NASA has selected six companies from five U.S. states to participate in a government-and-industry partnership to advance composite materials research and certification. The companies are: • Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth, Texas • GE Aviation of Cincinnati • Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company of Palmdale, Calif. • Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems of Redondo Beach, … Dowiedz się więcej
The first of nine Pressurized Cargo Modules (PCM), developed by Thales Alenia Space for Orbital Sciences Corporation’s Cygnus spacecraft to carry supplies to the International Space Station (ISS), was launched today, at 10:58 am local time (04:58 pm in Italy), by Orbital’s Antares rocket from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility at Wallops Island, Virginia. Thales Alenia … Dowiedz się więcej
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst is set for a six-month stay on the International Space Station in 2014. His mission came one step closer today when the mission patch was revealed at the European Astronaut Centre during German Space Day in Cologne, Germany. Alex is leaving Earth from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan 28 May 2014. He … Dowiedz się więcej
MathAlive!®, a highly interactive traveling exhibition that has drawn record-breaking attendance across the United States by inviting visitors to experience math in action, opens Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Strategic Air & Space Museum in Ashland, Neb. Presented nationally by Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN), this featured exhibition will run through Jan. 5, 2014. The 5,000 … Dowiedz się więcej
Observation data by the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-2 (AMSR2) aboard the Global Change Observation Mission 1st – Water „SHIZUKU” (GCOM-W1) has been transmitted to the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) in near-real time. The SHIZUKU was launched by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) in May 2012. As data from the AMSR2 includes vapor and Sea … Dowiedz się więcej
Aerojet Rocketdyne, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, has received the prestigious 2013 John R. Alison Award for its work on the X-51A WaveRider from the Air Force Association (AFA). The X-51A WaveRider hypersonic vehicle, powered by Aerojet Rocketdyne’s SJY61 scramjet engine, achieved aviation history by making the longest-ever supersonic combustion ramjet-powered flight, flying full duration and … Dowiedz się więcej