Perth also reduced the power of the transmission to make it more like the sort of faint X-band signal the craft would expect to hear at Mars.
In addition, the official says, a floating X-band radar has to be modified to track the satellite's trajectory, and the "fire-control" systems on the Navy ships also needed modification.
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This includes cancelled deployment of two destroyers equipped with Aegis missile defense systems, along with terminating delivery of a second TPY-2 phased-array X-band long-range missile defense radar system for Japan.
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The U.S. military has positioned its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system and its X-band radar system in the event a missile were to be launched toward Hawaii.
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The Green Pine radar is one of the best in the world and together with the X-Band radar system the US recently deployed in the Negev, Israel's ability to detect incoming missiles is significant.
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The United States has also concluded agreements with the governments of Poland and the Czech Republic that will allow the fielding of ten land-based interceptors and an X-band radar, respectively, in the two nations.
He played with a number of other bands throughout his career including Iggy Pop and punk rock band X.
Los Angeles may not sound like home for a country-rocker, and for many years, country music only represented a minor twang in the music of the punk band X.
The Doors' vibe "has more to do with Charles Bukowski than it does with Farrah Fawcett, " said John Doe of punk band X, a friend of Manzarek's for more than 30 years, referring to the poet and 'Charlie's Angels' star, respectively.
Better known as "hide" (pronounced hee-day, and with a small h), Matsumoto played lead guitar with the now-defunct rock group X Japan - a five-member band that had a passionate following among teenagers, but which most adults had never even heard of.
If that's not enough syrupy corporate synergy for you, Microsoft's X-Box platform is featuring another new track by the band, "Sheckler's Revenge, " on the just-released Rock Band 2 game.
He produced four albums for X, including another landmark album "Los Angeles, " and played off and on with the band for three decades.
In the 91 x 72 cm portrait, Rembrandt is wearing a black velvet cap with two ostrich feathers, a decorative metal band worn round the neck and a short, decorated velvet cape.
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