All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 31
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EDA predicts certificated UAV sense-and-avoid system by 2015
A European Defence Agency study has concluded that a mid-air collision avoidance system (MIDICAS) for long-endurance unmanned...
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Prototype flight success could see French all-electric GA product
Following its maiden flight in December 2007, the developers of the Electra electrically powered ultra-light aircraft ...
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$18 million GPS research centre formed at Nottingham University
The UK government's East Midlands Development Agency (EMDA) and the region's University...
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Swiss database aims to enable ever larger solar powered aircraft
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) researchers are developing a design database for solar-powered flight...
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MTU Aero Engines claims blisk repair first
A low-pressure turbine blisk in an Eurofighter EJ200 engine damaged by foreign object debris has been repaired by MTU Aero Engines using a process called...
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DARPA awards 10g MAV night vision camera contract
Under a three-year US Defense Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) contract Goodrich is to develop a 640x512 pixel-resolution camera with a mass of under 10g...
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FAA personal spaceflight safety study aims for June recommendations
A personal spaceflight safety study aimed at helping to form legislation for sub-orbital tourist flights has begun in the USA. The US Congress-mandated...
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NewsESA aims for 22 February maiden flight for its space station cargo ship
The target launch date is 22 February for the European Space Agency's Automated Transfer Vehicle cargo spacecraft...
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Lasers to probe alternative fuel combustion
A two-year project to analyse and improve the performance of alternative fuels in modern combustion systems using laser diagnostics is underway at Iowa...
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ESA pushes for more astronaut time on space station
The European Space Agency is negotiating to increase its astronaut time on the International Space Station once its crew complement is increased from three...
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JAXA president outlines 2008 goals
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) president Keiji Tachikawa has outlined his agency's goals for 2008, referring to...
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UK funds $4.8 million aerospace and defence knowledge network
The UK government's Technology Strategy Board and Ministry of Defence...
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Protonex fuel cell gives Aerovironment Puma over 7h endurance
Aerovironment's Puma unmanned air vehicle has flown continuously for over 7h...
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NASA's new Moon mission rocket engine could use French nozzle
The Apollo programme-derived Pratt & Whitney...
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NASA gets full budget but COTS suffers 30% cut
NASA has been given $49 million more than it requested for the development of its Constellation programme's Ares...
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NewsNASA develops new docking system for Constellation
The first two manned Orion crew exploration vehicle flights to the International Space Station, scheduled from September 2015, will deliver a new NASA-developed...
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NASA predicts 2008 to be Constellation's year of the PDR
Leaders of NASA's Constellation return-to-the-Moon programme are describing 2008 as the year of the preliminary design review (PDR) for the Orion crew exploration...
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Boeing patents self-transpiring cooling system for hot structures
A self-transpiring technology for hypersonic or reusable space vehicles using a solid material that becomes gaseous and flows through the porous outer surface...
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Aerojet tests cryogenic oxygen/methane reaction control engine
US missile and space propulsion company Aerojet has completed hot-fire testing of a cryogenic oxygen and methane...
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NASA's Moon mission could see major change in concept of operations
NASA is studying a major change to its Moon mission plan to cut the time its Orion crew exploration vehicle has to loiter in low Earth orbit in anticipation...