04 December 2018
SpaceX sets two new highs in its latest launch
Yesterday marked a new high for SpaceX in terms of numbers and recyclability. Not only did the company loft 64 payloads into orbit in one go – the largest single rideshare mission from a US based launch vehicle to date – but it also re-used a ...
28 June 2019
NASA drone to search for signs of early life on Titan
Small flying drones are taking over the skies on Earth, and soon they could ... Titans’s surface like Huygens did, but it will hover over it in a large drone-like craft that has eight rotors. Called Dragonfly, this newly announced mission has been ...
April 2017
Sky-fi dawn of the space internet era
... to be upgraded or fixed if needed. How Google’s Project Loon will work. The first test flight of Facebook’s unmanned drone named Aquila was completed on 28 June 2016. However, an unspecified ‘structural failure’ occurred at the end of the 96 minute...
16 September 2015
From CubeSats to drones – playing catch-up with technology in air and space
... new challenges to U.S. officials everywhere from the FAA to the RTCA. One such technology is commercial/privately owned drones. At the “Reinventing the National Aerospace Structure” panel, conference attendees were repeatedly told that “there have...
13 July 2022
Sustainability ethos is key driver for UK microgravity firm
...well as the first in the world to offer it from a drone-launched pod system. The firm’s fleet of rockets, designed exclusively ...LOUIS, recently delivered a world first for microgravity from a drone. It provides the opportunity to run more local and ...
May 2022
The Space Industry in 2022
...to connect with patients virtually and assisted in the drone delivery of emergency medical supplies. And as the ...technologies in the air and space ecosystem including satellites, autonomy, drones, cyber security, AI data analytics and etc. Prior to ...
