Scramjets capable of flying at Mach 15 will make it easier and cheaper to send spacecraft and people into orbit, says hypersonics expert Michael Smart. Sending satellites, spacecraft and humans into space is an expensive business. If humanity wants to venture further across the Solar System, we n...
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Trump Vows To 'Negotiate' Price Of Boeing's New Air Force One
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Donald Trump vowed early Dec. 7 to "negotiate" the price of Boeing's new Air Force One, pledging to cancel the order if costs don't come down.
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XS-1 Phase B: DARPA's new space plane looks skyward
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DARPA has awarded contracts to Boeing, Northrop Grumman and Masten Space Systems to continue developing concepts for US military's XS-1 experimental space plane. How could the new design make spaceflight commonplace, and what potential military benef…
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First Views Of Mars Show Potential For ESA's New Orbiter
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Instrument Suite Tested For The First Time ESA's new ExoMars orbiter has tested its suite of instruments in orbit for the first time, hinting at a great potential for future observations.
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US pioneering astronaut John Glenn dies
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Space pioneer and former US senator John Glenn died today at the age of 95, after a brief stay in hospital. One of the original Mercury Seven astronauts, Glenn was America's first man to orbit the Earth on February 20, 1962 aboard the Mercury-Atlas Friendship Seven space capsule. He later went on to serve in the United States Senate for 25 years and became the world's oldest astronaut in 1998 when he returned to space as a passenger/specialist on STS-95 Discovery.
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Tags: ObituariesNASAMercury Project Related Articles: Apollo 14 astronaut Captain Edgar Dean "Ed" Mitchell dies at age 85 Vale: The Mother of Television Electronic Music Pioneer Bob Moog Dies Mercury 7 astronaut Scott Carpenter dies aged 88 Vale Jack Kilby: the inventor of the microchip dies Pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong dies aged 82
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SR-71 Blackbird pilot Brian Shul: My life at Mach 3.5
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Some people live truly extraordinary lives, and US Air Force pilot Brian Shul is certainly one of them. Shot down and burned half to death over Cambodia, he worked his way back to the top of the game, eventually flying the most extreme aircraft ever built.
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- European planemaker Airbus (AIR.PA) will concentrate its German research at a single site and shift towards employing more contractors to promote innovation as part of a previously announced restructuring, its chief executive told German media.
Airbus will cut a net total of 934 jobs as part of strategies outlined in September for an internal merger with its planemaking arm.
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Less than three weeks after losing a MiG-29, it looks like the Russian Navy has lost another aircraft during Admiral Kuznetsov operations: a Su-33 Flanker. Military sources close to The Aviationist report that a Russian Navy Su-33 Flanker carrier-based multirole aircraft has crashed during flight operations from Admiral Kuznetsov on Saturday, Dec. 3. According to […]----
Battlefield Aerostats Are Getting Better
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A new generation of dirigibles promise to go where drones cannot
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International Drone Expo races into LA
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The International Drone Expo in Los Angeles, December 9-10, will have something for every level of drone enthusiast and racer - including companies now using drones in various businesses.
China's big aerospace ambitions are delayed
The Economist
This has led COMAC to proceed more cautiously with the C919 to try to make sure everything is right by the time it enters service. Taking extra care is laudable, but its adds time and that is costing COMAC orders. Most analysts say that by the time the ...
C919 passenger jet ready to lift Chinese aviation industryNews Ghana
China teams with Russia in bid to break Airbus-Boeing duopolyChicago Tribune
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China, Russia team up to build long-haul jet
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China is expected to become the world's largest aviation market. Airbus for instance estimated that the Asian giant would need nearly 6,000 new planes in the next two decades. COMAC is also producing its own single-aisle jet, the C919 (pictured above).
China Eastern set to order new C919 jets from domestic plane ...The National
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Embraer says E175 E2 certification put back one year to 2021
Reuters
The expected timeframes of certification and entry into service for other Embraermodels in the same family of aircraft, the E190 E2 and the E195 E2, remained unchanged and should take place in the first half of 2018 and 2019, respectively. Embraer ...
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Embraer Delays E175-E2 Entry Into Service By a Year
Aviation International News
Embraer has moved back its schedule for entry into service of the new E175-E2 by about a year, from 2020 to 2021, due in part to the failure of U.S. major airlines to negotiate relaxed scope clauses with their pilots. The pilot contracts of all three ...
Scope clause freeze pushes E175-E2 back to 2021Flightglobal
Scope Clause Impasse Delays E175 E2MRO Network
Aerotenna, a developer of radar sensing and SoC flight control technologies for UAVs, and Windhover Labs, a developer of low-cost drone software, have collaborated on an autonomous flight solution for BVLOS operations.
http://theuasmagazine.com/articles/1604/award-winning-sense-and-avoid-tech-maker-joins-bvlos-project
A new report issued by a European Union aerospace entity states drones represent a genuine opportunity which requires immediate EU actions including roughly $200 million in the next five years.
http://theuasmagazine.com/articles/1608/european-drone-report-calls-for-immediate-action-investment
Virgin Galactic has begun glide flights of the second, and significantly improved, SpaceShipTwo (SS2) sub-orbital vehicle after completing a fourth, and final, captive carriage flight under the WhiteKnightTwo mothership.
http://aviationweek.com/new-space/virgin-galactics-spaceshiptwo-flies-free
i-HLS - Israel Homeland Security
Anti-UAV Solution – Based on Stealth Technology
i-HLS - Israel Homeland Security
A fully armed MQ-9 Reaper taxis down an Afghanistan runway Nov. 4. The Reaper has flown 49 combat sorties since it first began operating in Afghanistan Sept. 25. It completed its first combat strike Oct. 27, when it fired a Hellfire missile over Deh ...
