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Ariane 5 Lofts Dual BirdsKourou, French Guiana (SPX) Oct 29, 2010 The fourth Ariane 5 mission of 2010 successfully delivered two telecommunications satellites to geostationary transfer orbit today, marking the 53rd flight for Arianespace's heavy-lift workhorse and its 39th consecutive success. Lifting off on time at 6:51 p.m. from the Spaceport's ELA-3 launch zone in French Guiana, the Ariane 5 deployed its W3B and BSAT-3b passengers during a flight lasting just under 38 minutes. The launcher's payload lift performance was approximately 8,260 kg., which included ... read more |
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 Ariane 5 Rolls Out For Dual Bird Launch The Ariane 5 for Arianespace's next mission has moved to the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport, readying it for tomorrow's liftoff with a dual payload of telecommunications satellites for Europe and ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Multi-Spectral Targeting Delivers High-Definition Raytheon is upgrading sensors with enhanced target location accuracy and high-definition imaging. "This is an important upgrade for our Multi-Spectral Targeting Systems family of sensors as we ... more | .. |
  Advanced Ruggedized Robotic Exoskeleton Undergoes Validation Testing Lockheed Martin recently began laboratory testing of an improved next-generation design of its HULC advanced robotic exoskeleton. The testing brings HULC a step closer to readiness to support troops ... more | .. |
  Missile Defense Agency Selects Raytheon To Provide New Missile Defense Radar The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon a $190 million fixed price incentive fee contract to construct, integrate and test a new Army/Navy Transportable Radar Surveillance (AN/TPY-2) radar. ... more | .. |
  MQ-8B Fire Scout Surpasses 1000 Flight Hours Northrop Grumman's MQ-8B Fire Scout vertical unmanned aerial system (VUAS) has passed the 1,000 flight test hours milestone, attesting to its steady maturation as a key intelligence, surveillance an ... more |
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McKinney TX (SPX) Oct 29, 2010 Raytheon's advanced Airborne Optical Sensor system is now an integral part of the Missile Defense Agency's experimentation with forward-deployed, advanced infrared sensors for missile defense applications. "Raytheon is proud to provide this technology to the Missile Defense Agency," said Tim Carey, vice president for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaiss ... more  
Seoul (UPI) Oct 28, 2010 South Korea said it favors a joint U.S-Korean missile defense system rather than the United States-led plan involving the purchase of longer range missiles. South Korea's anti-missile system, under the Korea Air Missile Defense program, is designed to protect the south from short-range missiles fired by North Korea while the U.S. system uses missiles to protect against medium- and long- ... more 
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 29, 2010A Japanese naval destroyer fired an interceptor missile to shoot down a mock ballistic missile off Hawaii in a test of Japan's missile-defence system, the defence ministry said Friday. The US Missile Defence Agency in a statement called the test a "significant milestone in the growing cooperation between Japan and the US in the area of missile defence". The target was launched from a US ... more |
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Hanging On For Dear LifeGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 29, 2010 Countless people clung to life in the branches of trees hemming the shorelines during the deadly 2004 tsunami that killed more than 230,000 coastal residents in Indonesia, India, Thailand and Sri Lanka. In the aftermath of the disaster, land change scientist Chandra Giri from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) decided to explore to what degree those unique trees - which make up valuable forest ecosystems called mangroves - safeguard lives, property and beaches during hurricanes, tsunamis and floods. ... read more |
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