Satellite smasher back at Pearl From Honolulu Advertiser Randall Hendrickson, commander of the USS Lake Erie, walks among the hatches of the ship's missile launching system. The guided missile cruiser USS Lake Erie pulled into Pearl Harbor yesterday with scorch marks where a modified $9.5 million missile flew from one of its forward hatches on Wednesday and destroyed a doomed U.S. spy satellite orbiting in space. The Lake Erie had been running drills for the past six weeks to destroy the satellite as it flew 133 miles above the ocean at more than...

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Aerospace/Defense New Orders Jumpstart Force Protection Shares From TheStreet.com Shares of Force Protection FRPT surged 20% Friday after the beleaguered military-vehicle maker snagged nearly $124 million in new orders. Gordon McGilton's departure comes after a series of missteps that have left the vehicle maker sputtering. After several setbacks, the military vehicle maker is rolling down an uncertain road. Shares plunge as rivals steal the military vehicle maker's share of contracts.

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Aerospace Defense Cos with Buy Ratings From www.zacks.com/ Joining us today is Zacks senior equities analyst John Nelson Simon, who is here to give his outlook on the aerospace and defense industries. On the defense side, people are concerned of what might happen when there s a different regime in Washington. I did go back with an associate of mine and look at what happened when other new airplanes were coming into the market, and a lot of the people who were principal suppliers on the other airplanes the stocks sank until the first delivery...

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Teledyne Technologies To Present At Cowen's Aerospace/Defense ... From www.aerospaceonline.com/ Teledyne Electronics and Communications Segment, and Jason VanWees, vice president, corporate development and investor relations, will make a presentation at the Cowen and Company 29th Annual Aerospace/Defense Conference on Tuesday, February 5, at 3:30 p.m. (Eastern) at the InterContinental The Barclay New York in New York City.

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The detection of carbon nanotubes and workplace safety From www.nanowerk.com/ ( Nanowerk Spotlight ) More and more carbon nanotube (CNT) applications are moving from the research lab into commercial products. While a kilogram of multi-walled CNTs (MWCNTs) sold for tens of thousands of dollars just a few years ago (and single-walled CNTs still do), the price for some types of MWCNTs has fallen to hundreds of dollars per kg. While one study reported good news (" New nanotube findings give boost to potential biomedical applications" ) another did the opposite (...

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