Alenia Aermacchi was again displaying its Sky-Y at Farnborough – a Medium Altitude Long Endurance (MALE) Technologies Demonstrator – which first flew in June 2007. Continue reading
MIT Researchers Copy Nature to Improve Light Energy Conversion
Researchers at MIT explain how dye-based nanotubes can help harvest light’s energy – tiny cylinders help reveal how natural-light-harvesting antennae collect light with exceptional efficiency. Continue reading
L2 Aerospace and Cella Energy Develop Hydrogen Storage for UAS
L2 Aerospace and Cella Energy have teamed up to develop hydrogen storage technology for small, fuel-cell-powered unmanned aircraft systems and potentially other, larger manned and unmanned aircraft. Continue reading
SELEX Galileo Gets $140M Contract for Italian Part of NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Programme
SELEX Galileo has been awarded a contract worth €140 million by prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation as part of NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) programme. Continue reading
“Hypersonics – The New Stealth” – DARPA Announces Proposers’ Day
DARPA’s research and development in stealth technology during the 1970s and 1980s led to the world’s most advanced radar-evading aircraft, providing strategic national security advantage to the United States. Continue reading
Raytheon to Supply Dismount Detection Radar Pods to US Air Force
Raytheon announced at the Farnborough Air Show that it has won a US Air Force contract to provide four radar pods equipped with ground moving target indication and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) technology for the MQ-9 Reaper Continue reading
3-D Printing Manufacturing Process is Here
About 20 miles east of Pittsburgh, the former heart of the nation’s steel industry, a small company called ExOne is churning out a new generation of stainless steel boat propellers, oil pump parts and door knobs. Continue reading
New Small Rugged Computer from Ecrin Systems
Ecrin Systems has released a new rugged computer specifically targeted to space-constrained environments such as UAS, ground vehicles and manned aircraft subject to extremes of temperature, shock and vibration. Continue reading