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Preparing for its first flight in 2023, Northrop Grumman has subjected a prototype of its B-21 Raider nuclear bomber to its first loads calibration test to verify the airframe’s structural integrity as it moves through production to flight readiness.Co… Continue reading Northrop Grumman’s B-21 completes load testing before first flight
Boeing’s Starliner passenger spacecraft has successfully returned to Earth. At 5:49 pm CDT, the uncrewed capsule landed at the US Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico at the end of a six-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS).Co… Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft safely touches down in New Mexico
Using a 50-kW high-energy laser weapon, a US Army Stryker combat vehicle acquired, tracked, targeted, and defeated multiple 60-mm mortar rounds and other threats during four weeks of live-fire exercises at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.Co… Continue reading Stryker-combat-vehicle-mounted laser weapon fends off mortar rounds
Bombardier has taken the covers off its new Global 8000 business jet, which the company claims is the world’s fastest and longest-range production business jet, combining a luxury cabin with a top speed of 623 knots (716 mph, 1,152 km/h) and a range of 8,000 nm (9,200 miles, 14,816).
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Boeing is back in the business of human spaceflight after its uncrewed CST-100 Starliner passenger spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) at 8:28 pm EDT, fulfilling the key objective of Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2).C… Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner successfully docks with the ISS
The 45-year-old Voyager 1 deep space probe is showing its age as NASA engineers try to determine why it is sending back invalid telemetry data from its attitude control system as it hurtles through interstellar space, never to return.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading Voyager 1 puzzles NASA engineers with false telemetry data
On its third attempt, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft reached Earth orbit today. At 6:55 pm EDT, the uncrewed passenger capsule launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.Continue … Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft reaches orbit on third launch attempt
On its third attempt, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft reached Earth orbit today. At 6:55 pm EDT, the uncrewed passenger capsule launched from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.Continue … Continue reading Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft reaches orbit on third launch attempt
It looks as though NASA’s InSight Mars lander’s days are numbered after the space agency announced that the spacecraft is gradually losing power due to dust building up on its solar panels, already reducing their output by 90 percent.Continue ReadingCa… Continue reading NASA’s InSight Mars lander set to shut down by December
It was fourth time’s the charm as the US Air Force successfully launched its hypersonic AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW) from a B-52H Stratofortress on May 14, 2022, off the coast of Southern California, following three failures.Conti… Continue reading US Air Force successfully flies hypersonic missile on fourth attempt