All articles by Rob Coppinger – Page 6
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CIRA plans Unmanned Space Vehicle flight and hypersonic cooperation
Preparations will begin in October for Italy's second supersonic Unmanned Space Vehicle flight, while talks with Australia have started for a related hypersonic...
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Aluminium nutating engine in combustion tests
Combustion tests are under way for an aluminium nutating engine that could deliver the power density that the US military requires from its internal combustion...
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Cash shortage freezes UK Moon mission
The UK's Moon Lightweight Interior and Telecom Experiment mission that was to fire penetrators into the lunar...
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$35m for Excalibur Almaz week in orbit
Armed with a market study that indicates annual revenues of $1 billion, space tourism company Excalibur Almaz is working towards a 2013 first flight...
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US, Russian capsules vie for orbital domination
The history of human spaceflight has seen just seven operational crewed capsules, today six more are in development and three are private ventures...
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NASA considers ISS Bigelow module
NASA is considering attaching a Bigelow Aerospace inflatable module to the International Space Station, in a return to a concept over a decade old...
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Report to say UK faces uncertain future without space
The UK's standing in the world and the way space industry investment can enhance it will be set out in the government's...
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ISS to get permanent logistics module lab
The International Space Station is to get another laboratory with the permanent berthing of a logistics module during Space Shuttle's final mission...
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Major HiFire 2 reviews set for October
An international hypersonic flight planned to test scramjet fuel combustion at eight times the speed of sound will reach two major milestones next month. To...
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Wooden tracks to speed up vibration tests
In an effort to reduce new aircraft ground vibration testing from weeks to days, the German aerospace centre DLR has been pulling a specially instrumented...
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DARPA seeks GPS-less control for MAVs
Technology that allows a nano or micro air vehicle to hover and maintain its position without the aid of GPS is the goal of the US Defense Advanced Research...
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PICTURE: V-STAR UAV flies
Denver-based Frontline Aerospace has released images captured from its video of the 9 August first flight...
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Can commercial firms win with NASA?
The Obama administration is asking whether private enterprise should be called up to give NASA a post-Shuttle boost...
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Astronauts back Constellation
Sixteen former astronauts have signed a joint statement in support of NASA's Moon return Constellation programme ....
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PICTURES: Sanswire makes engine progress for its airship
Airship development joint venture Sanswire -TAO has completed testing of its STS-111's propulsion system at 9,000ft...
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Damage control test to lose 80% of wing in-flight
Check-out flights of a subscale autonomous Boeing F/A-18 Hornet have started this month in preparation for damage control testing where 80% of the wing and...
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Cosworth UAV engine for US Navy starts bench testing
A new heavy fuel engine is now under bench test in preparation for a first flight in the second quarter of 2010 for the Naval...
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DARPA plans for Vulcan engine decision by December
In December a classified meeting will be held for the US department of defense's dual-mode...
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AUVSI: Herti tests turrets in outback
The first production-standard BAE Systems Herti was unveiled last year. It has a maximum take-off weight of 1,650lb and carries a Cobalt electro-optical/infrared...
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AUVSI: Double Orbiter show at demo day
Israeli company Aeronautics Defense Systems' Orbiter unmanned air vehicle family, marketed in the USA by Textron company AAI, achieved a double at the AUVSI's...