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The US Air Force is studying the feasibility of a process developed by tech company Twelve that could allow the manufacture of a carbon-neutral aviation fuel called E-Jet anywhere on Earth using only carbon dioxide from the air, water, and renewable en… Continue reading US Air Force looks to make jet fuel from atmospheric carbon dioxide
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory may have spotted the first exoplanet outside our Milky Way galaxy. Located in Messier 51 (M51), also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, the giant exoplanet candidate circles a black hole or neutron star 28 million light yea… Continue reading Have astronomers just discovered the first exoplanet outside our galaxy?
Filling a gap in the UK Carrier Strike Group screen protecting the supercarrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, a Royal Navy Wildcat helicopter successfully fired Martlet lightweight missiles for the first time during frontline operations. Deployed from HMS Defen… Continue reading Royal Navy fires new Martlet missiles at sea to demo carrier defenses
Blue Origin and Sierra Space have revealed plans to place a commercially developed, owned, launched, and operated open-system architecture space station called Orbital Reef into low-Earth orbit between 2025 and 2030.Continue ReadingCategory: Space, Sci… Continue reading Blue Origin and Sierra Space to build commercial “business park in space”
The US Naval Research Laboratory (AFL) is developing an Argon Fluoride (ArF) laser that may one day make fusion power a practical commercial technology. The wide-bandwidth ultraviolet laser is designed to have the shortest laser wavelength that can sca… Continue reading Argon fluoride laser could lead to practical fusion reactors
The US Air Force is installing a nuclear micro-reactor at Eielson Air Force Base (AFB), located 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Fairbanks, Alaska. Authorized by the Department of the Air Force, the commercially-owned next-generation reactor is scheduled … Continue reading US Air Force to install nuclear micro-reactor at Alaskan base
Lockheed Martin, Nanoracks, and Voyager Space have entered into a partnership to launch a permanently crewed commercial space station by 2027. Called Starlab, the semi-inflatable platform will be available to the US government and private industry.Cont… Continue reading Lockheed Martin plans to build Starlab commercial space station by 2027
After four years, Amazon subsidiary Zoox is taking its autonomous L3 vehicles from the automotive kiddy tracks of Las Vegas and the San Francisco Bay Area to the off-road rally course that is the streets of Seattle.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive,… Continue reading Zoox to test autonomous cars on the tricky streets of Seattle
Exosonic has been awarded a contract by the US Air Force to develop a low-boom supersonic Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) that will not only be used to demonstrate cutting-edge supersonic aircraft technology, but also to provide next-gen combat drones fo… Continue reading Supersonic combat drones to help train future US Air Force pilots
Honda Aircraft Company showed off a mock-up of its HondaJet 2600 Concept this week at the 2021 NBAA Business Aviation Convention and Exhibition in Las Vegas. The Concept is billed as a next generation light business jet that will be the first capable o… Continue reading Honda says next-gen HondaJet will be able to fly nonstop across the U.S.