But size isn't everything Blue Origin was the first private spaceflight company to launch a rocket into space and then bring it back down for a vertical landing. "Into space" has a bit of a caveat attached, though; the New Shepard rocket crossed the Karman line, 100 kilometers above ground, which...
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Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov says it plans to fly the first prototype of the An-132D light airlifter before the end of this year.
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The uncontained left engine failure of a Southwest Airlines flight from New Orleans to Orlando, Florida, on Aug. 27 was likely initiated by a fan blade that broke off due to metal fatigue, according to a Sept 12 investigative update by the U.S. NTSB.
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Navy releases MQ-25 Stingray sensor RFI
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The US Navy s MQ-25 Stingray will leverage an existing Defense Department electro-optical infrared sensor, according to a recently released request for information.
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Icon Officially Announces Composites Fabrication Plant In Mexico
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Facility To Begin Operations In November, Company Says Maybe this is the spark they need to finally actually get the A5 into production. Icon Aircraft Thursday evening announced the construction of a new facility in Tijuana, Mexico, where it will produce composite airframe components for the A5. As part of a revised production plan announced in May, the company decided to produce its own composite components, a manufacturing process that was previously outsourced to several suppliers.
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Changzhou National Hi-Tech District Selected For New Unmanned Helicopter Project
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Large- And Medium-Sized Unmanned Helos To Be Developed Under The Agreement Jiangsu Tianyu Aviation Technology Co., Ltd. and the 60th Research Institute of the General Staff Department of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (60th Research Institute) recently held a signing ceremony for cooperation on an unmanned helicopter project.
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Is dronesurfing the next wave in watersports?
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Drones have brought exciting new camera angles to sports coverage and even led to the development of the new sport of drone racing. Now, as a farewell to the summer, Seattle-based Freefly Systems has enlisted one of its drones for dronesurfing, a new take on kitesurfing where the kite pulling the rider across the water is replaced by a drone.
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Introducing New Glenn: Blue Origin's reusable, vertical-landing booster, w/ 3.85 million lbf thrust from 7 BE-4's 🚀 pic.twitter.com/kq63JlCOcF— Megan H. (@Megsylhydrazine) September 12, 2016
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To send images and video from a crisis to firefighters The New York City Fire Department is about to debut a drone that, appropriately, is painted fire engine red. The aircraft will soon be responding to fires and other emergencies, giving firefighters a clearer view of what they are facing. The ...
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As NASA aeronautics engineers prepare to develop a series of greener, quieter, faster X-planes, they are already testing concepts that could be candidates. One of those is a blended wing body (BWB). A six-percent scale model of a Boeing BWB is being tested for six weeks in the 14-by 22-Foot Subsonic Tunnel at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. "We're happy to have t
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SpaceShipTwo returns to flight after nearly two years
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A Virgin Galactic spaceship returned to flight in a captive carry test for the first time in nearly two years since the fatal crash of the original prototype.
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Google's drones to deliver Chipotle burritos in upcoming trials
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Project Wing, a drone-delivery moonshot started by Google and now under control of parent company Alphabet, hasn't quite attracted the same publicity as some other big companies in the space. But since it was first unveiled in 2014, the team has been quietly toiling away in the shadows and is now looking to ramp things up, partnering with fast food chain Chipotle to deliver burritos to students at Virginia Tech in new trials starting this month.
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When pilot Viktor Belenko defected 40 years ago, he did so in a mysterious Soviet plane – the MiG-25. BBC Future investigates the far-reaching effects of one of the Cold War's most intriguing events. On 6 September 1976, an aircraft appears out of the clouds near the Japanese city of Hakodate, on...
A flying scout, for the unknown indoors There is little detail in the $1 million contract award posted yesterday. The award, from the Army, but through the Pentagon's brand-new tech-focused "Defense Innovation Unit Experimental" DIUx, is for a nine-month "prototype project in the area of Autonomo...
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Why Argentina Was Chosen For Record-Breaking Perlan II Attempts
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The Airbus Group's Perlan II glider is attempting to break the world record of wing-borne altitude this summer, aiming to reach 90,000 ft. Choosing the right place is essential to the success of the flight, so why did the team choose Argentina?
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K-MAX Is Back
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After a 12 year hiatus the K-MAX is back in production.
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The Man Who Ruined the Soviet Warplane Industry
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Meet Adolf Georgievich Tolkachev
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Spanish Air Force's first A400M conducts maiden flight
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The Spanish Air Force's first A400M four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft has successfully completed its maiden flight.
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Drone USA Expects Commercial Drone Market To Increase
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Says Part 107 Aligns With Its Business Model And Growth Projections Drone USA has announced that Small UAS Rule, a new regulation that was passed by the FAA governing the operation of drones, or unmanned aerial systems (UAS), in United States airspace, is aligned with Drone USA's business model and growth projections for the commercial drone segment of the Company.
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MiG-29K flights from the "Admiral Kuznetsov"
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Photos of flights of regular MiG-29KR / KUBR from the recently reconstituted 100th separate naval fighter air regiment (SNFAR) of Naval aviation of the Northern Fleet from the deck of the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet … Read more...
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We were among the first to see the fixed-wing drone from Parrot back in January 2016 during CES in Las Vegas. Now, the Parrot Disco is ready for consumers to purchase and experience first-person …
NASA's partnership with SpaceX, Boeing continues to face delays It's going to be a few more years before the United States sends astronauts on commercial flights to the International Space Station. The NASA Office of Inspector General released its audit today on the state of the agency's Commerci...
A "Joint tactical aerial resupply vehicle," to be technical Let me cut to the landspeeder chase: the U.S. Army is currently working on a hoverbike. Last summer, when the Army expressed an interest in the hoverbike, Popular Science wrote about all the previous attempts at smaller, one-or-two perso...
