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| January 12, 2009 |  |
SpaceDaily Advertising Kit |
 Los Angeles, CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2009 
Northrop Grumman Corporation has announced several structural actions to strengthen alignment with its customers, improve the company's program performance and growth potential, and enhance its cost competitiveness. These actions, effective immediately, include streamlining its organizational structure, reducing the number of sectors from seven to five. The five sectors will be Aerospace Systems ... read more 
College Park, MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2009Two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar in composition to the crust of Earth's continents, reports a research team primarily composed of geochemists from the University of Maryland. Published in the January 8 issue of the journal Nature, this is the first ever finding of material from an aste ... more
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Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2009The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface and its atmosphere. Known as the Lunar Dust Experiment, or LDEX, the instrument will be designed and built at CU-Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. ... more  
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 12, 2009Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that booms six times louder than expected. The finding comes from a balloon-borne instrument named ARCADE, which stands for the Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission. In July 2006 ... more  
Redwoods CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2009With the message of change resonating throughout all corners of the government, NASA, too, finds itself with the unprecedented opportunity to reinvent itself for the 21st century and perhaps reclaim the spark that inspired a generation of engineers and space scientists more than 40 years ago. In its 50th year, the international year of Astronomy, NASA needs more than an image makeover, it ... more  
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Jan 12, 2009The Hot Bird 10 satellite for Arianespace's initial Ariane 5 mission of 2009 was delivered to French Guiana today (January 8), arriving aboard a chartered cargo jetliner that completed its transatlantic trip from Europe. This spacecraft will be orbited as part of a multi-passenger payload on the February 12 flight, which will mark the start of another busy year of operations for Arianespac ... more |
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El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 12, 2009Boeing has reconfigured an on-orbit U.S. Navy satellite, adding 30 percent more communications capability. The satellite, the 11th in the Ultra-High Frequency Follow-On (UFO) series built by Boeing, was launched in 2003 and supports the Navy's global communications network, serving ships at sea and a variety of other U.S. military fixed and mobile terminals. UFO 11 has the most sophisticat ... more  
St. Louis MO (SPX) Jan 12, 2009The ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS), a joint effort of Boeing and Insitu Inc., this week completed its 1,500th shipboard sortie in service with the U.S. Navy. ScanEagle has provided persistent, cost-effective intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) to the Navy since July 2005. The Navy has used ScanEagle aboard a variety of ships - ranging from the destroyer USS Mahan ... more  
Arlington, Va. (UPI) Jan 9, 2009 Within the U.S. federal government, most of the funding allocated to information security and offensive cyber operations is spent by agencies of the Department of Defense. The biggest player is the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Md., which since the early days of the Cold War has been engaged in collecting and analyzing signals intelligence. The NSA appears to have lead ... more |
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