Based on computer modelling, the craft QinetiQ has developed thus far could complete a day-night cycle.
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QinetiQ confirmed that it was introducing a pay freeze, but declined to comment further.
Defence firm Qinetiq and turbine manufacturing firm Vestas are developing "stealth turbines", with radar-absorbing materials and coatings.
Qinetiq are among the first to actually see service, although their roles are decidedly limited for the time being.
She said Qinetiq had appointed a consultancy firm to help staff find alternative jobs both within the company and externally.
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They were due to see the giant QinetiQ balloon gondola which is to be flown to the edge of space.
QinetiQ, a British firm which makes the widely used Talon robot (pictured above), has a new lightweight back-packable version called Dragon Runner.
He said all unions represented at QinetiQ were now seeking authority from their respective executive committees to ballot members for industrial action.
And last year, defence firm Qinetiq flew a solar-powered plane for 54 hours, smashing the official world record for the longest-duration unmanned flight.
For instance, the devices made by Qinetiq, introduced at Fukushima immediately after the disaster, were built to search for mines, said the firm's spokesman Mark Clark.
Both QinetiQ and Carlyle maintain that the increase in the business's value is entirely down to the way it has been transformed in the past few years.
QinetiQ was created out of the former Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and floated on the stock market in February 2006, netting huge windfalls for its directors.
Doug Webb, QinetiQ's chief financial officer, points to acquisitions in America, giving QinetiQ's core defence business access to a far bigger market, and to increases in operating efficiency.
Defence contractor QinetiQ manages the site on the MoD's behalf.
Qinetiq, which has major sites in Farnborough, Malvern and Boscombe Down, said it needed to cut jobs as part of a widespread review of its UK cost-base following cuts in the Ministry of Defence's research budget.
First, researchers at QinetiQ, a British-government-owned company, and Ludwig Maximilian University, in Munich, Germany, exchanged keys between two alpine mountain-tops more than 23km apart, though they did so at night, when sunlight could not confuse the signal.
"One of the ways these discs could be reused is as a radiation shield because there's a lot of plastic packaging in the trash, " Mary Hummerick, a Qinetiq North America microbiologist at Kennedy Space Center in Florida working on the project, said in a statement.
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