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Aerospace company Silent Arrow has been awarded a contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory’s innovation arm AFWERX to develop a heavy payload, long-range motorized version of its GD-2000 glider drone capable of flying 300 nm (350 mi, 560 km).Conti… Continue reading Silent Arrow to develop motorized, disposable, heavy transport drone
In a topsy-turvy bit of military aviation, the US Air Force used a C-5M Super Galaxy heavy transport to refuel a KC-10 Extender refueling tanker aircraft, pumping fuel backwards up the boom from transport to tanker instead of the other way around.Conti… Continue reading US Air Force refuels a tanker plane backwards
The US Navy has taken delivery of its first giant robotic submarine. Boeing’s Extra Large Uncrewed Undersea Vehicle (XLUUV), also known as “Orca,” has completed acceptance tests including extensive surface and underwater trials.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading US Navy receives first long-range robotic submarine
2023 turned out to be a busy year in space and the general vicinity. New Atlas looks back at everything from rocket launches and cosmic tsunamis to asteroid samples and the latest astronaut fashions.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, ScienceTags: best-of… Continue reading The Year in Space 2023
NASA has taken cat videos to a whole new level, with its Psyche Deep Space Optical Communications experiment beaming a 15-second high-definition clip of a playful tabby across 19 million miles (31 million km) of space to Earth.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading NASA beams cute cat video back to Earth from deep space
After being grounded for over a year, Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket has returned to the skies and completed its 24th flight from the company’s Launch Site One in West Texas as it transported 33 payloads to the edge of space.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Blue Origin returns to space after year-long grounding
GE Aerospace has demonstrated what it claims is the world’s first hypersonic Dual-Mode Ramjet (DMRJ) rig test using Rotating Detonation Combustion (RDC) in a supersonic flow stream that could one day give hypersonic missiles longer range.Continue Readi… Continue reading GE combines rotating detonation and ramjet in new hypersonic engine
A team of scientists from China’s Northeast Normal University has developed an electrochemical method for extracting uranium from ordinary seawater that has the potential to supply humanity with an effectively unlimited energy source.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Electrified cloth extracts uranium from seawater
The Sixth-Generation fighter plane commonly known as the Tempest has taken a major step toward being reality after Britain, Japan, and Italy signed an international treaty in Tokyo to create a formal partnership to develop a new supersonic aircraft.Con… Continue reading UK, Japan, and Italy team up to build 6th-Gen fighter plane
Tiny bursts of electrical energy caused by collisions of objects no wider than a pencil lead could one day allow pieces of space debris smaller than one millimeter in diameter to be tracked, reducing the danger to spacecraft in Earth orbit.Continue Rea… Continue reading Tiny sparks from collisions may enable tracking of tiny space debris