jueves, 14 de abril de 2016
USAF deploys F-22 Raptors to RAF Lakenheath in UK [feedly]
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USAF deploys F-22 Raptors to RAF Lakenheath in UK
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
The US Air Force (USAF) has deployed an undisclosed number of fifth-generation, multirole fighter F-22 Raptors to Royal Air Force (RAF) Base in Lakenheath, England, UK.
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Boeing Business Jets Grows Presence In China [feedly]
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Boeing Business Jets Grows Presence In China
// Aero-News Network
Three BBJ MAX Airplanes On Order From Customers In Greater China Boeing Business Jets' (BBJ) says its success in the Chinese market continues this year with 21 in-service airplanes and three BBJ MAXs currently on order.
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NASA begins testing electronic sail technology for deep space probes [feedly]
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NASA begins testing electronic sail technology for deep space probes
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
It took Voyager 1 over 30 years to reach interstellar space, but scientists at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are testing a new technology that could cut that time by two thirds. The Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS) or E-sail concept is a novel form of propellant-less propulsion that relies on a series of wires to catch the solar winds. The technology promises to reduce the travel time from Earth to the heliopause – about 123 AU (18 billion km, 11 billion mi) from the Sun – to under 10 years.
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