All aerospace news – Page 1124
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NewsSPUTNIK 50: UK science minister green lights British astronaut missions study
A study into UK astronaut missions in the next decade is expecetd to be given the go-head by the UK government’s minister for science today
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General Aviation in brief - 9 October 2007
EUROCOPTER ERA Era Helicopters has ordered four more Eurocopter EC225s, bringing its order tally for the type to eight. Era is the first offshore oil...
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Air-taxi operator DayJet takes off
On-demand air taxi company DayJet launched operations on 3 October with its initial service based around the five Florida-based "DayPorts" - namely Pensacola,...
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Single European Sky trajectory is plotted
Failure by states to expand runway capacity at major airports would negate almost all the capacity, efficiency and environmental gains that are planned for...
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ICAO asks Air Navigation Commission to recommend on UAV accident investigation requirements
The International Civil Aviation Organisation general assembly has referred proposals for the modification of aircraft...
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Docking vehicle software compatible with ISS
The compatibility of the European Space Agency's final flight software version for its first Automatic Transfer Vehicle, Jules Verne, has been successfully...
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AirStellar reveals plan for 'global' air-to-ground service
A company that recently emerged from obscurity to disclose plans for filling the void left by the closure of Connexion by Boeing has revealed its intention...
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Comment - Only tourism can open up space travel
Only tourism can open the final frontier Space tourism is the only hope for the economic exploitation of space in the next 50 years. Half a century...
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Angara core booster prepared for 2008 test firing
Preparations for test firing the Moscow-based Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center's Angara rocket's common core booster (CCB) first stage...
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Submarine-launched UAV concept wins student design competition
A design for an autonomous compact rotorcraft deployable from a submarine and intended to be used to transport special forces personnel won the first prize...
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Aerovironment to build new Global Observer
Aerovironment has been awarded a $57 million contract by the US Special Operations Command to build a new version of its Global Observer high-altitude long-endurance...