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EU not doing enough to support space sector: Astrium headParis (AFP) Sept 6, 2010 The EU executive commission is not providing sufficient support to the European space industry, currently locked in close competition with its US counterpart, the head of French space group Astrium said in an interview published on Monday. "Every country is backing its industry, except Europe," argued Astrium chairman Francois Augue in the French financial paper Les Echos. "If Brussels implements the policy that is being developed, it will ultimately mean the end of Europe's space industry prese ... read more |
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Tucson AZ (SPX) Sep 03, 2010Raytheon has won the competition for the next phase of Excalibur Ib and has been awarded a $23 million U.S. Army contract to finalize the next-generation 155 mm precision-guided projectile's design. Delivery of the Excalibur Ib rounds is projected to occur in 2012. Based on the combat-proven Excalibur Ia, Excalibur Ib uses GPS technology to provide a first round, fire-for-effect, precision ... more  
White Sands Missile Range NM (SPX) Sep 03, 2010Raytheon and Boeing completed the second of three government-sponsored firings of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile. The JAGM used its imaging infrared (IIR) guidance system to hit an armored vehicle target at 4 kilometers (2.5 statute miles). The Raytheon-Boeing JAGM features a fully integrated tri-mode seeker that incorporates semiactive laser, uncooled imaging infrared and millimeter wave ... more 
Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 03, 2010Lockheed Martin's multi-purpose AGM 114R HELLFIRE II missile struck and destroyed a stationary tank target in its third proof-of-principle flight test, a ground-launch test configured to simulate launch from an unmanned aerial system (UAS). The R model, or "Romeo" missile, features a multi-purpose warhead that enables a single HELLFIRE missile to cover all of the target sets of the current ... more |
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Critical Polar Data Flows Briskly To ResearchersWashington DC (SPX) Sep 03, 2010 Operation IceBridge - a NASA airborne mission to observe changes in Earth's rapidly changing polar land ice and sea ice - is soon to embark on its fourth field season in October. The mission is now paralleled by a campaign to bring data to researchers as quickly as possible and to accelerate the analysis of those changes and how they may affect people and climate systems. "Anyone can access the wealth of IceBridge data online, and do so free of charge and without a formal request," said Michael St ... read more |
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