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Emirates, Bahrain seek U.S. rocket systemsAbu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Nov 29, 2010 As concerns about Iran's military power among Arab states in the Persian Gulf mount, the United Arab Emirates and tiny Bahrain are acquiring U.S.-built long-range artillery rocket systems amid a major arms buildup to counter the Islamic Republic. The two states on the western shore of the gulf, both major regional financial centers, are in the process of amassing 130 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, which are GPS-guided rockets with a range of more than 100 miles. They ... read more |
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  Boeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System Boeing has announced it has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable of near real-time, 360-degree detection of optical threats. The system identifies when friendly forces ... more | .. |
  Boeing Offers New Surveillance Detection System Boeing has begun offering a Surveillance Detection System (SDS) capable of near real-time, 360-degree detection of optical threats. The system identifies when friendly forces are being monitored or ... more | .. |
  NASA's Newest Microsatellite FASTSAT Launches NASA's Fast, Affordable, Science and Technology Satellite, or FASTSAT, launched at 7:25 p.m. CST Friday aboard a Minotaur IV rocket from Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. FASTSAT is a ... more | .. |
  New Simulator Offers Ability To Record And Replay GLONASS And GPS Responding to the increasing need for developers of GNSS devices to be able to test GLONASS enabled systems, Racelogic have launched LabSat 2: a dual channel unit capable of recording, replaying, an ... more |
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  The International Space Weather Initiative Prompted by a recent increase in solar activity, more than a hundred researchers and government officials are converging on Helwan, Egypt, to discuss a matter of global importance: storms from the s ... more | .. |
  LockMart Submits Bid For Space Fence Lockheed Martin has submitted its proposal for the next phase of Space Fence, a program that will revamp the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and tracks objects in space. Space Fence will use ... more | .. |
  Danger zone reduced as Indonesian eruption weakens The deadly eruption of Indonesia's Mount Merapi has weakened allowing the government to further reduce the restriction zone around the mountain, a volcanologist said Friday. ... more | .. |
 Months Of Geologic Unrest Signaled Reawakening Of Icelandic Volcano Months of volcanic restlessness preceded the eruptions this spring of Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, providing insight into what roused it from centuries of slumber. An international team ... more |
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 Russia To Launch New Generation Satellite In 2013 Russia's next generation Glonass-K2 navigation satellite will be launched in 2013, Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, said on Tuesday. "We have decided to modernize the Glonass signal s ... more | .. |
 SkyTraq Introduces New GLONASS/GPS Receiver SkyTraq introduces S4554GNS, a high-performance low- power GLONASS/GPS receiver. The 88-channel receiver features industry leading 29 second cold start TTFF, -155dBm tracking, and -145dBm cold start ... more | .. |
 Icelandic volcano: Scientists map anatomy of an eruption The eruption of Eyjafjoell, the Icelandic volcano which grounded flights across Europe this year, followed a long, threatening warm-up in which the mountain growled and its icy flanks bulged, scientists said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Virtual Reality Helps Researchers Track How Brain Responds To Surroundings New tools inspired by video games are revealing how the brain senses and responds to its surroundings, finds new human and animal research. Taking advantage of state-of-the art technologies to ... more |
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 SES To Contribute To Galileo Operations Global satellite operator SES S.A. has become a key partner in the future operations of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system. ASTRA TechCom Services, an SES company, has signed a contr ... more | .. |
 GPS IIF-1 Introduces A Host Of New Capabilities For Users There's no satellite system that touches so many lives in so many ways around the world like the Global Positioning System. From finance to farming, from ATMs to UAVs, from rescue missions to shoppi ... more | .. |
  Israel's scientists think big with the very, very small A material just one atom thick that is stronger than steel but flexes like rubber. A "mini-submarine" that can trick the immune system and deliver a payload of chemotherapy deep inside a tumour. ... more | .. |
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 Lockheed Martin Delivers Key GPS III Test Hardware Ahead of Schedule The Lockheed Martin-led team developing the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS III) has completed the program's first contract deliverable ahead of schedule, by shipping the GPS III Bus ... more | .. |
 iPhone triggers videogame gold rush The commercial tsunami unleashed by the iPhone has served as a launch pad for the videogame industry in Montreal, which hopes to seize on the success of Apple's smartphone. ... more | .. |
  China launching spacecraft at record rate China put a navigation satellite in orbit in the 12th space launch of the year, eclipsing its own record for most space missions in a year, authorities said. ... more | .. |
 SAIC Launches Advanced Intelligence Multimedia Exploitation Suite Science Applications International has announced it has launched the Advanced Intelligence Multimedia Exploitation Suite (AIMES). The new motion imagery exploitation system enables intelligence anal ... more |
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 Few Americans using location-based services: Pew study Foursquare is one of the hottest tech startups around but few Americans are using it or similar location-based services, according to a report released on Thursday. ... more | .. |
  After bitter row, Google launches Street View in Germany Following months of controversy over privacy, US Internet giant Google put its first images from Germany online Tuesday as part of its Street View navigation service. ... more | .. |
 GPS maker Garmin hanging up on smartphones GPS maker Garmin is abandoning the smart phone business after failing to find its way in the highly competitive sector with a handset released a year ago. ... more | .. |
  National Space Society Announces The Kalam-NSS Energy Initiative The National Space Society will hold a press conference Thursday, November 4 at the National Press Club to reveal one of the first initiatives ever undertaken by a non-profit American organization a ... more |
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