Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
October 28, 2010
RAY GUNS
Boeing Installing Beam Control System On HEL Laser Demonstrator
Huntsville, AL (SPX) Oct 26, 2010
Boeing reports that its High Energy Laser Technology Demonstrator (HEL TD) team in Huntsville is installing subassemblies on the Oshkosh Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck (HEMTT), while a HEL TD team in Albuquerque, N.M., is integrating the laser beam director assembly with the beam control system. These technical integration tasks are being performed to prepare for installation of the beam control system on the HEMTT later this year. HEL TD is a solid-state laser system demonstrator th ... read more

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SPACE WORLD 2010: Successful Premiere at the Exhibition Centre Frankfurt/Main
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NUKEWARS

US drawing up new, tougher nuclear deal for Iran: report
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MILTECH

Contract Awarded For New Battlefield Radar Requirement
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MILTECH

LM Takes Lion's Share Of Sniper Pod ATP-Sensor Enhancement Contract
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.
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CYBER WARS

Boeing And NREL To Collaborate On DOD Energy Security
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MISSILE NEWS

ATK Awarded Components Contract For AAR-47 Missile Warning System
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MISSILE DEFENSE

Taking Steps To Assure Continuity For Ground Based Midcourse Defense
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MILITARY COMMUNICATIONS

Sagem Prime Contractor For RIF-NG New-Gen Soldier Info Network
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MILTECH

Sikorsky Commits To Build X2 Rotary Wing Technology Prototypes
Sikorsky Aircraft will design, build and fly two prototype light tactical helicopters as the follow-on advancement to the X2 Technology demonstrator aircraft that unofficially shattered the helicopt ... more
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FLOATING STEEL

DRS Completes DDG 51 Hybrid Electric Drive Motor
DRS Technologies has announced the successful completion of assembly and component-level testing of its Hybrid Electric Drive (HED) permanent-magnet (PM) motor, a key element of a prototype Hybrid E ... more
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UAV NEWS

US drone strike kills three in Pakistan: officials
A US drone strike targeted members of the Haqqani network in Pakistan's tribal badlands on Wednesday, killing at least three militants and blowing their a car into a fireball, officials said. ... more
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UAV NEWS

IAI Offers New Ultra Light MiniPOP Payload For UAVs
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is introducing the newest member of its MiniPOP (plug-in optronic payload) family: the Ultra Light MiniPOP. The new lightweight MiniPOP payload is manufactured usin ... more
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FLOATING STEEL

CASSIDIAN Protects German Navy Ships With Latest ID Systems
Cassidian, the recently re-named defence and security pillar of EADS, protects German Navy ships with identification systems to avoid confrontations with unknown aircraft. With the equipping of the ... more
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MISSILE NEWS
Aerojet Technology Flight Tested To Replace DPICM Submunitions
Sacramento CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2010
Aerojet has demonstrated its alternative warhead technologies in a tactical missile flight environment. The successful demonstrations were conducted to test Aerojet's solution to eliminate unexploded ordnance (UXO) on the U.S. Army's Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS). The three-mission, missile-launched warhead tests were the first live-fire, missile-delivered performance tests ... more

TERROR WARS
Japan to test walk-through explosive sniffers during APEC
Tokyo (AFP) Oct 27, 2010
Japan will test new "walk-through" bomb detectors that can pick up minute traces of explosives when the country hosts an Asia-Pacific summit next month, government officials said Wednesday. The system, still in the development and test phase, will be installed on November 12-14 at a train station in Yokohama near Tokyo, the venue for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, offic ... more

SUPERPOWERS
Russia wants deal with NATO on troop deployment caps: report
Moscow (AFP) Oct 27, 2010
Russia wants NATO to refrain from deploying "substantial" troops in the military bloc's new member states and has drafted a legally binding agreement to that effect, a report said on Wednesday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov handed the draft to NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen last December but the two sides have been unable to agree a definition of "substantial combat fo ... more

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MISSILE DEFENSE

US stresses will to cooperate with Russia on missile shield

FLOATING STEEL

China expands naval fleet to 'safeguard sea rights': report


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TIME AND SPACE
Planets Discovered Around Elderly Binary Star

Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot On An Exoplanet

New techniqe aiding planet searches

TIME AND SPACE
Minds control computers in study

Plant-Based Plastics Not Necessarily Greener Than Oil-Based Relatives

Two Dissimilar Materials Display Unexpected Magnetism

TIME AND SPACE
'Exorbitant' price talk for Galileo maps way off beam: EU

Russia To Launch 8 Glonass Navigation Satellites In 2011-2013

S.Africa implants GPS chips in rhino horns to fight poaching

TIME AND SPACE
China says manned space station possible around 2020

China Kicks Off Manned Space Station Program

NASA chief says pleased with 'comprehensive' China visit

TIME AND SPACE
Ocean asteroid impact could deplete ozone

NASA Cameras Spot Meteors From Obscure Camelopardalis Shower

No Evidence Found Of Catastrophic Impact In Pleistocene

TIME AND SPACE
Contract Signing Gives Galileo System Its Operators

Countdown To Comet Flyby Down To Nine Days

New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft

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NUKEWARS
North Korea gets lowest grade on 'nuclear arms report card'
Washington (AFP) Oct 27, 2010
North Korea got a failing grade, with Iran and Syria not far behind, in the first nuclear arms control report card released Wednesday by the independent US-based Arms Control Association (ACA). "North Korea, which has violated nearly every non-proliferation and disarmament standard over the past two years, warrants an overall grade of 'F'," ACA executive director Daryl Kimball told reporters. North Korea failed all but three of the 10 equally-weighted categories used to calculate the overall gra ... read more

NUKEWARS
US stresses will to cooperate with Russia on missile shield

Taking Steps To Assure Continuity For Ground Based Midcourse Defense

Turkey, Raytheon enter Patriot system deal

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NUKEWARS
Aerojet Technology Flight Tested To Replace DPICM Submunitions

ATK Awarded Components Contract For AAR-47 Missile Warning System

First Live-Firing For Gripen Fire Meteor Program

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NUKEWARS
US drone strike kills three in Pakistan: officials

IAI Offers New Ultra Light MiniPOP Payload For UAVs

AeroVironment Global Observer Stratospheric UAV Completes Initial Testing

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NUKEWARS
Sagem Prime Contractor For RIF-NG New-Gen Soldier Info Network

First MEADS Intra-Fire Unit Communications Hardware Delivered

Raytheon Reaches Milestone In Naval SATCOM Program

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NUKEWARS
Sikorsky Commits To Build X2 Rotary Wing Technology Prototypes

LM Takes Lion's Share Of Sniper Pod ATP-Sensor Enhancement Contract

Contract Awarded For New Battlefield Radar Requirement

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