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March 17, 2010
FLOATING STEEL
Northrop Grumman To Supply Integrated Bridge Systems For New Indian Navy Fleet Tankers
Charlottesville VA (SPX) Mar 17, 2010
Northrop Grumman has been selected to supply integrated bridge systems (IBS) for two new fleet tankers being built in Italy for the Indian Navy. The IBS orders were placed with Northrop Grumman's Sperry Marine unit by the Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri, which is under contract to build the two tankers at its shipyards in Liguria and Palermo. Terms of the contract for the IBS were not disclosed. Each of the ships will be fitted with a complete Sperry Marine VisionMaster FT IBS, incl ... read more

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TECTONICS

Northern Chile Observatory To Monitor Last Seismic Gap
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Solar 'Conveyor Belt' Runs At Record-High Speeds
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SHAKE AND BLOW

Did The Chilean Quake Shift Earth's Axis
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TECH SPACE

Three FASTSAT Instruments Pass Tests
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Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

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EARTH OBSERVATION

Lockheed Martin Wins Contract To Build GeoEye-2
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DISASTER MANAGEMENT

USGS Scientists Research Help Haiti Reconstruction
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MARSDAILY

Opportunity Driving Away From Concepcion Crater
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MILTECH

Northrop Grumman Demonstrates LITENING Targeting System On US Navy F/A-18E/F
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GPS NEWS

Russia, India May Jointly Make Glonass, GPS Navigation Devices
TECTONICS

Cities In Motion
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MARSDAILY

Lava Likely Made River-Like Channel On Mars
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NUKEWARS

Petraeus warns Iran becoming 'thugocracy'
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LAUNCH PAD

NASA's high-tech GOES-P weather satellite lifts off
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Google launches 'Street View' charm offensive
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WEATHER REPORT
NASA to launch latest high-tech weather satellite
Washington (AFP) March 3, 2010
The United States is poised to launch Thursday the latest in its family of high-tech meteorological satellites that watch storm development and weather conditions on Earth from high in space. The launch window for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) will open at 6:17 pm (2317 GMT) on Thursday and close an hour later, US space agency NASA said in a statement. ... more

GPS NEWS
Russia Launches Proton-M Carrier Rocket With 3 Glonass Satellites
Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Mar 03, 2010
A Proton-M carrier rocket bearing three Glonass satellites was launched from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan early on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Space Forces said. "A Proton-M carrier rocket with three Glonass satellites was successfully launched from a launching pad at the Baikonur space center on March 2 at 0:19 Moscow time [22:19 GMT, March 1]," Alexei Zolotukhin said. G ... more

GPS NEWS
Russia launches three new navigation satellites: report
Moscow (AFP) March 1, 2010
A Russian Proton-M rocket was launched into space Monday with three new satellites for Moscow's GLONASS navigation system, aimed at competing with US and European systems, a report said. The satellites were placed into orbit after the rocket blasted off from Russia's Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan at 2119 GMT, a Russian space agency spokesman said, according to the Ria-Novosti news agency ... more

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TECH SPACE

Satellites, Rockets And More

GPS NEWS

Rosum And Siano Take GPS Indoors Using TV Signals


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Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar
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MISSILE NEWS
500th Directional Infrared Countermeasures System Delivered

LockMart Awarded Continues Production Of Symphony IED Jammer Systems

Boeing Gets Big Order For Joint Direct Attack Munition Kits

MISSILE NEWS
India's missile shield test fails: officials

Israelis worry about their missile shield

Aegis Weapon System Tested During International Multiple Ship Demonstration

MISSILE NEWS
Belarus touts anti-air defense system for Venezuela

Raytheon Awarded Contract For SLAMRAAM Long-Lead Purchases

France buys U.S. missiles, upgrades army

MISSILE NEWS
Joint Strike Fighter cost may top 100 million dollars: US

Czech firm to build Black Hawk cockpits: report

US brushes aside notion of protectionism in tanker contract

MISSILE NEWS
Avatars In Space

Japanese baby-bot with runny nose teaches parenting skills

Chatty robots, flying alarm clocks at top high-tech fair

MISSILE NEWS
Bangladesh slaughters 117,000 birds over avian flu

World could soon shield most newborns from HIV: Global Fund

Climate Change One Factor In Malaria Spread

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SPACEWAR
A Successful Year For Space Command Transition
Peterson AFB CO (AFNS) Mar 02, 2010
The commander of Air Force Space Command highlighted the command's achievements in his Year in Review - 2009 memorandum Feb. 10. Gen. C. Robert Kehler said in a year defined by mission shifts, the more than 46,000 people of Air Force Space Command chose to thrive, allowing joint forces to navigate with accuracy, see with clarity, communicate with certainty, strike with precision and operate with assurance. "I credit the sharp and steadfast men and women of Air Force Space Command with our unpreced ... read more

SPACEWAR
First A400M Ferried From Seville To Toulouse

F-35B STOVL-Mode Flight

Circumpolar Balloon Flights From Esrange Space Center

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SPACEWAR
The California Air Resources Board Approves EVI Zero Emission Vehicles

Japan auto, power giants target global electric car standard

Seoul unveils electric vehicle

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SPACEWAR
UK Buys Another Skynet 5 Military Comms Satellite

NATS Services, Thales UK And VT Group Announce JMATS Agreement

Third WGS Satellite Passes On-Orbit Tests

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SPACEWAR
India's missile shield test fails: officials

Israelis worry about their missile shield

Aegis Weapon System Tested During International Multiple Ship Demonstration

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SPACEWAR
Scientific Breakthrough In Genetic Studies Of Animal Domestication

Tuna ban: EU squabbling, China opposed

Bordeaux vintners look to Asia to drain cellars

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