domingo, 12 de junio de 2016
Cheap Rocket Launches May Be Key To National Defense
For military satellites, redundancy leads to resilience Space is hard, which also makes it really expensive. A Delta IV Heavy rocket, like the one currently sitting on a launchpad in Cape Canaveral, costs around $375 million to get its payload into space. The expensive launch lends itself to larg...
The Biggest Obstacle To Mars Colonization May Be Obsolete Humans
If only science could evolve us a little faster Wherever you go, there you are--even if it happens to be Mars. That's the gist of an essay recently published in the journal Space Policy. Colonizers of Mars may very well escape the grind of terrestrial life, but they likely won't escape the darker...
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Man Conspired To Export American Fighter Jet Engines To China
And military drones, too Military technology is developed over years and guarded carefully. Modern planes are elaborate machines, full of specific parts and components that all have to work or else a multi-million dollar craft fails when it's most needed. If you don't have the blueprint for a spe...
World-class Architects, Designers and Engineers to Unveil the Future of 3D at In(3D)ustry
Can you print the remaining parts of the Sagrada Familia, a car or your own attire? Some of the world's top professionals from four major industries - Health, Automotive and Aeronautics, Consumer and Retail, and Architecture and Habitat - will be showing us how it's done at the first edition of In(3D)ustry From Needs to Solutions which takes place on 21-23 June at the Italian Pavilion of Fira de Barcelona's Montjuïc venue.
NASA flight tests help finalize detect-and-avoid standards - UAS Magazine
http://uasmagazine.com/articles/1493/nasa-flight-tests-help-finalize-detect-and-avoid-standards
NASA flight tests help finalize detect-and-avoid standards
UAS Magazine
NASA is partnering with General Atomics, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Honeywell International and the Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics (RTCA) Special Committee 228 to assist with the integration ofunmanned aircraft systems ...
UK Considers Further Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Tests - DefenseNews.com
UK Considers FurtherUnmanned Combat AirVehicle Tests
DefenseNews.com
BAE executives also showed reporters demonstrator work they have been doing to look at what a future unmannedcombat air system control ground station might look like. The company plans to showcase some of the ground station work they have been ...
WATCH: Unmanned test planecan seek and destroy heavily defended targetsExpress.co.uk
BAE Says Drone Warplanes to Aid Fighter Pilots, Not Replace ThemBloomberg
Ukrainian Aircraft Corporation set up on the basis of Antonov - Ukraine Today
http://uatoday.tv/society/ukrainian-aircraft-corporation-set-up-on-the-basis-of-antonov-670283.html
Ukrainian Aircraft Corporation set up on the basis of Antonov
Ukraine Today
As noted, the State EnterpriseAntonov will be the corporation's core enterprise. In addition, the corporation includes specialized research institutes, Novator state-owned enterprise, Kharkiv machine-building plant FED, Kharkiv Aggregate Design Bureau ...
Embraer CEO Makes Surprise Exit as Commercial Jet Chief Moves Up - Bloomberg
Embraer CEO Makes Surprise Exit as Commercial Jet Chief Moves Up
Bloomberg
Embraer SA said Frederico Curado will step down as chief executive officer after nine years at the helm, in an unexpected departure from the Brazilian planemaker as it faces stepped-up competition in the regional jet market. The company's commercial ...
Russia to have small reconnaissance UAV - source - TASS
http://tass.ru/en/defense/881530
Russia to have small reconnaissance UAV - source
TASS
MOSCOW, June 11. /TASS/. Russia will have a reconnaissance small jet-propelled unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a source at the Russian defense industry told TASS on Saturday. "The work on a reconnaissance small jet propelled UAV continues," the ...
