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A new company has entered the commercial space race. Startup Radian Aerospace has emerged from stealth to announce it has secured US$27.5 million in seed funding to develop a single-stage to orbit (SSTO) spaceplane called Radian One, which is designed … Continue reading Radian One unveils plans for single-stage to orbit spaceplane
The US Air Force’s AFWERX technology accelerator program has announced that in December 2021 it successfully completed the first flight of an electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft with an Air Force pilot at the remote controls.Continue… Continue reading USAF makes first eVTOL flight remotely controlled by an Air Force pilot
With the decision on the replacement of the US Army’s UH-60 Black Hawk fleet coming down to the wire, the partners behind the Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing SB>1 Defiant have announced that their candidate advanced rotorcraft has completed its first m… Continue reading Defiant X attack helicopter completes first mission profile test flights
A mystery that has puzzled scientists for over 25 years may finally have been solved as a new study led by the Carnegie Institution for Science’s Andrew Steele suggests that signs of ancient life in a famous Martian meteorite may be due to geochemical … Continue reading Indicators of life in Martian meteorite may be due to ancient water
In an echo of the Cold War, Russia’s first newly manufactured Tupolev Tu-160M (NATO designation Backfire) supersonic nuclear heavy bomber completed its maiden flight on January 12, reaching a height of 600 m (2,000 ft) during its 30-minute test.Continu… Continue reading Full production of Russia’s Tu-160 bomber restarted after 30 years
Data from China’s Chang’E-5 lunar lander analyzed by an international team led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows that the robotic spacecraft has, for the first time, detected traces of water in the rocks and regolith on the Moon’s surface.Contin… Continue reading China’s Chang’E-5 lander finds first onsite evidence of water on the Moon
NASA’s US$10 billion James Webb Space Telescope has completed its final deployment without a mishap. Starting today at 8:53 am EST, the starboard wing of the 21-ft (640 cm) gold-plated primary mirror began to swing, locking into position at 1:17 pm.Con… Continue reading James Webb Space Telescope completes deployment as mirror opens
When NASA’s Artemis spacecraft lifts off on its uncrewed circumlunar mission this year, it will have its own voice-activated Alexa digital assistant and Webex video conference technology aboard installed in a Lockheed Martin demo pack called Callisto.C… Continue reading Amazon’s Alexa and Cisco’s Webex to fly on Artemis I Moon mission
When NASA’s Artemis spacecraft lifts off on its uncrewed circumlunar mission this year, it will have its own voice-activated Alexa digital assistant and Webex video conference technology aboard installed in a Lockheed Martin demo pack called Callisto.C… Continue reading Amazon’s Alexa and Cisco’s Webex to fly on Artemis I Moon mission
John Deere has unveiled an autonomous farm tractor capable of working in the field on its own 24 hours a day. Revealed at CES 2022, the 8R tractor is scheduled to go into large-scale production this year.Continue ReadingCategory: TechnologyTags: John D… Continue reading John Deere takes wraps off autonomous farm tractor