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C/NOFS Satellite Built By General Dynamics Successfully Launched From Reagan Test Site
Gilbert AZ (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) satellite, designed and built by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, was successfully launched today from the U.S. Army's Reagan Test Site in the Kwajalein Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands. C/NOFS is a Department of Defense (DOD) Space Test Program and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) mission that will ... more Russia To Create Manned Assembly Complex In Orbit 
Moscow (XNA) Apr 14, 2008Russia is going to create a manned assembly complex in orbit, the chief of the Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov said here on Saturday. "We shall create this complex in order to make dockings in orbit, build craft there and send them to the Moon, Mars and other planets," Perminov was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as telling a new briefing. "This proposal was on the wh ... more NASA Awards Space Station Water Contract To Hamilton Sundstrand 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2008NASA has awarded a sole-source contract to Hamilton Sundstrand Space Systems International for water production services aboard the International Space Station. The firm fixed-price contract has a potential value of $65 million and extends through Sept. 30, 2014. Hamilton Sundstrand will provide equipment that uses the station's excess carbon dioxide and hydrogen to produce water and methane. ... more Boeing Awarded Launch Services Contract For Second WorldView Satellite 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Boeing, through its commercial launch business, Boeing Launch Services, has been awarded a contract to launch DigitalGlobe's second WorldView Earth-imaging satellite on a Delta II launch vehicle. DigitalGlobe is the provider of the world's highest-resolution commercial satellite imagery and geospatial information products. Boeing successfully launched the first satellite in the series, WorldView ... more Astronomers Listen To An Exoplanet-Host Star And Find Its Birthplace 
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 16, 2008By studying in great detail the 'ringing' of a planet-harbouring star, a team of astronomers using ESO's 3.6-m telescope have shown that it must have drifted away from the metal-rich Hyades cluster. This discovery has implications for theories of star and planet formation, and for the dynamics of our Milky Way. The yellow-orange star Iota Horologii, located 56 light-years away towards the ... more |
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St. Paul MN (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Digital Angel has announced that its McMurdo FASTFIND MAX PLB (Personal Locator Beacon) range, the MAX and the MAX G (with 12-channel GPS), has been awarded Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Type Approval certification, signaling the go-ahead for these PLBs to be sold in the U.S. McMurdo is one of the world's leading suppliers of emergency distress beacons. The MAX and MAX G, the ... more Guardian Technology Completes Integration With Thermo King Global 
Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Guardian Technology has completed its firmware integration with Thermo King single and multi-temp truck and trailer refrigeration units. This allows Guardian Technology to extract Thermo King reefer data and wirelessly transmit the information to dispatchers, fleet managers and drivers. The ReeferGuard unit connects directly to Thermo King's i-Box which is installed on the refrigeration ... more Rosum Secures Financing For Mobile TV And Home Telecommunications Markets 
Mountain View CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Rosum has announced that it has raised $15 million in new financing. Existing investors Charles River Ventures, Allegis Capital, Steamboat Ventures and KTB Ventures, and new investor TruePosition, Inc., a subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation, participated in this round of financing. Skip Speaks, Rosum CEO, commented, "In the past seven months, we have secured partnerships with Intel ... more USAF Awards ProLink Contract To Install ProLink GPS Systems On Seven Golf Courses 
Chandler AZ (SPX) Apr 17, 2008ProLink Solutions has announced that the United States Air Force has awarded ProLink a contract, valued at $3.7 Million, to install the ProLink Solutions GPS system, used at many of the world's leading golf courses, at seven golf courses located at Air Force bases throughout the Pacific region. The installations are expected to occur over the next sixty to ninety days. "We are excited that ... more Israel in new step towards anti-missile system 
Jerusalem (AFP) April 15, 2008Israel carried out a successful test on Tuesday of a dummy ballistic missile that will be used in the development of an advanced missile interception system, the defence ministry said. The Blue Sparrow, developed by Israel's Armament Development Authority, Rafael, is launched from a fighter jet at high altitude and simulates the trajectory of a ballistic missile, the ministry said in a state ... more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Twenty-eight arms control advocacy and religious organizations have called for a key House committee to stop the administration from building a new nuclear weapon. In a letter to the House Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee organized by the Friends Committee on National Legislation (Quakers), the groups warned that support for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW) program would serious ... more Raytheon Wins Contract For Global Positioning Receivers 
El Segundo CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Raytheon has won a $61 million U.S. Air Force contract to complete the development and certification of next-generation global positioning receivers. The contracting agency is the Global Positioning System Wing at the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles. Under the Modernized User Equipment program, the circuit card technology will connect military users with new ... more Raytheon Demonstrates Gallium Nitride Advantages In Radar Components 
Tewksbury MA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008Raytheon is developing transmit-receive modules based on the advanced semiconductor gallium nitride (GaN) for use in future radar upgrades. "This transmit-receive module demonstration and parallel reliability testing show that GaN will soon be ready to take over where increased power and advanced capabilities are needed," said Mark Russell, vice president of Engineering at Raytheon Integrated ... more Outside View: ABMs for Europe -- Part 2 
Moscow, April 16, 2008 There are some political and economic obstacles on the road to creating an effective ballistic-missile defense system for Europe. NATO members cannot agree what companies should supply the hardware -- radars for reconnaissance, detection and tracking, and for guidance of air-defense systems. Those in charge of the NATO BMD project cannot decide what air-defense systems they should buy ... more LockMart Receives Contract For UK Trident Missile Program 
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2008The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin a one-year, $15.5-million contract for continued program management and engineering services for the United Kingdom's Trident II D5 Fleet Ballistic Missile (FBM) program. The Royal Navy's Trident II D5 missiles, which are built by Lockheed Martin, are deployed aboard British-built Vanguard-class Trident ballistic missile submarines. "In concert ... more
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