by JVanDomelen | Jul 5, 2016 | Featured, Probe & Rover, Space
After an almost five-year journey to the solar system’s largest planet, NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully entered Jupiter’s orbit during a 35-minute engine burn. Confirmation that the burn had completed was received on Earth at 8:53 p.m. PDT (11:53 p.m. EDT)...
by JVanDomelen | Jun 30, 2016 | Air, Featured, Fixed Wing
The equipment required for an electric propulsion test is ready for research. Credits: NASA Photo / Lauren Hughes EDWARDS, CALIF, June, 28, 2016 — Before the first electric propulsion X-planes fly, such as the X-57, researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight...
by JVanDomelen | Jun 28, 2016 | Featured, Launch Vehicle, Satellite, Space
SRIHARIKOTA, INDIA, June 22, 2016 — In its thirty sixth flight (PSLV-C34), ISRO’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle successfully launched the 727.5 kg Cartosat-2 Series Satellite along with 19 co-passenger satellites on June 22, 2016 from Satish Dhawan Space...
by JVanDomelen | Jun 18, 2016 | Featured, Land, Track, Wheel
ARLINGTON, VA, June 17, 2016 — For soldiers manning armored vehicles, assessing their operational environment is challenging. The vehicles they’re in are noisy, and the soldiers are surrounded by tons of steel, with only a limited view outside. Spotting the...
by JVanDomelen | Jun 17, 2016 | Air, Featured, Fixed Wing
HAMPTON, VA June 16, 2016 — NASA researchers will have a front row seat to airline operations over the next five years, thanks to a newly signed partnership with American Airlines. Engineers and scientists at NASA’s Langley Research Center, are looking at...
by JVanDomelen | Jun 10, 2016 | Featured, Satellite, Space
June 10, 2016 — A Chinese space lab is bound to come back to Earth soon, but when and where this happens is a matter of debate and speculation. Source: When Will China’s ‘Heavenly Palace’ Space Lab Fall Back to Earth?
by JVanDomelen | Jun 6, 2016 | Featured, Sea, Surface
TEWKSBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, June 3, 2016 — Raytheon Company has been awarded a $365,848,801 fixed-price-incentive, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the production of Aegis Weapon System AN/SPY-1D(V) Radar Transmitter Group, Missile Fire Control System MK 99...
by JVanDomelen | May 23, 2016 | Featured, Launch Vehicle, Manned, Space, Unmanned
SRIHARIKOTA, INDIA, May 23, 2016 — Indian Space Research Organization (IRSO) successfully flight tested India’s first winged body aerospace vehicle operating in hypersonic flight regime. In this experimental mission, the HS9 solid rocket booster carrying the...
by JVanDomelen | May 20, 2016 | Air, Featured, Fixed Wing
NEW DELHI, INDIA, May 20, 2016 — The $8.9 billion agreement for India to buy Rafale fighters is stalled and obstacles appear to be holding up other Ministry of Defense procurement. Source: Bureaucratic Paralysis Hits Rafale Deal
by JVanDomelen | May 19, 2016 | Featured, Manned, Space
INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION, May 19, 2016 — The only thing worse than a flying rock chipping your car window is a flying rock chipping your space station window. That’s what you’re seeing in the photo below, taken by British astronaut Tim Peake on the...