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Aeroacoustics Research Could Quiet Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Aeroacoustics Research Could Quiet Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are playing increasingly important roles in many fields. Ranging in size from the huge Global Hawk aircraft to hand-held machines, these remotely controlled ...


NASA Radar Provides First Look Inside Moon's Shadowed Craters

NASA Radar Provides First Look Inside Moon's Shadowed Craters

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a NASA radar flying aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists are getting their first look inside the moon's coldest, darkest craters.





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Biofuel for the Navy

U.S. Navy Plans to Test Biofuels for Super Hornet

Technology / Energy

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. Navy is getting ready to run flight tests using an assortment of biofuels. The tests will be run using an F/A-18 Super Hornet. The tests are scheduled to begin taking place at Patuxent ...


A hypersonics trial in Woomera, South Australia

Scientists test superjet technology in Australia

Technology / Engineering

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 7

Australian and US scientists have successfully tested hypersonic aircraft technology which could revolutionise international flight, officials said.


2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight (AP)

2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(AP) -- Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday.


Lancets Flights Probe Supersonic Shockwaves

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 22, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is concluding a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet in an effort to validate computer models that could be used in designing quieter supersonic aircraft.


NASA puts new rocket on launch pad for test flight (AP)

NASA puts new Ares I-X rocket on launch pad for test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter century, a new vehicle is sitting at Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Ares I-X flight test vehicle arrived at the pad ...


NASA's new moon rocket makes first test flight (AP)

NASA's Ares I-X moon rocket makes first test flight

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created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (25) | comments 17

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight.


James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing

James Webb Space Telescope first flight mirror completes cryogenic testing

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 08, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first mirror segment that will fly on the James Webb Space Telescope, built by Northrop Grumman Corporation, has completed its first series of cryogenic temperature tests in the X-ray ...


Look Ma, No Parachute!

'Look Ma, No Parachute!' Lunar Lander Floats on Electric-blue Jets

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (15) | comments 5

How do you fly on a world with no atmosphere? Wings won't work and neither do propellers. And don't even try that parachute!


Engineering modifications enhance aircraft safety

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created Feb 23, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Modifications of an aircraft control system developed by University of Leicester engineers, have been tested by flight test engineers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and German Air Force test pilots.


NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests

NASA 'Drops' Next Generation Robotic Lander During Autonomous Tests

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created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has successfully completed a series of autonomous "drop" tests of a robotic lander test article - in a record 10 months - to demonstrate the ability to perform a controlled landing on ...



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