In the Best Tradition of “Me Too”…
But hey, as our saying goes – БУДЕТ наукой ракеты!
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Final DSP Satellite Lifted to Orbit on First Operational Delta IV Heavy Lift
The last of the 23-satellite Defense Support Program (DSP) satellites was lifted to orbit this past weekend on the newest heavy lift rocket in the US inventory. The Delta IV was developed as part of the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program to replace the previous workhorse of US military and commercial heavy lift, the Titan-family. Consisting…
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Valour-IT Challenge: It’s A Wrap
Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright, The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light, And somewhere men are laughing, and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out. Well – comes the time to settle one’s just debts and that’s…
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Fun With Code
So — how’d you spend your Sunday? Ours looked very much like this: as we spent the afternoon thinking the sort of thoughts we had left church in the AM foreswearing *ahem* Whomever said code is poetry must’ve been smoking crack…
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Valour-IT Challenge: It’s Not Over Yet!
Some teams are looking at a snapshot of the talleys thus far and think they’ve got it in the bag. *Ahem* Bluto says it best
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Flightdeck Friday: Sealegs
‘kay gang – final hours coming up here and we are rocket last (again) this year. Take a good look at the video and note the theme, ’cause if something doesn’t happen wth that total over there to starboard, next week’s issue of Flightdeck Friday will have a decidedly light (dare we say – dainty?)…
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Valour-IT Challenge: 11 Nov Update
(11 NOV) UPDATE: Final Day for the drive has been pushed to the right — now 12 NOV! While there has been good-natured snarking aplenty between and betwixt the four teams, we still shouldn’t lose sight of what this is all about. Quoted below is a letter received today which elegantly drives the point home. …
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Successful Aegis BMD Shot
A Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) is launched from the Pearl Harbor-based Aegis cruiser, USS Lake Erie (CG 70) on November 6, 2007 enroute to an intercept as part of a Missile Defense Agency test of the Sea-based capability under development, yet tactically certified and deployed with the U.S. Navy. This was a multiple simultaneous engagement involving…
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Pilot Missing From the Vietnam War is Identified
(ed. More about the FAC mission in Laos may be found at www.ravens.org. – SJS) The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from the Vietnam War, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is…
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Valour-IT: Pulling Out the Rods
Current Status by Team Place a bid for some really neat stuff here OK folks, time to get serious — forget about cute, fuzzy kittens or dogs in dire straits. We need to see some serious action in the funds column…or the COD gets it: … And ALL my seagoing buds know what happens…