All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 52
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ESA researches Mach 3 airframes
Agency looks at lightweight, heat-resistant materials to replace aluminium in high-speed civil aircraft structures
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NewsNo one wins Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge as Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel crashes on return flight attempt
Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge team Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel crashes on its return flight while attempting to win the NASA Centennial Challenge's $350,000 flight level one award
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Winds end hopes of most space elevator competitors
Only the University of Michigan makes any significant progress on a day that saw the wind highlight design drawbacks to most entrants' technology
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NewsArmadillo Aerospace's Pixel vehicle fails to win $350,000 lunar lander prize
At about 13:40h local time Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel liquid oxygen, ethanol powered vehicle failed to complete its flight to win the NASA Centennial Challenge's Northrop Grumman Lunar lander Challenge's $350,000 prize money
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NewsRead Flight's live blog coverage of the Wirefly X Prize Cup at Las Cruces in New Mexico
Flight's space correspondent Rob Coppinger reports live from the Wirefly X Prize Cup where teams compete for prize money in NASA's Centennial Challenges for a lunar lander and space elevator
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NewsFirst picture of Spacex Falcon 9 emerges
The first Space Exploration Technologies (Spacex) Falcon 9 booster is shown here being constructed at Spacex's El Segundo facility in California.
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Mini-UAVs swarm creates a buzz
MIT researchers aim to demonstrate autonomous operations with squadron of 10 unmanned rotorcraft this year