AeroAstro has won a $3 million contract to build the first Small Payload Orbit Transfer (SPORT) vehicle for Malaysian company ATSB. The SPORT will carry ATSB's mini-satellite into geostationary transfer orbit after a piggyback launch on an Arianespace Ariane 5 booster. SPORT uses Bitsy, an AeroAstro core electronics module, as its basic building block, and operates autonomously with its own processing, communications, chemical propulsion and aero-braking systems.
Source: Flight International
Investigators have determined that a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300 touched down short of the runway at Amsterdam, after the crew sought to mitigate a perceived risk of overrun and descended below the glideslope.
American Airlines and United Airlines are resuming flights having been forced to temporarily halt operations as part of the wide-ranging global impact of an IT outage today.
A global technology outage appears to have caused several major US airlines to ground departing aircraft, in addition to creating problems at airports and airlines worldwide that threatens to snarl air traffic.
