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October 19, 2014

NASA Tool Helps Airliners Minimize Weather Delays
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 20, 2014
In the heat of a summer afternoon, a line of thunderstorms develops in the skies over North Texas and threatens to wreak havoc with the timely flow of air traffic headed toward or away from Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. One look at the weather radar tells the grim story: airlines will lose money as jets burn extra fuel to avoid the storms and aggravated passengers will miss connections as flights are delayed. No one will be happy. Fortunately, a NASA-developed tool designed to all ... read more

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				JLENS radar data integrates with NORAD system A series of laboratory tests have proven that data collected by the JLENS aerostat-radar system can be successfully be converted into a format for use by NORAD. ... more		US Rear Admiral to head missile shield base in Romania US Rear Admiral John Scorby was Friday named commander of a base in Romania that will form part of a NATO ballistic missile shield system which has drawn Russia's ire. ... more

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China to launch new marine surveillance satellites in 2019 China will launch a new "constellation" of marine surveillance satellites in 2019 to monitor ships, oil rigs, marine disasters and land-based resources. According to Lin Mingsen, deputy direct ... more		First Copernicus satellite now operational With the commissioning of Sentinel-1A completed and the satellite's transfer to the team in charge of its exploitation, its data are available as of today to all users. This marks the beginning of t ... more		EU should consider forming combined military force: defence chief NATO 'far from being in a crisis' over Greenland: top commander 'War is back in vogue,' Pope Leo says		Metallized Carbon Corporation Announces Silver Metcar Material Metallized Carbon has announced that it produces Silver Metcar, a silver impregnated, carbon-graphite material useful for electrical applications that require low resistance, low voltage drop, and l ... more
				New NASA Video Gives Hurricanes a Good 'HIWRAP' A new animation from NASA shows how a remarkable instrument called the HIWRAP looks into tropical cyclones at wind, rain and ice to analyze storm intensity. The HIWRAP is the High-Altitude Ima ... more		CryoSat unveils secrets of the deep ESA's ice mission has been used to create a new gravity map, exposing thousands of previously unchartered 'seamounts', ridges and deep ocean structures. This vivid new picture of the least-explored ... more

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Czechs preparing international tender for air defense radar The Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic reports it will soon prepare an international tender for 3D mobile air defense radars. ... more		Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilo ... more		France taps Thales for radar antenna research project Thales, the French technology company, has been tapped by the country's military procurement agency to research next-generation active radar antenna. ... more		MEADS fire control radar demonstrates capability The fire control radar of the Medium Extended Air Defense System demonstrated its technological maturity during testing in Italy and Germany. ... more

	Russia Plans to Boost Space Monitoring Capability by 2018 Russia will build a network of advanced laser-optical and radar stations in the next four years to boost its space object recognition capability, the Defense Ministry said Friday. "The new net ... more		Raytheon producing backup components for missile defense radar Major sub-components of the AN/TPY-2 Ballistic Missile Defense system's radar are being built as backups to keep the radars running during maintenance periods. ... more

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NATO chief talks Arctic security with Rubio amid US Greenland push

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Helicopter-Type UAVs May Appear in Russian Navy in One Year		Diehl delivers 4,000th production IRIS-T missile to Sweden		Stealth wind turbines to become operational in France in 2015		Singapore has full fleet of Alenia Aermacchi trainer planes		Selex ES adds to its radar product line

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Iran unveils new missile, radar systems

Sentinel-1 poised to monitor motion

Bats bolster brain hypothesis, maybe technology, too

New F-16 configuration features AESA radar

Three Radars are Better than One

Canada's MDA receives radar antennas for satellite use

Snow has thinned on Arctic sea ice

BAE Systems touts its Artisan radar system

US looks to Japan space program to close Pacific communications gap

New integrated bridge systems for destroyers

Northrop completes UAV fuselage for NATO program

Wisconsin mayfly swarm causes car accident

Missile guidance system passes risk reduction test

New Raytheon radar for Navy passes key design reviews

Future Electronics May Depend on Lasers, Not Quartz

Royal Air Force's Tornado aircraft getting new RF jamming pods

USAF orders ground approach radar for Saudi Arabia

Patriot getting enhanced radar capabilities

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