Category: TECHNOLOGY

A start-up that manufactures rockets with giant 3-D printers just scored $35 million in funding

March 27, 2018

Start-up Relativity Space’s latest round of venture capital funding brought in $35 million. The company says it can 3-D print 95 percent of its orbital rocket in development. At $10 million, Relativity’s Terran 1 is priced in the middle of today’s rocket market. Michael Sheetz | @thesheetztweetz The Stargate 3D printer at Relativity Space’s facility … More A start-up that manufactures rockets with giant 3-D printers just scored $35 million in funding

KHRUNICHEV SPACE CENTER: PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR SERIAL PRODUCTION OF ANGARA FAMILY OF LAUNCH VEHICLES

March 11, 2018

Department of Communications – Khrunichev Space Center Khrunichev Center (part of ROSCOSMOS State Corporation) and the Central Machine Building Research Institute (TsNIIMash) are performing joint vibration tests of one of the Universal Rocket Modules (URM-1) that form the core of the Angara-A5 first stage.  These tests started in late 2017 and will take several months … More KHRUNICHEV SPACE CENTER: PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR SERIAL PRODUCTION OF ANGARA FAMILY OF LAUNCH VEHICLES

ILS’s Pysher: Proton continues to reinvent itself to compete

March 11, 2018

by Warren Ferster — February 26, 2018   WASHINGTON, D.C. — The top executive with the U.S. firm that markets Russia’s Proton rocket blasted what he characterized as a recent slew of misinformation surrounding the vehicle, saying it enjoys the full support of the Russian government and that the culmination of a three-year quality control program instituted by … More ILS’s Pysher: Proton continues to reinvent itself to compete

Students to test one-of-a-kind, 3D-printed rocket engine

February 27, 2015

San Diego, Calif., Oct. 3 — A group of engineering students at the University of California, San Diego, will boldly go where no university student group has gone before by testing a 3D-printed rocket engine made out of metal at 10 a.m. on Sunday Oct. 5 at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry testing site in the Mojave … More Students to test one-of-a-kind, 3D-printed rocket engine

The world’s first printed jet engine

February 27, 2015

Opening new manufacturing opportunities for Australia in aerospace, medicine and light industry Monash University researchers along with collaborators from CSIRO and Deakin University have printed a jet engine. In fact Monash and their spin-out company Amaero, have printed two engines. One is on display this week at the International Air Show in Avalon, while the … More The world’s first printed jet engine

Actual secret Chinese J20 stealth jet… Artist’s rendition from smuggled underground pictures…the J20 shown to the public and to the press is a fake!

April 2, 2013

Filed April 1, 2013 It looks like the J20 shown to the world is a head fake the real J20-X program is more radical and we have the first artists rendition based on secret photos shown to us. The J20 shown “leaked to the world” is a low tech aircraft that is being put out there … More Actual secret Chinese J20 stealth jet… Artist’s rendition from smuggled underground pictures…the J20 shown to the public and to the press is a fake!

CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium: 2013

February 16, 2013

January 2, 2013 The 7th Annual CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium (EAS VII), April 26, 27 of 2013 is delighted to confirm several outanding presenters. Headlining EAS VII will be NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell on “Frontiers of Exotic Energetics”,Pipistrel’s Tine Tomazic on “Hybrid Panthera” and the “Ideal Electric Trainer” and photovoltaic breakthrough developer Dr. Loren Kaake of UC … More CAFE Electric Aircraft Symposium: 2013

Boeing Grows Composite Manufacturing Capability in Utah

February 2, 2013

WEST JORDAN, Utah, Jan. 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing (NYSE: BA) today announced the purchase of a new building in Salt Lake County, Utah. Employees at the new site, located in West Jordan, will focus on fabrication of composite horizontal stabilizer components for the 787-9 Dreamliner. “The site we’ve chosen is an ideal location to add … More Boeing Grows Composite Manufacturing Capability in Utah

What every Pilot should know: Equation of Time Solves Mystery of Gray Mornings

January 19, 2013

Equation of Time Solves Mystery of Gray Mornings   By JOHN O’NEIL As the parent of teenage boys who have to be dragged out of bed on school days, I had been looking forward to earlier sunrises once the winter solstice was past. But early January mornings seemed darker than ever while at the same time, … More What every Pilot should know: Equation of Time Solves Mystery of Gray Mornings

Nextant 400XT

October 28, 2012

The Hawker Beechjet 400A/XP® is one of the most popular light jet aircraft due to its cabin size, speed and reliability. The aircraft is operated domestically and internationally in many missions. The drawback of the 400A/XP, and most of its competitive aircraft, is its range. The 400A/XP has a range of only 1,333 nm with … More Nextant 400XT

World’s Highest Skydive! Daredevil Makes Record-Breaking Supersonic Jump

October 14, 2012

World’s Highest Skydive! Daredevil Makes Record-Breaking Supersonic Jump By Mike Wall | SPACE.com – 4 hrs ago An Austrian daredevil plummeted into the record books today (Oct. 14), breaking the mark for highest-ever skydive after leaping from a balloon more than 24 miles above Earth’s surface. Add one more feat: Going supersonic. When skydiver Felix Baumgartner stepped from his space … More World’s Highest Skydive! Daredevil Makes Record-Breaking Supersonic Jump