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Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 Completes Captive Flight Test SeriesFarnborough, United Kingdom (SPX) Jul 26, 2010 The U.S. Navy completed a series of three captive flight tests on Raytheon's Joint Standoff Weapon C-1, putting the program closer to achieving initial operating capability in 2012. JSOW is a family of low-cost, air-to-ground weapons that employs an integrated GPS- inertial navigation system and terminal imaging infrared seeker, guiding the weapon to the target. JSOW C-1 adds moving maritime target capability and the two-way Strike Common Weapon Datalink (SCWDL) to the combat-proven weapon. ... read more |
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Atlanta GA (SPX) Jul 13, 2010EMS Aviation has announced that its FLEET tracking system is being used by Florida-based Heliworks Inc. to help rescue birds endangered by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Contracted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to search for affected birds and lead rescuers to their locations, Heliworks operates Bell 206Ls equipped with the EMS Aviation FLEET tracking system. The helico ... more  
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2010NASA-funded researchers monitoring Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier report that a 7 square kilometer (2.7 square mile) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7. The calving front - where the ice sheet meets the ocean - retreated nearly 1.5 kilometers (a mile) in one day and is now further inland than at any time previously observed. The chunk of lost ice is roughly one-eighth t ... more 
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 09, 2010A research group from the UAB Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering, led by Jose Lopez Vicario and Antoni Morell, took part in the development of a new system which locates unoccupied car park spaces and guides users to the nearest one. The new network of sensors for the management of public car parks and locations, which researchers have nam ... more |
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Flying The North BasinMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 06, 2010 I arrived at Pavilion Lake late yesterday afternoon. The first thing I need to say is that it's incredibly beautiful here. And it's actually quite peaceful despite the presence of a bustling swarm of some 50 scientists, engineers, astronauts and graduate students, submarines, scuba equipment, laptops, still and video camera equipment, hard drives, power cords, power generators, and a temporary wireless Internet that makes this normally isolated location as connected as a cafe in Manhattan. Yesterd ... read more |
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