<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/ee043fb2-6515-4119-8bfb-76adefc54a5d/30EC3C46-0305-458C-A8F1-2A613ABF3ACA/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Ships_ARTEMIS_Sensor_For_On_Demand_Surveillance_From_Space_999.html" href="http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Ships_ARTEMIS_Sensor_For_On_Demand_Surveillance_From_Space_999.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.spacewar.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Ships_ARTEMIS_Sensor_For_On_Demand_Surveillance_From_Space_999.html"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD><IMG vspace="2" hspace="0" align="right" src="http://www.spacewar.com/images/artemis-marker-bg.jpg" /><BR clear="all" /><SPAN class="BL">The ARTEMIS sensor was developed for the Department of Defense's Tactical Satellite program.</SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Ships_ARTEMIS_Sensor_For_On_Demand_Surveillance_From_Space_999.html"> A hyper-spectral imaging sensor developed by Raytheon to demonstrate and assess military applications from satellites launched on demand has been delivered to Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. The delivery marks the sensor's first leg of a journey into space scheduled in December aboard a vehicle known as TacSat-3.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Ships_ARTEMIS_Sensor_For_On_Demand_Surveillance_From_Space_999.html"><P> The ARTEMIS (Advanced Responsive Tactically Effective Military Imaging Spectrometer) program called for Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems to design and build the sensor within 15 months as part of a rapid development experiment funded by a $15 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Raytheon_Ships_ARTEMIS_Sensor_For_On_Demand_Surveillance_From_Space_999.html"><P> The typical development cycle of such a program would be four to five years, according to Brian Arnold, vice president for Raytheon's Space Systems business.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/30EC3C46-0305-458C-A8F1-2A613ABF3ACA/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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