Dutch students open world's first pop-up drone cafe [feedly]

Dutch students open world's first pop-up drone cafe
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Dutch_students_open_worlds_first_pop-up_drone_cafe_999.html

The Hague (AFP) April 23, 2016
null Would you like a drone with your cocktail? The world's first cafe using the tiny domestic unmanned aircraft as servers has opened in a Dutch university. The pop-up drone cafe will be serving up all weekend as part of celebrations for the "Dream and Dare" festival marking the 60th anniversary of the Eindhoven University of Technology. The 20 students behind the project, who spent nine mon

China aims for deeper space with new generation rockets [feedly]

China aims for deeper space with new generation rockets
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/China_aims_for_deeper_space_with_new_generation_rockets_999.html

Beijing (XNA) Apr 22, 2016
null China will take its new generation heavy-lift rocket Long March-5 to the skies later this year, and is planning even bigger models. According to Wang Jue, head of the Long March-5 project, the rocket has a liftoff weight of 869 tonnes, with a payload capacity of 25 tonnes to the low Earth orbit (LEO) and 14 tonnes to the geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). "It can carry more than two

Airbus calls for new aviation inventors - News24 [feedly]

Airbus calls for new aviation inventors
News24
Cape Town - Airbus BizLab is a global aerospace business accelerator helping start-ups and Airbus internal entrepreneurs work together to speed up transforming their innovative ideas into valuable businesses. After its first successful year since ...

y más »

Airbus Gains New Financing Ally in US - Wall Street Journal [feedly]

Airbus Gains New Financing Ally in US - Wall Street Journal
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=es&usg=AFQjCNGEm-TaZLsjhDjJ4hqUvWs4g3Z_oA&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=8jcdV-jcN4qIwAGIrK_oBg&url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/airbus-gains-new-financing-ally-in-u-s-1461530968

Airbus Gains New Financing Ally in US
Wall Street Journal
Airbus Group SE will open itself up to financing from an unlikely source when the first jet is delivered Monday from its new factory in Alabama: the U.S. Export-Import Bank. The government-owned bank's guarantees have helped finance hundreds of Boeing ...

Students wowed by star UAV on China's space day - China.org.cn


China.org.cn

Students wowed by star UAV on China's space day
China.org.cn
Some 150 middle school students had a chance to take a close look at the Caihong [rainbow] series unmanned aerial vehicles – China's most popular UAVs on the export market – at the China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA) on April 24, 2016, ...

NASA Marks Success for Most Complex Drone Traffic Management Test Yet at FAA Test Sites

In the first and largest demonstration of its kind, NASA and operators from the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) test sites across the country flew 22 drones simultaneously to assess rural operations of NASA’s UAS traffic management (UTM) research platform.

“We didn’t have any testing problems today,” said Parimal Kopardekar, manager of NASA’s Safe Autonomous Systems Operations project and lead of NASA’s UTM efforts. “NASA extensively tested Technical Capability Level one and worked very closely with the FAA test sites, and the UTM research platform performed well. This test would not have been possible without the six FAA test sites – it was a collaborative effort to ensure a successful test.”

Full Text: http://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/nasa-marks-success-for-most-complex-drone-traffic-management-test-yet-at-faa-test-sites