SBIRS constellation forms under one roof
Buckley AFB CO (AFNS) Feb 20, 2015 -
Airmen from the 460th Operations Group have made history by successfully completing the first series of Space Based Infrared System satellite and antenna communication on Jan. 28-30 from Block 10, the new operations floor, on Buckley Air Force Base, Colo.
The communication to SBIRS satellites and ground antennas is the first step in transforming Block 10 into the new, consolodated operat ...
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Leaders share messages, priorities at AFA Symposium
Patrick AFB FL (AFNS) Feb 20, 2015 -
Let me begin by congratulating SpaceX, NASA, NOAA, all our mission partners and "Team Patrick-Cape" on their picture-perfect launch last week of NASA's Deep Space Climate Observatory - known as the DSCOVR mission - from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Great job by the entire TEAM!
Let's switch gears and share some important messages and priorities we took with ...
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Rheinmetall supplying airburst munitions to German Army
Dusseldorf, Germany (UPI) Feb 19, 2015 -
Electronically programmable 40mm airburst munitions have been ordered by the Germany Army from Rheinmetall under a multimillion-dollar contract.
The 40mm x 53 munition, designated by Rheinmetall as the DM131, is fired from an automatic grenade launcher and has a maximum effective range of about 2,400 yards.
An infrared signal from a fire control/aiming unit detonates the projecti ...
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Malaysia PM calls policeman's claims in 2006 murder 'rubbish'
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Feb 19, 2015 -
Malaysia's prime minister on Thursday dismissed as "rubbish" a former police commando's claim that he was ordered by "important people" to kill a woman linked to highly sensitive corruption allegations.
"It's total rubbish. Total rubbish," Prime Minister Najib Razak, in a rare comment on the affair, said in a brief remark to reporters, according to news website Malaysian Insider.
Policem ...
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Industry: Risk aversion costs more than 'fast failure'
Orlando, Fla. (UPI) Feb 13, 2015 -
Representatives from some the nation's largest defense firms agreed a culture of risk aversion at the Pentagon is costing the American taxpayer more than "fast failure."
Speaking on the topic of innovation in the 21st century at the Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition, representatives from Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Raytheon, Aurora Flight Sciences and Pratt ...
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Riyadh talks seek stronger Iraqi army: Western source
Riyadh (AFP) Feb 19, 2015 -
Military chiefs from two dozen countries gathered in the Saudi capital Thursday sought to bolster the Iraqi army against the jihadist Islamic State group, a Western diplomat said.
US General Lloyd Austin, who heads the US-led war against IS, was among the senior officers attending the two-day talks that opened Wednesday behind closed doors.
"I'm confident that they are looking at a firm ...
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Nuclear deterrent important in 'dangerous world', says Hollande
Istres, France (AFP) Feb 19, 2015 -
President Francois Hollande on Thursday stressed the importance of maintaining the country's nuclear deterrent in "a dangerous world", as he detailed France's atomic arsenal for the first time.
His comments were quickly shot down by the French branch of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), which said that far from making the world a safer place, they made it more dan ...
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The origin of the magnetic field covering the Sun has been discovered
Granada, Spain (SPX) Feb 20, 2015 -
The magnetic field that covers the Sun and determines its behavior -the eleven year cycles no less than such conspicuous phenomena as solar spots and solar storms- also has another side to it: a magnetic web that covers the entire surface of the Sun at rest and whose net magnetic flow is greater than that of the active areas. A study led by the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) h ...
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MAVEN Completes First Deep Dip Campaign
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 20, 2015 -
NASA'S Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution has completed the first of five deep-dip maneuvers designed to gather measurements closer to the lower end of the Martian upper atmosphere.
"During normal science mapping, we make measurements between an altitude of about 150 km and 6,200 km (93 miles and 3,853 miles) above the surface," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator at the U ...
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