(EMAILWIRE.COM, February 09, 2002 ) The Boeing Company's [NYSE:BA] $133 million contract to upgrade the radar system of France's fleet of four E-3 AWACS aircraft will be the most significant upgrade to the fleet since its delivery in the early 1990s. It also will bring the French surveillance radar...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 30, 2002 ) Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. (NASDAQ: TCNO), the leading provider of Manufacturing Process Management (MPM) software solutions, announced today that Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) has completed its Computer-Aided Planning Project (CAPP), designed to integrate...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, January 23, 2002 ) International Rectifier Corporation (NYSE: IRF), a world leader in power management technology, announced the development of new power semiconductor devices targeting the next generation of flight aircraft, including the joint Strike Fighter designated as the F35....
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 21, 2001 ) EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Integrated Systems sector has been awarded a $15.7 million contract to continue studies under NASA's Space Launch Initiative (SLI), a research and development effort to develop technologies for a second-generation...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 12, 2001 ) SAN DIEGO -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) Integrated Systems sector successfully conducted a flight test on Dec. 11 of the Miniature Air Launch Interceptor (MALI) at the Naval Air Weapons Division, China Lake, Calif. The interceptor is designed to...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 27, 2001 ) MELBOURNE, Fla. -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) today announced the delivery of the next Block 20 E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS) aircraft to the U.S. Air Force, nearly two months ahead of schedule. This is the eighth...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 19, 2001 ) ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. ---- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE: NOC) first Increased Capability III EA-6B Prowler aircraft logged a successful 1-hour, 45-minute first flight on Nov. 16. The aircraft is one of two prototypes being modified here by Northrop Grumman's...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 27, 2001 ) The Pentagon announced on October 26 that an international team led by Lockheed Martin has won the competition to build the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a stealthy, supersonic, multirole fighter designed for the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, as well as the...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 04, 2001 ) Boeing Satellite Systems, a unit of The Boeing Company (NYSE: BA), signed a contract on September 28, 2001 with Space Communications Corporation (SCC) of Tokyo, Japan for a Boeing 601 communications satellite. The satellite, designated SUPERBIRD-6, is scheduled to...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 15, 2001 ) Today at Boeing's International Technology Symposium at the Parc des Expositions, Boeing unveiled the first animated graphics of its Sonic Cruiser, the revolutionary new passenger aircraft that will fly faster, higher and farther than today's commercial airplanes. It...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, June 07, 2001 ) The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced its proposal to bring fundamental change to an air traffic system that frequently is overwhelmed by sheer numbers of flights and weather disruptions. As summer approaches, increased air travel and convective weather once...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 20, 2001 ) NASA announced the first round of contract awards in an agency initiative to find a more affordable and reliable highway into space. The Space Launch Initiative (SLI) is a research and development effort designed to substantially improve safety and reduce the high cost...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, May 16, 2001 ) A micro-thruster array measuring one-quarter the size of a penny, designed by a TRW-led team (TRW:NYSE) for use on micro-, nano- and pico-satellites, has successfully demonstrated its functionality in a live fire test aboard a Scorpius sub-orbital sounding rocket.
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 19, 2001 ) -- XM-2, a Boeing 702 satellite - designated "Rock" -- built for XM Satellite Radio, Inc. was successfully launched Sunday, March 18, 2001 on board Sea Launch platform at the Equator in the Pacific Ocean. Liftoff occurred at 2:33 p.m. PST, and the spacecraft's...
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(EMAILWIRE.COM, March 02, 2001 ) As European air traffic increases year on year and flights are forecasted to rise from 8.5 million to 17 million by 2015*, the European Space Agency and a consortium of European companies led by Alcatel of France are embarking on a satellite communication system development...
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