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UAV for automated crop count
Food Science & Technology
Fera's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is used for deployment in agriculture, forestry, quarrying, open mining and construction environments. UAV can be combined with sensor technology and used as a tool for remote sensing, allowing GIS scientists to ...
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Hunter Becomes Prey: USA Looking to Cope With UAV's
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The daylong UAVdemonstration highlights unmanned technology and capabilities from the military and industry and offers a unique opportunity to display and demonstrate full-scale systems and hardware. This year's theme was, "Focusing Unmanned ...
http://i-hls.com/2016/12/hunter-becomes-prey-usa-looking-cope-uavs/
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US Air Force releases draft Huey replacement RFP
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The US Air Force has released a draft request for proposals to replace its UH-1N Huey helicopters, calling for a full and open to procure up to 84 helicopters.
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Will 2020 be the end of the C-130H fleet?-testing
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Air National Guard's military transport fleet at risk of being grounded by 2020 if US Congress fails to call cards.
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F-35 Begins Integrated Training With F-16 At Luke
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Sorties Dedicated To Integrated Training For 4th And 5th Generation Fighters In October, pilots of the 56th Fighter Wing began flying integrated direct support practice sorties in the F-35A Lightning II and the F-16 Fighting Falcon for the first time as a regular component of the training curriculum at Luke Air Force Base.
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European Aviation Network Is Airborne
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Broadband Solution For Airline Passengers Integrates Satellite, LTE-Based Terrestrial Network A major milestone has been reached in the development of the European Aviation Network (EAN) with the completion of the program's first test flights.
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Drone Racing Established In South Africa
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Drone Racing Africa Has An Educational Component Along With Competition A fully-funded drone racing league has been established in South Africa. The mission of Drone Racing Africa is to encourage everyone from young people to adults to learn how to control a drone as well as race them competitively.
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NASA and Orbital ATK partner up to build technologies for space-based construction
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Building things in orbit is an inherently tricky business – just look at the 13 or so years it took to us piece together the International Space Station. Granted not all the structures we build in space will be the size of a football field, but having robots handle the heavy lifting could go a long way to keeping humans out of danger and speeding things up. To that end, NASA has teamed up with private space firm Orbital ATK to develop new technologies for in-orbit assembly of large space structures, all in the name of getting us to Mars and beyond.
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Scientists who started several blazes on a cargo ship were trying to find out what happens when different materials burn in the confines of a spacecraft A fire broke out onboard a cargo ship leaving the International Space Station (ISS) this week, but it was no emergency. It was part of the Space...
Progress MS-04 cargo craft was on its way to the International Space Station when it broke up in the atmosphere and fell to Earth An unmanned Russian cargo spaceship has broken up in the atmosphere and crashed over Siberia en route to the International Space Station, according to the Russian spac...
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Intrepid trio were trying to find the cause of a thick fog that had descended on Victorian London. But then disaster struck English meteorology may seem rather tame, but it can be hazardous, as shown by a balloon expedition by the Meteorological Council in December 1881. The expedition, in a ball...
Jordan Erica Webber plays the new modes in No Man's Sky and finds something for everyone The first big update for No Man's Sky gives almost everyone a reason to come back. "Foundation" includes features carefully selected to deal with each of the main resolvable complaints from those who were dis...
General Atomics to provide 10 drones to Royal Air Force in effort to improve firepower, imaging and intelligence, defense secretary Michael Fallon says The United Kingdom will double its fleet of armed drones, defense secretary Michael Fallon announced on Saturday, under a $125m (£100m) developme...
A European mission to land a rover on Mars will go ahead despite a test run ending in failure last month. The European Space Agency (Esa) announced on Friday that member states had agreed to provide the 440 million euro (£370 million) needed to ensure the future of ExoMars Rover, which is current...
German Xprize team sets its sights on a vintage moon buggy The Apollo 17 landing site has been abandoned since the last lunar astronauts went home in 1972. Now the site could get its first visitor in 44 years, as private companies race to the moon in the Google Lunar Xprize competition. A German ...
There's no better preparation for the ISS, or finding life on other planets, than exploring the depths of Earth. When the last humans returned from the Moon, they did so with lifeless samples of lunar rock. While geologically interesting, it taught us little about how life started on Earth, or wh...
Scramjets capable of flying at Mach 15 will make it easier and cheaper to send spacecraft and people into orbit, says hypersonics expert Michael Smart. Sending satellites, spacecraft and humans into space is an expensive business. If humanity wants to venture further across the Solar System, we n...
