To test how fire behaves in microgravity and develop better fire protections Sometime today, after the Cygnus spacecraft departed from the International Space Station, a fire will ignite, burning its way through fuel until it can't spread any further. The experiment, called Spacecraft Fire Experi...
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Can't win 'em all One out of two isn't bad. SpaceX's launch of two global communications satellites seems to have gone well. The satellites are headed up into orbit and will be deployed shortly. That's the good news. The bad news is that the landing of SpaceX's rocket on a barge in the middle of ...
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According to new research, one flat could ruin the whole thing. Bummer. Alright, space elevator plans are back to square one, people. Carbon nanotubes probably aren't going to be our material solution for a space elevator, because apparently even a minuscule (read: atomic) flaw in the design dras...
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Cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight found in Mediterranean, Egyptian investigators say This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version.
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Looking to make a plane that was able to take off and land at airports with shorter runways, in the mid-2000s NASA began experimenting with the circulation control wing concept. Using increased amounts of high-pressure air over the leading and trailing edges of the wings, supplied either by the jet engines or separate compressors, aircraft using this technology have greater lift. That enab China.org.cn | China's C919 may make maiden flight in 2016 China.org.cn However the Commercial Aircraft Cooperation of China (COMAC), the maker of C919, told the media later the jet is still being tested, and its maiden flight could be postponed till next year. C919 is expected to strengthen China's capacity in high-end ... y más » |
When you think of aircraft, the words compact and accessible don't necessarily spring to mind. The team at e-Go aeroplanes is trying to change that with their new microlight, the first of which recently rolled off the production line into the hands of the first customer. Made of lightweight carbon fiber, the e-Go is powered by a compact Wankel rotary engine and sports a removable canard and wings so it can be parked in your garage.
.. Continue Reading Production e-Go aircraft lands with first buyerImagine an engine that's 30 percent smaller than a traditional piston design of like output, and that runs smoothly, with less noise and vibration. Plus, it burns several types of fuel. That's the LiquidPiston X rotary engine, which was recently demonstrated powering a go-kart.
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