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September 17, 2013

JIB Antennas Will Support Ship ID Capability Being Added to Canadas RADARSAT Constellation Mission
Carpinteria CA (SPX) Sep 09, 2013
Small, lightweight JIB antennas from Northrop Grumman's Astro Aerospace business unit will help provide a new maritime identification capability for Canada's three RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) Earth observation satellites planned for launch in 2018. Astro Aerospace will provide 13 self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas as part of an Automated Identification System (AIS) being added to the identical radar-imaging satellites under a contract from RCM prime contractor MacDonald, Dettwiler and ... read more

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				Pakistan to release senior Afghan Taliban prisoner Pakistan is to release its most senior Afghan Taliban detainee, Abdul Ghani Baradar, a former military chief often described as the insurgents' ex-second in command, officials said Tuesday. ... more		U.S. Army Awards Lockheed Martin contract for Counterfire Radar Production The U.S. Army awarded Lockheed Martin $206 million in additional orders for the AN/TPQ-53 (Q-53), a long-range counterfire radar that provides soldiers with enhanced 360-degree protection from indir ... more

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Radar Images of Asteroid 2005 WK4 A collage of radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2005 WK4 was generated by NASA scientists using the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on Aug. 8, 2013. The a ... more		US Army and USAF intercept cruise missile for first time with JLENS-guided AMRAAM The U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force intercepted for the first time an anti-ship cruise missile surrogate using Raytheon's Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) cued by JLENS. An affordable, ... 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		Africa's ups and downs The East African Rift is an area where two tectonic plates are moving apart, making it a region of high geological activity, home to a number of volcanoes. This a href="http://spaceinvideos.e ... more
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Navy Turns to UAVs for Help with Radar, Communications Scientists recently launched unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from a research vessel in a significant experiment that could help boost the Navy's radar and communications performance at sea. Sa ... more		Lockheed Martin Selects Northrop Grumman's Scalable Agile Beam Radar Lockheed Martin has competitively selected Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Scalable Agile Beam Radar (SABR) for the U.S. Air Force and Taiwan F-16 radar modernization and upgrade programs. ... 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		Raytheon demonstrates 3D Expeditionary Long-Range Radar Raytheon successfully completed a customer demonstration of a new U.S. Air Force expeditionary ground-based prototype radar. Designed to replace the decades old TPS-75 radar system, the Three-Dimens ... more
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