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'Exorbitant' price talk for Galileo maps way off beam: EUBrussels (AFP) Oct 26, 2010 A top European official slapped down reports on Tuesday that the much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system could be 20 billion euros over budget, as he named a new contractor for the project. European Industry Commissioner Antonio Tajani rejected the figure as "exorbitant" and "unimagineable", while insisting that the price tag for the system remained at 3.4 billion euros (4.7 billion dollars). The Financial Times Deutschland, citing a German government report, said that the overall cost ... read more |
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  Space tourism ticket prices could drop Two space tourism companies say the price for a trip into space could drop from millions of dollars down to hundreds of thousands by late 2011. ... more | .. |
 Soot From Space Tourism Rockets Could Spur Climate Change Rocket exhaust could become a significant contributor to global climate change in coming decades, according to a new study. The research finds that soot emitted by rockets - not their carbon dioxide ... more | .. |
  LockMart Develops Vehicle-Mounted Tablet For Tactical Situational Awareness Lockheed Martin has developed a ruggedized tablet computer for use in tactical vehicles. The TacFleet 8 allows real-world tactical situational awareness exchanges for brigade-and-below forces on the ... more | .. |
  AAI Completes Fee-For-Service Operations With Aerosonde And Orbiter UAS AAI has announced that the company has completed fee-for-service operations on behalf of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering Center (CERDEC) for its annua ... more | .. |
  JTRS, Ground Mobile Radios Program Completes System Integration Testing Boeing has completed system integration testing on the Joint Tactical Radio System, Ground Mobile Radios (JTRS GMR) program. "Boeing and its team completed system integration testing and suppo ... more |
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Canoga Park CA (SPX) Oct 27, 2010The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne a contract, with a value up to $1 million, to design an engine for the Transformer (TX), a vertical take-off and landing, road-worthy concept study vehicle. The engine design will use technology from the EnduroCORE(tm) engine developed by Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne. Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne is ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 27, 2010Raytheon and Boeing have completed flight testing of the Joint Air-to-Ground Missile's fixed-wing launcher and Instrumented Measurement Vehicle on the Boeing F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet fighter aircraft. An IMV is the same size, shape and mass as an all-up JAGM round, and it contains equipment that evaluates JAGM's performance during a mission. The flight tests are a crucial first step toward ... more 
China Lake CA (SPX) Oct 26, 2010The U.S. Navy completed the first live test of the Joint Multi-Effects Warhead System (JMEWS), meeting all performance objectives for the new warhead for the Tomahawk Block IV tactical cruise missile. The JMEWS program is designed to deliver a warhead that will give the Tactical Tomahawk Land-Attack Missile all of the same blast-fragmentation capabilities that make it a formidable weapon t ... more |
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Raytheon Tests Weapons For Unmanned Aircraft SystemsYuma Proving Ground AZ (SPX) Oct 26, 2010 Raytheon has flight-tested Small Tactical Munition, a new weapon specifically designed to be employed from unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). STM is a 13-pound guided bomb that is approximately 2-feet long, making it the smallest bomb in the Raytheon family of weapons. The bomb's dual-mode, semiactive laser seeker and GPS-inertial navigation system enable the weapon to engage both fixed and moving targets around-the-clock, regardless of weather conditions. "Current combat operations have ... read more |
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