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US Laser "Raygun" Plane Shoots Down Ballistic MissileEdwards AFB (SPX) Feb 15, 2010 Boeing and industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have successfully demonstrated the speed, precision and breakthrough potential of directed-energy weapons when the Airborne Laser Testbed (ALTB) engaged and destroyed a boosting ballistic missile. This experiment marks the first time a laser weapon has engaged and destroyed an in-flight ballistic missile, and the first time that any system has accomplished it in the missile's boost phase of flight. ALTB has the highest-energy laser ... read more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Feb 15, 2010A dramatic new image from the Gemini North telescope illustrates the dynamic and sometimes violent process of star birth. It also demonstrates the capabilities of new filters available to researchers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS). Known as Sharpless 2-106 (Sh2-106), the hourglass-shaped nebula in the new Gemini image is a stellar nursery made up of glowing gas and light ... more  
Vildbjerg, Denmark (SPX) Feb 15, 2010Boeing has launched an industrial-cooperation project to assist Multicut, a high-end machining firm based in Vildbjerg, as it pursues AS/EN 9100 certification. This project supports the Boeing industrial-cooperation program that is tied to Denmark's New Combat Aircraft competition. The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter is a finalist in the contest. The project began with a Boein ... more 
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 15, 2010University of Arizona astronomers have helped solve a mystery surrounding the birth of stars in galaxies that has long puzzled scientists. Their results are published in Nature. "We have known for more than a decade that in the early universe - three to five billion years after the Big Bang or nine to eleven billion years before today - galaxies churned out new stars at a much faster rate ... more |
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Russian satellite breaks up over perplexed MexicansPachuca, Mexico (AFP) Feb 11, 2010 A loud explosion and ball of fire that people in central Mexico reported seeing in the sky was actually a Russian satellite plunging back to earth, experts said Thursday. "We think it was the space wreckage of a Russian satellite that was catalogued by the Department of Defense of the United States and which we knew could pass over Mexican territory," said Fernando de la Peno, an engineer who is also a chief proponent of establishing a Mexican space agency. Reports of a large meteorite reached M ... read more |
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