Go lander go! NASA announced today that its InSight mission, the first lander dedicated to taking a deeper look at Mars' surface by literally drilling into it, has a new launch period beginning May 5, 2018. This comes after a series of setbacks, including a faulty seismometer and two-year delay t...
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China Is Building a New Bomber
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But can it master jet engines?
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The Kremlin Dreams of an Arctic Airship Fleet
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To save the economy, the Russian government entertains an airy idea
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Phantom Flies Final Unmanned Mission
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Was Shot Down By An F-35 Lightning II In Practice Exercise The QF-4 Phantom flew its final unmanned mission in the skies above White Sands Missile Range on August 17. During the flight, the unmanned aircraft served its primary mission as an aerial target and was shot down by an F-35 Lightning II from Edwards Air Force Base, California.
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Chinese J-20 stealth fighter prototype spotted in Tibet. In the area for flight-testing. pic.twitter.com/edKNewg2sA— Livefist (@livefist) September 2, 2016
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully tested its new scramjet engine and expects a commercial launch. This is being touted as the most cost-effective rocket engine the world has seen. With this, the ISRO, which is already the most inexpensive commercial satellite launch service provider in the world, expects to attract more customers worldwide. The test carri
The sale of Russia's Morskoi Start (Sea Launch) floating space launch pad is expected early next year, with Russian investors among the leading candidates, the S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia chief said Friday. "I believe the transaction will be finalized in early 2017. We are leaning toward a Russian candidate, it has an interesting program and is convenient to wor
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New FPV Micro-Drone Coming Soon
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Blade Introduces The Inductrix FPV While the market for drones continues to grow, it seems like many of the actual aircraft are getting smaller. Such is the case with the Blade Inductrix FPV, which will be available soon from Horizon Hobby.
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Graphene breakthrough is big news for future of semiconductors
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The supermaterial graphene has been receiving quite a bit of attention over the past few years. The latest breakthrough comes in the form of a method for using the strong, super-conducting one-atom-thick layer of carbon atoms to create two-dimensional materials that could, in turn, be used in the next generation of lasers, electronics and sensors.
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La Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA) pone en marcha, bajo la dirección de la Dra. Covadonga Mallada Fernández, la I Jornada de Seguridad y Defensa: Implicaciones de la financiación del terrorismo para la seguridad y defensa de España, que se celebrará el próximo 23 de septiembre en el Campus de Collado Villalba.
El objetivo de esta jornada es compartir conocimientos y propuestas en torno a las medidas de lucha contra la financiación del terrorismo, así como facilitar el encuentro de profesores, estudiantes y miembros de las Fuerzas de Seguridad.
Estas jornadas van dirigidas especialmente a estudiantes y titulados universitarios de disciplinas diversas como las Ciencias Políticas, la Psicología, el Derecho, la Criminología, la Sociología, etc., profesionales de las Fuerzas Armadas y de las Fuerzas y Cuerpos de Seguridad del Estado, periodistas, abogados, diplomáticos, criminólogos y profesionales de la seguridad y cualquier interesado en la temática de las mismas.
El acto será inaugurado por el presidente del Patronato de la Fundación Hergar, D. Roque de las Heras Miguel, con presencia del rector de la UDIMA, José Andrés Sánchez Pedroche, la decana de la Facultad de Ciencias Jurídicas, Esther Monterroso Casado y el director del Departamento de Criminología, Andrés Delgado Gil.
Fernando García Sánchez, Jefe del Estado Mayor de la Defensa, Miguel Ángel Ballesteros, General Director del Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos o Benjamin Vogel, Head Section del Max Planck Institut de Derecho Penal Internacional de Friburgo de Brisgovia, serán algunos de los principales ponentes.
Para participar en las jornadas es necesario inscribirse aquí. http://www.udima.es/es/jornadas-udima-seguridad-y-defensa.html
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That's Weird — Russia's Best Fighter Jets in Syria Are Flying With Crappy Missiles
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The Kremlin possesses air-to-air missiles which match American ones, just not very many
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MRJ aborts ferry flight to US twice in two days
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Mitsubishi Aircraft made two failed attempts to ferry its first MRJ regional jet prototype to the US over the weekend, due to issues with the aircraft's air management system.
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NASA Awards Launch Services Contract For Mars 2020 Rover Mission
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ULA Will Send The Robot On Its Way To The Red Planet NASA has selected United Launch Services LLC of Centennial, Colorado, to provide launch services for a mission that will address high-priority science goals for the agency's Journey to Mars.
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The first fighter to fly twice the speed of sound, the Lockheed F-104 was a controversial design. Now, decades after retirement, the Starfighter is taking on a new role. If you asked an eight-year-old to design a jet fighter, the end result might resemble the Lockheed F-104. The F-104 looks less ...
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The fourth such test since December appears to be a success When all of life feels like a war, every missile is a success. North Korea, a tightly controlled dictatorship locked in a shadowboxing match with the entire western world, keeps building and testing new missiles. Worse still, the missile...
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A potential minefield Last summer, the Pentagon's Defense Science Board commissioned a study to examine angles on a particular challenge for DoD, with participants drawn from consulting, defense and technical industries, as well as the military and academia. In possibly the worst John Lennon cove...
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—China set up a new state-owned aircraft engine maker to help fulfill ambitions to develop homegrown aerospace giants and become a major player in global aviation.
In remarks published Sunday by state media, President Xi Jinping described the creation of Aero Engine Corp. of China, or AECC, as a "strategic move" that would accelerate the development of indigenously made jet engines and thereby boost national prestige and...
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