Tata Sons subsidiary – Tata Advanced Systems Limited has acquired majority stake in Aurora Integrated Systems Limited. Continue reading
NASA’s Global Hawk Air Pollution Missions in January 2013
NASA is inviting social media followers for a behind-the-scenes look at several airborne Earth science missions during an event January 25 at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Continue reading
Stanford Engineers Invent All-Carbon Solar Cell
In a major first, researchers at Stanford University have built a prototype of an all-carbon solar cell, including carbon nanotubes. Continue reading
Advanced Unmanned Plans HALE Hi-Res Aerial Imagery Fleet
Aerial imagery company Advanced Unmanned contracted with Airboss Aviation Group to design its prototype UAS. Continue reading
Curtiss-Wright Introduces Rugged Computer for Radar Processing in UAS
Curtiss-Wright Controls Defense Solutions in High Wycombe, England, is shipping an enhanced version of its MPMC-9335 multi-platform mission computer (MPMC) for demanding compute-intensive applications such as image, data and radar processing in space-, weight-, and power-constrained uses such as unmanned aircraft and ground vehicles. Continue reading
X-47B First Flight Deck Taxiing on USS Harry Truman
Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and personnel from the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System programme office (PMA-268) integrated test team made history Dec. 9 as they taxied an X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) demonstrator aircraft for the first time aboard a carrier. Continue reading
Autonomous Black Hawk Flight
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Recently over the skies east of San Jose, California a Black Hawk helicopter was flying low and slow – and while pilots were aboard the aircraft, all flight manoeuvres were conducted autonomously. Continue reading
FAA Grants COA to Georgia Center of Innovation for Aerospace
The Federal Aviation Administration has given the go-ahead for unmanned aircraft to begin more test flights over Central Georgia. Continue reading