a second, longer, more refined movie clip of asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon. Th ... more
				NASA Radar Reveals Asteroid Has Its Own Moon 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 th ... more		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

Russian air force receives Su-34 bombers

Poseidon full-rate production closer

China anxiously awaits updates after Asiana jet crash

Raytheon wins US Navy Next Generation Jammer competition

China, Russia to hold naval drills: media

Film director faces probe over Taiwan naval base ploy

Tests advance U.S. program for new GPS satellites

GPS System Improved as New Boeing Satellite Enters Service

Russia to launch 2 Glonass satellites

Google ditches location-sharing feature in map apps

Google updates Map app with new traffic, exploration functions

Long-lived oceanography satellite decommissioned after equipment fails

	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

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

Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime

Cosmic krypton timestamps reveal Australia landscape evolution and resources

ESA's next Earth Explorer satellite Will Map The Tropics		iGT Debuts Airborne Satcom Solutions for Secure Connectivity and Situational Awareness		Forest-mapping satellite to join Earth study mission: ESA		General Dynamics Team to Develop Second Radar System for the US Army Range Radar Replacement Program		Taiwan wavers on F-16 deal
Graphene's high-speed seesaw		New Method Joins Gallium Nitride and Diamond for Better Thermal Management		NASA Rover Prototype Set to Explore Greenland Ice Sheet		Raytheon contracted for Miniature Air Launched Decoy and Jammer units		MEADS Low Frequency Sensor Cues Multifunction Fire Control Radar in Test

Israel talks Iran war as U.S, sells arms

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