Small Winglets Could Save the U.S. Air Force Big on Fuel [feedly]
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Small Winglets Could Save the U.S. Air Force Big on Fuel
// War Is Boring — Medium
But the flying branch isn't entirely convinced
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The T-X Is How America Will Train Its Future Fighter Pilots [feedly]
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The T-X Is How America Will Train Its Future Fighter Pilots
// War Is Boring — Medium
New jets require a new trainer
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Patrouille Suisse jet crashes after collision at Leeuwarden airbase. Fourth incident in one week [feedly]
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Patrouille Suisse jet crashes after collision at Leeuwarden airbase. Fourth incident in one week
// The Aviationist
Unbelievable coincidence. It's the fourth incident to a military aerobatic display team in one week, the second today! On Jun. 9, two Swiss Air Force F-5 belonging to the Patrouille Suisse aerobatic display team collided during a practice display at Leeuwarden air base, in the Netherlands. One of the Tiger jets managed to land in […]
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Chinese group buys 20% of Virgin Australia from Air NZ [feedly]
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Chinese group buys 20% of Virgin Australia from Air NZ
// Flight Global HEADLINES
Air New Zealand has entered into an agreement to sell a 19.98% stake in Virgin Australia to Chinese conglomerate Nanshan Group.
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OPINION: Can MC-21 restore Russian pride? [feedly]
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OPINION: Can MC-21 restore Russian pride?
// Flight Global HEADLINES
Some 25 years after the fall of communism, Russia s aviation industry remains globally competitive in fixed-wing combat aircraft and military helicopters. But despite more than two decades of investment and dedication, its once-mighty airliner industry is, at best, a global afterthought, ranking far below post-Cold War upstarts in Brazil and Canada.
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Boeing outlines plans for JMR demonstrator [feedly]
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Boeing outlines plans for JMR demonstrator
// Flight Global HEADLINES
Boeing is hopeful that the technology demonstrator (TD) it is building for the US Army s joint multi-role/future vertical lift (JMR/FVL) programme will continue past the currently planned 2019 timeframe and into further phases of testing.
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Denmark to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jets [feedly]
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Denmark to buy Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jets
// Air Force Technology News Press Releases
The Danish Ministry of Defence has agreed to buy 27 F-35A Lightning II multirole fighters to replace its existing fleet of F-16 aircraft that has been in operation since 1980.
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Federal Judge To Decide If Consumer Drones Are 'Aircraft' [feedly]
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Federal Judge To Decide If Consumer Drones Are 'Aircraft'
// Aero-News Network
Decision Could Have Significant Impact On The UAV Industry A court case that could have a significant bearing on the FAA's authority to regulate consumer UAVs is playing out in Connecticut largely out of the media glare.
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Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP) Gears Up [feedly]
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Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP) Gears Up
// Aero-News Network
Will Manufacture And Deliver 109 T70 Helicopters Over The Next 10 Years Within the scope of the "TUHP-Turkish Utility Helicopter Program", agreements were signed between the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), Turkish Aerospace Industries Inc. (TAI) as prime contractor, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. as major subcontractor and three key Turkish aerospace contractors (Aselsan, TEI and Alp Aviation).
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Airbus Defense And Space Completes PeruSAT-1 In Less Than 24 Months [feedly]
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Airbus Defense And Space Completes PeruSAT-1 In Less Than 24 Months
// Aero-News Network
Company Cites Creation Of 'Projects Factor' For Short Timeline Airbus Defense and Space has completed integration of PerúSAT-1, Peru's first Earth observation satellite. It was built in less than 24 months. PerúSAT-1 was ordered by the Peruvian government for its national space agency, CONIDA, in 2014. PerúSAT-1, based on the highly flexible, compact AstroBus-S platform, will observe Earth via a revolutionary silicon carbide optical instrument system at 70 cm resolution.
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ESA's potential space garbage collector nets itself a drone [feedly]
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ESA's potential space garbage collector nets itself a drone
// Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

ESA has provided a preview of its plan to net space debris by unveiling a prototype net gun designed to envelope and capture tumbling dead satellites. Wojtek Gołebiowski of Poland's SKA Polska, which is developing the gun under a contract with the space agency, used a small version to target and take down a low-flying drone at the Industry Days event for ESA's Clean Space initiative.
.. Continue Reading ESA's potential space garbage collector nets itself a drone
Category: Space
Tags: ESADebris Related Articles: ESA tests the potential of grabbing derelict satellites using a simple net ESA's mission to de-clutter low-Earth orbit takes a step forward ESA to host workshop aimed at cleaning up low-Earth orbit ESA sets its sights on harpooning space debris ESA endeavours to understand the unpredictable tumbling of space debris Tornado Shield helps protect against storm-flung debris
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