Chris Anderson, the longtime editor of the geek tech bible Wired, has announced he’s leaving the job to focus on 3D Robotics, a San Diego-based start-up that’s trying to take remote-controlled airplanes and copters to a whole new level. Continue reading
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L-3 Gets $85M US Navy Contract for VideoScout Systems
L-3 Communications has announced that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract for its VideoScout family of systems. Continue reading
The First Image of Earth Taken From Space
On October 24, 1946, not long after the end of World War II and years before the Sputnik satellite opened the space age, a group of soldiers and scientists in the New Mexico desert saw something new and wonderful—the first pictures of Earth as seen from space. Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Wins $36.5M Contract to Train Unmanned Aircraft Operators
The US Department of Defense has awarded more than $36.5 million to Northrop Grumman training soldiers in the operation of unmanned aircraft at Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista. Continue reading
Insitu Donates Historic ScanEagle Unmanned Aircraft to The Museum of Flight
Insitu Inc. announced that it donated a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft, which participated in a widely publicized rescue mission in April 2009, to The Museum of Flight in Seattle. Continue reading
Kratos Wins $6.3M Contract to Supply Unmanned Aerial Target Systems to Korean Agency
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Inc. has announced that its Composite Engineering, Inc. (CEI) subsidiary has received a $6.3 million single award baseline contract from the Korean Agency for Defense Development (ADD) for the supply of unmanned aerial targets and associated hardware. Continue reading
Airship Programmes – Not So Buoyant, Says US Government Accountability Office
ISIS (Concept: Lockheed Martin
(Bad) timing is everything in aerospace. At the height of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, airships looked to be the answer to demands for persistent, “staring-eye” surveillance. Continue reading
LiquidPiston 40-BHP Rotary Engine Delivers 75% Thermal Efficiency
The internal combustion engine (ICE) has had a remarkably successful century and a half. Unfortunately, it’s notoriously inefficient, wasting anywhere from 30 to 99 percent of the energy it produces and spewing unburned fuel into the air. Continue reading