All articles by Gayle Putrich – Page 5
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NewsUS lawmakers approve NASA spending
The $58.4 billion authorisation bill to okay NASA funding for the next three years was approved in a late-night vote 29 September as the US House of Representatives...
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NewsUS lawmakers move closer to agreement on NASA funding
NASA could start working on a heavy lift launch vehicle and preserve funding for a new crew capsule under compromise language drawn up by a US House of Representatives...
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NewsUSAF welcomes RQ-4 signals collector to Guam
The US Air Force has welcomed the first of three RQ-4 Global Hawks that will be deployed to Andersen AFB, Guam ...
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NewsBoeing well-positioned for final frontier
Although uncertainty continues to cloud the long-term future for US space programmes and policy, two recent announcements have made it clear that Boeing is well-positioned whatever comes next.
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NewsBoeing aims for five-year flights after Vulture win
Boeing has won a DARPA contract to test a solar-electric-powered UAV for ultra-long endurance surveillance tasks ...
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NewsAurora UAV lifts Magic technology deal
Aurora Flight Sciences has beaten Lockheed Martin to an Air Force Research Laboratory-funded technology demonstration ...
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NewsA160 Hummingbird crashes during testing in Belize
The US Special Operations Command and Boeing cut short flight tests of the YMQ-18A unmanned helicopter after one crashed in Belize ...
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Raytheon to upgrade UAV sensor
Raytheon will get $37.4 million from the US Army to dramatically improve the common sensor payload (CSP) for unmanned aerial vehicles. The Cambridge,...
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NewsFlexrotor makes first flight
Aerovel has performed the first flight with its Flexrotor miniature unmanned air vehicle ...
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BAE buys sensor company
BAE Systems is expanding its sensor portfolio, acquiring electro-optical systems and multispectral sensor company OASYS Technology. The terms of the...
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NASA extends nearly $1b contract
NASA and United Space Alliance have extended their programme operations contract through March 2011 to allow for the shifted schedule of the final two space...
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NewsUS SOCOM expands Puma purchase
US Special Operations Command will spend $35.3 million on Puma All Environment unmanned air vehicles, says manufacturer Aerovironment ...
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ATK, NASA test rocket under cloud of funding woes
NASA and ATK Aerospace Systems successfully ground-tested the most powerful solid-fuel rocket engine ever in the Utah desert 31 Aug, though the test was...
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NewsNASA funds suborbitial test flights
NASA is getting closer to near-space with a $475,000 award to two companies developing reusable vehicles for suborbital flight. Under the public-private...
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Slicing the UAV market
For L-3 Communications, good things come in small packages. As an outfit that ranks itself as the sixth-biggest defence company in the USA, and a leader in sectors ranging from intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance to secure communications, training, aircraft modernisation, propulsion systems, avionics and satellite communications to name just a ...
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AUVSI: Pentagon budget crunch coming to UAVs, too
The unmanned community is not immune to the Pentagon's current budgetary pressures, Dyke Weatherington, deputy director of unmanned warfare in the office...
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AUVSI: Lockheed shows off Samurai
Lockheed Martin's Scott Fouse, director of advanced technology labratories, shows off the "somewhat seductive" Samurai nano air vehicle this week. Based...
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AUVSI: Northrop says 2010 is the Year of the Global Hawk
Northrop Grumman has declared 2010 "the Year of the Global Hawk Enterprise." The company's vice president for high-altitude long-endurance (HALE) systems,...
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AUVSI: Kontron and AP Labs join forces
Embedded computer modules designer Kontron (booth 129) comes to this year's AUVSI with a whole new set of options to offer UAV manufacturers, following its...
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AUVSI: Cubewano supplies engine for T-Hawk
Start-up engine maker Cubewano (booth 402) is the newly announced engine supplier for the US Army's second increment of T-Hawk micro air vehicle (MAV). T-Hawk...