November 27, 2006

November 27, 2006

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

RESCUE OPS OVER MARS

By CRAIG COVAULT

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Exploration Legacy

WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

DOUBT AS A WEAPON

By DAVID A. FULGHUM

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

RESCUE OPS OVER MARS

Lockheed Martin and JPL mobilize to save Mars Global Surveyor, drafting the rover Opportunity and two orbiters into rescue duty along with DSN support

By CRAIG COVAULT

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Exploration Legacy

CAPE CANAVERAL Mars Global Surveyor (MGS), with a powerful camera, thermal emission spectrometer and laser altimeter, was to be used for continuing science operations even though the new Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has much greater resolution and spectral capability.
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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

DOUBT AS A WEAPON

Lebanon fighting produced an information warfare coup for Hezbollah and Iran

By DAVID A. FULGHUM

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

F-35 Sensor Systems Maturing

Fusing of mission systems key to fighter’s combat effectiveness

By EDWARD H. PHILLIPS

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Chevaline Redux?

Desire for national strategic capability has U.K. seeking Trident follow-on input

By DOUGLAS BARRIE,AMY BUTLER

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Two Into Three Won't Go

Efforts to add third leg to a bilateral missile effort have so far failed to produce results

By DOUGLAS BARRIE,NEELAM MATHEWS

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

Networking the Weather Watch

PARIS Europe, the U.S. and China are teaming with the World Meteorological Organization to set up a global broadcasting system intended to make weather, climate and environmental data readily available at little cost to users worldwide.

By MICHAEL A. TAVERNA

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WORLD NEWS & ANALYSIS

New Faces

Freshman Senate Democrats get high-profile assignments

By JOHN M. DOYLE

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First Flight and Beyond

JSF POISED TO MOVE AHEAD

First flight of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter will move the multi-role supersonic stealth jet program a step closer to the goal of affordably replacing aging fighter and strike aircraft in the U.S. and allied countries. (The name “Lightning II” is a tip of the hat to Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning of World War II and English Electric’s Lightning supersonic fighter of the 1950s.)
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First Flight and Beyond

AEREA SUPPLYING NUMEROUS F-35 PRODUCTS

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