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Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company, contributed to the nation's security by boosting a classified spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on January 17.
Read MoreIsrael Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) and Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:ESLT) have announced that their respective subsidiaries, ELTA Systems Ltd. (ELTA) and Elbit Systems Electro-Optics Elop Ltd. (Elbit Systems Electro-Optics) have been awarded a $141 million contract ($54 million awarded to ELTA and $87 million awarded to Elbit Systems Electro-Optics) to supply the Turkish Air Force with combined airborne IMINT (Imagery Intelligence) systems.
Read MoreCanada is set to ramp up surveillance of insurgent activity and boost safety for its troops in Afghanistan with the arrival this week of the first in a fleet of new long-range aerial drones.
Read MoreChina has launched a new remote sensing satellite from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, the fifth satellite in the YaoGan series and developed by the China Academy of Space Technology, was launched by a CZ-4B Chang Zheng-4B rocket at 03:22 UTC yesterday morning.
Read MoreElbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:ESLT) announced their 70 percent-owned subsidiary, Elisra Electronic Systems Ltd. (Elisra), was awarded a $60 million contract to supply an Airborne Surveillance System to a European country.
Read MoreThe German military has established its own spy satellite system by commissioning its first synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) system in Grafschaft, a small town in western Germany, yesterday.
Read MoreAccording to the Russian news agency, Itar-Tass, a Molnia-M launch vehicle of the medium class blasted off on Tuesday from the Plesetsk cosmodrome to put into orbit a military spacecraft of the Kosmos series, Itar-Tass learned from chief of the public relations service of the Space Troops Alexei Zolotukhin.
Read MoreThe Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Flight 16 (F16) Block 5D-3 spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT], has now surpassed five years of on-orbit operations.
Read MoreThe U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center (Army TEC) has awarded a contract extension to Flight Landata Inc. of North Andover, Massachusetts, for the continuation of the BuckEye aerial imaging services in Afghanistan.
Read MoreHarris Corporation (NYSE: HRS) has received a US$140 million order to provide systems integration and information technology (IT) services to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).
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