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After over two months of silence, NASA has been able to reestablish contact with its wayward Ingenuity robotic helicopter on Mars after radio transmissions were blocked by a hill. This marks what is now the official end of flight 52.Continue ReadingCat… Continue reading NASA contacts Ingenuity Mars helicopter after two-month silence
ESA’s Euclid mission to map the universe and learn more about dark energy and dark matter is on its way. On July 1, 2023 at 5:12 pm CEST the space telescope lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.Con… Continue reading Euclid lifts off on mission to shed light on dark matter mystery
To help counter the increasing threat of micro and mini drones, the British Army has shelled out £4.6million (US$5.8 million) to equip the infantry’s SA80 A3 assault rifles with the SmartShooter SMASH Smart Weapon Sight Fire Control System, which is a … Continue reading British Army gets drone-killing rifle sights
In anticipation of the near future when Low-Earth orbit (LEO) will become a cosmic building site for privately owned and operated crewed space stations, NASA has awarded a Space Act Agreement (SAA) to Special Aerospace Services (SAS) to develop a comme… Continue reading NASA awards contract for commercial astronaut jetpack
After years of setbacks, Virgin Galactic has completed its first commercial flight that saw it carry 13 research payloads and three passengers from the Italian Air Force and National Research Council of Italy to the edge of space.Continue ReadingCatego… Continue reading Virgin Galactic blasts into commercial service with Galactic 01 flight
The French Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) has announced that France launched its first hypersonic missile on June 26, 2023 at 10.00 pm CET from the DGA Biscarrosse site on the southwest coast of France near Bordeaux.Continue ReadingCategory: Mi… Continue reading France enters hypersonic missile race with first VMaX launch
Boeing, in conjunction with the US Air Force, has completed the maiden flight of the Air Force’s first of five test T-7A Red Hawk trainer jets as the program shifts into its Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase.Continue ReadingCategory… Continue reading First US Air Force T-7A Red Hawk trainer jet takes to the skies
At the Paris Air Show, the space agencies of France, Germany and Japan signed an agreement that will allow a robotic Franco-German rover aboard Japan’s Martian Moon eXploration (MMX) mission and land it on the surface of the Martian moon Phobos.Continu… Continue reading France, Germany, and Japan join forces for Martian moon rover mission
If you thought that putting a rifle on a robotic dog was daft enough, what about one with an actual flamethrower on its back? Not just a concept, Throwflame is taking preorders for its Thermonator flamethrower-wielding quadruped robot for those who fee… Continue reading Robotic dog turns up the heat with a flamethrower backpack
In an aerospace example of the operation being a success but the patient dying, NASA has declared a satisfactory end to its X-57 Maxwell all-electric aircraft project, despite the fact that the research plane will never leave the ground.Continue Readin… Continue reading NASA’ s all-electric X-57 stays grounded despite project successes