News tagged with missile program

US fixed drones hacked by Iraqi insurgents: Pentagon

The US military has fixed a problem that allowed Iraqi militants to use cheap software to intercept the video feeds of US-operated drones, a defense official said on Thursday.

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created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

NKorea rocket launch partial success: US expert

North Korea's rocket launch is a partial technological success on the way to building a long-range missile, even if Pyongyang failed to put a satellite in orbit, the former director of the US missile defense agency said ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 4




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Splat! Geek-in-chief Obama tests marshmallow gun

US President Barack Obama tested a new prototype Tuesday for his commander-in-chief's arsenal -- a high-powered marshmallow gun that sent a tasty missile screaming through the White House.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Navy to begin tests on electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher

The Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Electromagnetic (EM) Railgun program will take an important step forward in the coming weeks when the first industry railgun prototype launcher is tested at a facility ...

Technology / Engineering

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (22) | comments 95 | with audio podcast

NuSTAR spacecraft arrives in California

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Friday morning after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporation ...

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created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Doomsday' ticks closer on nuclear, climate fears

Global uncertainty on how to deal with the threats of nuclear weapons and climate change have forced the "Doomsday clock" one minute closer to midnight, leading international scientists said Tuesday.

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created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 9

Lowell Randall, rocket scientist, dies at 96 in NM

(AP) -- Lowell Randall, a pioneer rocket scientist who helped launched the U.S. space program and tested intercontinental ballistic missiles, has died. He was 96.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed

For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.

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created Dec 25, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 11

DARPA's new spy satellite could provide real-time video from anywhere on Earth

“It sees you when you’re sleeping and knows when you’re awake” could be the theme song for a new spy satellite being developed by DARPA. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s ...

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created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 16

National security expert warns of Asian space race

(PhysOrg.com) -- James Clay Moltz, an associate professor in the department of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, has published a commentary paper in the journal ...

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created Dec 08, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 54 | with audio podcast report

The human cost of Russia's lost spacecraft

It hasn’t been a great year for Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. In the last twelve months, it has lost four major missions on top of the aerospace industry’s failure to produce its planned ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 44

Pentagon successfully tests hypersonic flying bomb

The Pentagon on Thursday held a successful test flight of a flying bomb that travels faster than the speed of sound and will give military planners the ability to strike targets anywhere in the world in less than a hour.

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (21) | comments 180


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