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Thales Alenia Space To Build Jason-3 Operational Oceanographic SatelliteCannes, France (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 Thales Alenia Space announced to have signed with French Space Agency (CNES), the contract to build the Jason-3 satellite. The Jason-3 operational oceanographic mission involves a quadripartite collaboration between the two meteorological organizations Eumetsat and NOAA, acting as the leaders of the program, and CNES and its American counterpart NASA. Jason-3 will allow the continuity of high precision ocean topography measurements beyond TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2, which are now op ... read more |
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Ft Lauderdale FL (SPX) Feb 25, 2010Soldiers participating in the U.S. Army's recent Expeditionary Warrior Experiment (AEWE), Ft. Benning, Ga., were able to acquire unprecedented levels of knowledge about their surroundings thanks to the battlefield imaging and communications relay capabilities of Northrop Grumman's Fire Scout vertical unmanned aerial system (VUAS). Hovering 4,000 feet above the battlefield, Fire Scout offer ... more  
Paris (UPI) Feb 24, 2009 France will purchase 260 Javelin missiles from the United States and has decided to look into a major upgrade of its tank and armored vehicle fleet. Paris will spend some $70 million on the missiles, produced by a consortium of Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, together with 76 launchers, Defensenews.com reports. The Javelin is a fire-and-forget anti-tank missile that can be launched ... more  
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 24, 2010A US drone slammed missiles into a Taliban compound on Wednesday, killing eight militants in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said. The attack targeted the Dandey Darpa Khel area of North Waziristan, a stronghold of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in the rugged tribal region branded by Washington the most dangerous region in the world. "The ... more |
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Rapid Response Science Missions Assess Potential For Another Major Haiti EarthquakeAustin TX (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 To help assess the potential threat of more large earthquakes in Haiti and nearby areas, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics are co-leading three expeditions to the country with colleagues from Purdue University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the U.S. Geological Survey and five other institutions. Rapid response missions can be critical for assessing future risks because a fault can continue to displace the ground for weeks and months after a large earthq ... read more |
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