Astronaut Ron Garan was profoundly moved by his view of the Earth from space. Now he wants us all to get a similar glimpse of the fragile world he witnessed. The World View manufacturing facility in Tucson, Arizona contains what looks like the world's largest wallpaper-pasting table. At 540ft-lon...
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It's been a long time since Australia was a player in space exploration. One man wants to change that – with the help of a plane that travels five times the speed of sound. On 28 October 1971, the bullet-shaped Black Arrow rocket blasted into the clear sky over the desert plain at Woomera in sout...
Read more...In an exclusive video for BBC Future, the world's most famous physicist explains how he would like to change our society. How can we build a better world for tomorrow? At the launch of Cambridge University's Big Data Institute, we recently asked the physicist Stephen Hawking to describe the one i...
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NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will be the first-ever global survey of the Earth's surface water. The space agency has just announced that the satellite it will use to carry out the measurements will be hitching a ride on SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, set to launch in April 2021.
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Reuters | Germany eyes future spending of one billion euros on new tanker fleet Reuters BERLIN The German military could spend up to 1 billion euros in coming years for use of new Airbus (AIR.PA) A330 MRTT tanker planes to be bought as part of a new European multinational fleet, according to a German budget document. In a project ... y más » |
Ahmedabad Mirror | Make in India sees first unmanned UAV - Ahmedabad Mirror Ahmedabad Mirror India has taken its first step into the domain of indigenously developed active drones (unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs) for the defence forces. The Defence ... drdo scientists develop surveillance uav for armed forcesThe Indian Panorama New Drone Will Be Used For Surveillance And Not Combat, Says ...Swarajya los 5 artículos informativos » |
Aviation International News | UK Will Pay $1 Billion To Bolster Reaper UAV Fleet Aviation International News The cost to the UK of buying a new fleet of armed Reaper UAVs from General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems Inc. (GA-ASI) appears to have increased from earlier estimates. As notified to the U.S. Congress last week, the sale is worth an estimated $1 ... |
L’intégration d’Airbus dans Airbus Group va faire disparaître plusieurs centaines de postes dans les fonctions support. La CFTC table sur 780 suppressions, FO sur plus de 1.000.
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In the mid-northern latitudes on Mars, a large flat area exists called Utopia Planitia, which roughly translates as "plains of paradise." Unlike the lush areas we might consider paradisiacal here on Earth, this region of Mars consists of cracked and pitted red dirt – more a desert than a delight. Thanks to a new discovery though, the area could one day be a paradise indeed for astronauts landing on the planet, as all that barren regolith hides a frozen lake beneath that holds as much water as Lake Superior, the largest of North America's Great Lakes.
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Good dog Long before October's ExoMars lander failure, the Beagle 2 was Europe's first attempt to land on Mars. On Christmas Day in 2003, the Beagle 2 lander separated from the Mars Express orbiter, headed for Mars' dusty red surface, and was never heard from again. Scientists initially thought t...
Read more...The future of warfare Technology is really a marvel. So often, as new advances come out that allow us to do things that were thought impossible in the past, we hear the phrase "The future is now." Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies like these in a video ...
Read more...Accident Involving Facebook Experimental Drone Under Investigation
No one was hurt in the incident, which came during the unmanned aircraft’s first test flight on June 28. The high-altitude drone, which has a wingspan wider than a Boeing Co. 737 and is powered by four electric engines, suffered a “structural failure” as it was coming in for a landing, according to a previously undisclosed investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board.
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After Accident, Facebook UAV Ready To Fly Again
Facebook it preparing to fly its Aquila stratospheric unmanned aircraft for a second time as the NTSB investigates the structural failure that occurred when the aircraft encountered turbulence just before landing on its June 28 first ...
Ukrainian company Softex-Aero has unveiled its next-generation VV-2 high-speed helicopter at the Iran Air Show , held in Kish Island in the Persian Gulf from 16-19 November.
The VV-2 is a high-speed, single-engine, two seat (tandem) helicopter. It is designed for either piloted or unmanned flight. VV-2 is equipped with modern navigation instrumentation, including autopilot. This fact allows to access necessary information in any time.
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