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NASA Announces Fiscal Year 2010 Budget
Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009Washington DC (SPX) May 08, 2009 NASA announced Thursday an $18.69 billion budget for fiscal year 2010 to advance Earth science, complete the International Space Station, explore the solar system and conduct aeronautics research. The budget request represents an increase of $903.6 million, or 5 percent, above funding provided in the fiscal year 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act. All totaled ... more Obama Must Choose Between Cars And Rockets 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 07, 2009As the Detroit's carmakers teeter on bankruptcy, the administration appears to be a whirling dervish as they attempt to set in to motion solutions for the tsunami of issues that threaten to over run, not just Washington, but the world. Detroit's automotive industry is like a bad horror film, they are truly the walking dead. As a country do we continue to throw billions of dollars at the mu ... more Delta II Launch Successful 
Vandenberg AFB CA (AFNS) May 07, 2009Teams from the 30th Space Wing and various agencies successfully launched a Delta II rocket from Vandenberg's Space Launch Complex-2 at 1:24 p.m May 5. The rocket carried an experimental satellite for the Missile Defense Agency's Space Tracking and Surveillance System Advanced Technology Risk Reduction mission. At approximately one hour after liftoff, with confirmation of the payload ... more India Using ESRI Software For Image Processing 
Redlands CA (SPX) May 08, 2009The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has reached an agreement with NIIT GIS Limited (ESRI India), ESRI's distributor in India, to equip its five Regional Remote Sensing Service Centres (RRSSCs) with ArcGIS Server and the Image extension. The centers in Jodhpur, Dehradun, Kharagpur, Nagpur, and Bangalore use Indian Remote Sensing (IRS) satellite and other imagery to create thematic ... more Orion Launch Abort Jettison Motor Delivered To White Sands 
Sacramento CA (SPX) May 08, 2009Aerojet has announced that it has shipped the first jettison motor for NASA's Orion crew exploration vehicle to the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. This first jettison motor shipment increases the technical readiness of the Launch Abort System (LAS) and is a major operational accomplishment as the first full-scale rocket propulsion element to proceed into a system-level flig ... more |
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London, UK (SPX) May 07, 2009The Ministry of Defence's Joint Sensor and Engagement Networks Integrated Project Team (JSENS IPT) has confirmed that the first Anchor Milestone has been successfully completed for the Land Environment Air Picture Provision (LEAPP) programme. This is the first of three such milestones in the contract and they mark the planned completion of significant activities within the programme schedu ... more BAE Awarded Contracts For Two Versions Of M-ATV 
Arlington VA (SPX) May 07, 2009BAE Systems has been awarded contracts to provide the military with two versions of a new armored all-terrain vehicle, designed specifically for use by U.S. forces in the rugged terrain of Afghanistan. Under this award, the company will produce three more test vehicles of each version to undergo additional survivability and mobility testing. The vehicles, called MRAP All-Terrain Vehicles ... more BMD Focus: Barak dithered on Phalanx 
Washington (UPI) May 6, 2009 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has finally bitten the bullet and announced that he is going to order Raytheon's Vulcan Phalanx super machine gun and radar system as a defense against very-short-range rockets threatening Israel from Hamas in the south and Hezbollah in the north. But he may have left it too late. Barak could and should have ordered the Raytheon Vulcan Phalanxes with ... more BMD Watch: Roketsan lands Patriot deal 
Washington (UPI) May 5, 2009 Raytheon announced Wednesday it has chosen a Turkish company that makes missiles to provide an important component for the Patriot Guidance Enhanced Missile-Tactical. Roket Sanayii ve Ticaret AS, also known as Roketsan, which is based in the Turkish capital of Ankara, has agreed to a subcontracting deal with Raytheon to perform integration work and carry out testing on the ... more |
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London UK (SPX) May 07, 2009Scientists funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the scientific process. The work was published in the journal Science. Prof Ross King, who ... more Chubb Insurance Reviews Benefits Of GeckoSystems' Mobile Robot Solutions 
Atlanta GA (SPX) May 07, 2009GeckoSystems has announced that they demonstrated their latest CareBot MSR to a management team from Chubb Insurance. eckoSystems is a dynamic leader in the emerging Mobile Service Robot (MSR) industry revolutionizing their development and usage with mobile robot solutions for safety, security, and service. "We really had no idea that multi-tasking personal robots were so advanced and nea ... more NASA Selects Northrop Grumman To Build Earth Science Instrument 
Washington DC (SPX) May 07, 2009NASA's Langley Research Center has awarded a contract to Northrop Grumman to support the design, manufacture, assembly, test and calibration of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System, or CERES, Flight Model 6 instrument. The cost-plus-award fee, incentive fee contract has a maximum value of $44.5 million over 10 years. Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems Sector will perform the ... more NASA Wins Two Webby Awards 
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 08, 2009NASA has received two Webby awards for excellence on the Internet. NASA's main Web site won the People's Voice award for best government Web site. The Cassini mission Web site received a Webby award for best science site. The People's Voice award is the second for NASA's Web site, which also won in 2003. More than 500,000 people cast votes this year. "We're extremely happy to be hono ... more
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