domingo, 29 de mayo de 2016
THOR, el primer Airbus impreso en 3D se presentará en ILA 2016
En 2012 nos hacíamos eco de una noticia acerca de la intención de Airbus y Boeing de imprimir sus aviones. Las ventajas son claras: menos material desperdiciado durante la fabricación y menos uniones mecánicas (esto trae menos peso y por tanto menos consumo). Y nos preguntábamos cuándo volaría el 1er avión de Airbus o Boeing impreso en 3D. Hoy, gracias a esta noticia en francés que nos ha puesto sobre la pista hemos descubierto el THOR, un avión con motores eléctricos que será presentado en ILA 2016 (Berlín 1-4 de junio), según la citada noticia en francés.
Flightradar24 exposes the presence of U.S. and allied ISR planes operating over Daesh stronghold in Iraq [feedly]
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Flightradar24 exposes the presence of U.S. and allied ISR planes operating over Daesh stronghold in Iraq
// The Aviationist
Several spyplanes and drones keep an eye on Mosul, ISIS headquarters in northern Iraq. As our readers know, we've been reporting about U.S. and allied planes that can be tracked online during war missions since at least 2011 when, during the opening stages of the Libya Air War, some of the combat planes involved in […]
Arianespace To Supply Payload Dispenser Systems For OneWeb Constellation [feedly]
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Arianespace To Supply Payload Dispenser Systems For OneWeb Constellation
// Aero-News Network
Launch Contract Signed In June Of Last Year For 21 Soyuz Missions Arianespace has signed a contract with the global satellite internet company OneWeb to design, qualify and supply 21 payload dispensers for the deployment of the OneWeb constellation, along with five more on option.
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SpaceX takes aquatic hat trick with third sea barge landing [feedly]
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SpaceX takes aquatic hat trick with third sea barge landing
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine
The daring became almost routine today as SpaceX pulled off a spectacular three-in-a-row by successfully landing a Falcon 9 booster on the deck of a sea barge for the third time running. At 5:48 pm EDT, the nine-engine rocket touched down in a powered landing on the unmanned drone barge "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Atlantic Ocean after delivering a telecommunications satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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Why helicopter airliners haven’t happened – yet
Helicopter airliners could save us time and lessen the need for building expensive airports. So why don't we have them? Airports are expensive things to build. And they require vast amounts of space, enough for all the runways and hangars, terminals and luggage depots, parking and other services ...
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Here Come The Laser Helicopters
The Army will test an airborne directed energy weapon this summer When all you have is a gun and a bunch of missiles, every problem looks like something to blow up. The Army's Apache helicopters are very good at blowing stuff up, but there are times when they need more precision. Laser-like preci...
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DARPA Urgently Wants A Space Plane It Can Fly Day After Day
Chasing the cheapest way to get into orbit The Pentagon is building another space plane. It already has one, the Air Force's secretive X-37B, but DARPA, the Pentagon's future-focused project's research agency, wants another. This new space plane is the XS-1, and it has a deeply ambitious goal: de...