All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 23
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UAV sense and avoid demonstration planned
Demonstration flights of a sense and avoid system for unmanned air vehicles are to take place in August using an Aerostar aircraft and a Beechcraft King...
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NewsOrion reusability remains elusive for NASA
NASA is not expecting to decide at its preliminary design review how reusable the Orion crew exploration vehicle will be...
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NewsSPY PICTURE: First image of Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo structure
This picture is believed to be the first image of the cockpit structure for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo...
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US Navy weighs manned/unmanned debate in F/A-XX planning
The US Navy is weighing the merits of manned and unmanned solutions in its search for a successor to the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet ...
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Xcor rocket engine to continue flight testing
Xcor Aerospace is by July to restart flight testing its XR-4K14 1,500lb-thrust (6.67kN) liquid oxygen/kerosene engine...
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Russian space chief denies knowledge of private Soyuz agreement
Space Adventures has rejected suggestions that a statement on Russia's Federal Space Agency website undermines...
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Discovery crew install largest and penultimate ISS module
The largest payload ever delivered to the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Kibo...
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First UCAS-D demonstrator to fly in fourth quarter 2009
The first flight of the Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator...
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Technology Briefings
BOEING CHOOSES SOLID OXIDE FOR VULTURE PROGRAMME FUEL CELLS Boeing Integrated Defense Systems has placed a contract with Colorado based-Versa Power...
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Ducted fan battlefield resupply UAV could fly in 2009
A half-scale demonstrator of a ducted fan vertical take-off and landing unmanned air vehicle called the VTOL...
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Northrop Grumman's P6 UAV to fly this month
Northrop Grumman is to fly a company-owned MQ-8B Fire Scout Class IV unmanned air vehicle it calls Prototype 6 (P6) later this month, before it carries out...
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BAE Systems unveils its armed UAV Fury
BAE Systems has unveiled its Fury armed reconnaissance and close air support unmanned air vehicle at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International...
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Catastrophic in-flight failure of a Boeing F/A-18 Hornet not serious with Rockwell Collins software
A US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -funded flight test of an automatic control system has demonstrated that...
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Carbon nanotubes disappoint EADS Composites Atlantic
Carbon nanotube (CNT) use in composite structures is not delivering the expected advantages after a year of development, according to EADS...
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Insitu ScanEagle demonstrates NanoSAR
Boeing, Insitu and miniature synthetic aperture radar developer ImSAR have demonstrated the real-time processing...
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Raytheon to test fly heavy fuel engine on Cobra
Raytheon has delayed its planned flight test of a heavy fuel engine with Swift Engineering's blended...
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Green projects grow for Quebec research support
Low fan-noise, automatic fibre-placement and helicopter rotor/fuselage wake-interaction technologies could be among research projects awarded up to C$2 million...
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Montreal industry proposes green aviation research
An environmental technology programme will be proposed to the Quebec government and Canada's federal authorities in the latter half of this year by members...
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Messier Dowty to adopt robot surface finishing for landing gear
After two and half years of development Messier-Dowty is to introduce robotic surface finishing for its landing...