... of the first dedicated small commercial launch vehicles was a horizontal air-launch system. The then Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus is a three ...protected during ferry operations In 1974, the US Air Force was studying options for making large missiles more...
...also marks a historical first: no other orbital class, air-launched, liquid-fuelled rocket had successfully reached space before... customers ranging from the US Space Force and the UK’s Royal Air Force to commercial customers like Swarm Technologies, ...
...fuel run through a heat exchanger. The engine, called Sabre, is being developed by UK-based Reactions Engines. The US Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), under a co-operative research and development agreement with Reaction Engines, is exploring technical...
... Navstar Global Positioning System (GPS) was introduced by the US Air Force as a tool for military operations. The system used around 30... being recommended as a part of a Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen) for the US and potentially ...
... to conquer a great part of the commercial market, SpaceX also looks for profits in the government segment. The US Air Force plans to certify Falcon 9 in 2015, so that it can use the rocket to launch satellites in the interests of national security...
...leaps in evolutionary terms. In less than 100 years air travel has become routine and the car has provide ...concentrated on a backlog of failures. Politicians across Europe are forcing each other into populist measures to please themselves and the ...