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February 15, 2015

A New Way to View Titan: 'Despeckle' It
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2015
During 10 years of discovery, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has pulled back the smoggy veil that obscures the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Cassini's radar instrument has mapped almost half of the giant moon's surface; revealed vast, desert-like expanses of sand dunes; and plumbed the depths of expansive hydrocarbon seas. What could make that scientific bounty even more amazing? Well, what if the radar images could look even better? Thanks to a recently developed technique for handling nois ... read more

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Novel high-power microwave generator High-power microwaves are frequently used in civil applications, such as radar and communication systems, heating and current drive of plasmas in fusion devices, and acceleration in high-energy line ... more		Big US defense blimp stirs privacy jitters On a crisp winter's day, a tethered blimp almost as big as a football field slowly rises into the blue Maryland sky, casting its radar eye over greater Washington and well beyond. ... more		High seas force SpaceX to ditch bid to recycle rocket SpaceX said it cannot attempt to recycle the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket after launch of a space weather observatory on Wednesday because of high seas. ... more
				Lockheed Martin intros new sensor system Lockheed Martin introduced sensor system that can track and target multiple targets in radar-denied environments. ... more		SMAP Satellite utilizes Northrop Grumman's AstroMesh Reflector On January 30th, NASA successfully launched the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base, on its mission to provide global measurements of soil moisture. A key f ... more

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Taiwan's F-16s receiving Northrop Grumman fire control radar Lockheed Martin has given Northrop Grumman its first production order for APG-83 Scalable Agile Beam Radar as part of its upgrade for Taiwanese F-16 fighters. ... more		Moog Supports Delta 2 of SMAP satellite Moog Space and Defense Group provided propulsion control to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's (JPL) Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) spacecraft that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ... more		Trump's withdrawal list masks US pullback from climate, security and development bodies Trump seeks 50% hike in defense budget to $1.5 trillion Trump says will ban US defense companies issuing dividends, stock buybacks		Japan Successfully Launches New Spy Satellite Japan successfully completed the launch of a radar reconnaissance satellite on Sunday morning, the Kyodo news agency reports. The launch was performed from the Tanegashima Space Center in the Kagosh ... more
				Japan delays launch of satellite due to weather Japan on Thursday postponed the launch of an information gathering satellite with a radar reconnaissance payload for the Japanese government due to weather. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Age ... more		NASA Data Peers into Greenland's Ice Sheet Scientists using ice-penetrating radar data collected by NASA's Operation IceBridge and earlier airborne campaigns have built the first-ever comprehensive map of layers deep inside the Greenland Ice ... more

Airbus DS sells Belgian electronics factory A Swiss-based equity firm is entering the defense-related business sector through the acquisition of an Airbus Defense and Space electronics plant in Belgium. ... more		Asteroid That Flew Past Earth Has Moon Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86. The images show the asteroid, ... more		China says strengthens controls on dual-use exports to Japan AI helps pave the way for self-driving cars Japan nuclear official loses phone with confidential data in China		Raytheon's enhanced AESA radar a boon for F/A-18 aircraft Raytheon reports a flight test of its APG-79(V)X AESA radar has validated its enhancement of the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's F/A-18C/D aircraft. ... more
Uruguay receives mobile border surveillance system Turkish defense company Aselsan A.S. reports it has completed a contract to equip the Uruguayan Army with a mobile surveillance radar system. ... more		NASA launching spacecraft with 19 foot lasso NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive, SMAP, will measure moisture in the Earth's soil, which will help farmers combat the effects of drought. ... more		Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, More Common Than Previously Thought? by Dr. Tony Phillips Each day, thunderstorms around the world produce about a thousand quick bursts of gamma rays, some of the highest-energy light naturally found on Earth. By merging records of e ... more		Technology Innovations Spin NASA's SMAP into Space It's active. It's passive. And it's got a big, spinning lasso. Scheduled for launch on Jan. 29, 2015, NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) instrument will measure the moisture lodged in Earth' ... more

	Radar testing for JLENS aerostat The first of two radar blimps to protect the nation's capital from cruise missiles is being readied for operational transfer to a U.S. Army air defense unit. ... more		Second ballistic missile defense radar deployed in Japan A second radar system for the detection of ballistic missiles is being deployed in Japan by the U.S. Department of Defense and Japan's Ministry of Defense. ... more

Trump pulls US out of key climate treaty, deepening global pullback

Australia heatwave stokes risk of catastrophic bushfires

3,000 tourists evacuated as Argentine Patagonia battles wildfires

US delivers second radar defense system to Japan		Russian Space Agency Pushes Back Earth Imaging Satellite Launch to Friday		Strela Rocket With Kondor-E Satellite Blasts Off From Baikonur		Danish radars for new British offshore patrol boats		Army installs ground-based sense-and-avoid system for drones
Companies partner counter-IED technologies		Dutch Navy LPD getting new radar system		Fermi brings deeper focus to thunderstorm gamma-rays		Exelis providing radar signal simulators to Air Force		Mobile radio passive radar makes harbors safer

French military orders Ground Master air defense radar systems

Dutch launch 'intelligent bicycle' that warns of danger

BAE Systems to produce prototype counter-radar system

Rapiscan adds CounterBomber distance threat detector to portfolio

Raytheon building air and missile defense center for Qatar

Fogo volcano on Sentinel's radar

Seismo-Ionospheric effects of 'Chelyabinsk' Meteorite revealed

U.S. supplies Ukraine with counter-mortar radar systems

US delivers anti-mortar radars to Ukraine: Pentagon

Sense and Avoid system for UAVs in civilian airspace closer to reality

Swedish military gets upgraded radar facilityw/lll

Eurofighter unveils 1.0-billion-euro radar upgrade

Raytheon touts its Agile software development process

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