The National Science Foundation’s Green Bank Observatory (GBO) and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), and Raytheon Intelligence & Space conducted a test in November to prove that a new radio telescope system can capture high-resolution images in near-Earth space. Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-01-successful-paves-planetary-radar.html…
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Lockheed Martin Acquires Aerojet Rocketdyne For $4.4 Billion
Lockheed Martin has agreed to buy Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4 billion in cash (including assumed debt). From a report: This reflects how legacy defense companies are racing to keep up with Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in space, a dynamic that also helped drive Raytheon’s merger effort with United Technologies. Plus, this is the exact type of company that will be…
Salesforce To Join Dow Jones, Replacing Exxon, As Tech Rises, Energy Falls
jmcbain writes: The benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average, a selection of 30 companies that aims to represent U.S. industries at large, is going to have its largest change in seven years. Notably, Salesforce will replace Exxon on the DJIA (and Amgen and Honeywell will replace Pfizer and Raytheon), marking the end of Exxon’s 92-year stay on the index. CNBC notes that…
The US Army Wants To Microwave Drones in Midair
“The U.S. Army, as part of a broad counter-unmanned aerial systems strategy, is pushing forward with the U.S. Air Force to develop a high-powered microwave weapon,” reports Popular Mechanics: Microwave radiation can disrupt or destroy electronic equipment exposed to them, “cooking” internal circuits much in the same way a fork or other metal objects placed in a microwave oven will cause…