4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (1075+ words) Sceye has completed a nearly 30,000 km round trip between New Mexico and Japan with its Service Test 1 (ST1) high-altitude platform. During a week over Japan, it demonstrated direct mobile connectivity, communications with drones and onboard data processing. The flight is significant…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (841+ words) Poland’s MSPO defence exhibition has opened in Kielce with a strong focus on unmanned aircraft, counter-drone technology and new ways of pairing autonomous platforms with conventional combat aircraft. The 34th International Defence Industry Exhibition runs from September 8 to 11 at Targi Kielce....

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (677+ words) Starfighters Space is turning its fleet of Cold War-era F-104s into flying laboratories capable of giving hypersonic hardware minutes rather than seconds in a real-world supersonic airflow. The company has developed a modular underwing test platform that can carry full-size components…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (516+ words) New images of China’s mysterious new stealth drone, dubbed the WZ-X, have given analysts their best opportunity to examine the aircraft’s unusual design. While nothing has been officially released by the Chinese government, the aircraft is thought to be a low-observable,…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (1286+ words) German launch company Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum rocket successfully reached orbit on its second flight on September 5, deploying customer payloads and becoming the first privately developed European launcher to achieve the feat from continental Europe. Spectrum lifted off from Isar Aerospace’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1505+ words) Four hours, three days, nine months. At first glance those numbers seem to tell a simple story about increasing distance. In reality, they reveal something far more interesting about how space travel works. NASA astronaut Anne McClain spent six hours…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (867+ words) Tata Elxsi has partnered with Bengaluru-based start-up Sarla Aviation to develop its Shunya eVTOL air taxi. Sarla will continue to lead the design, development and type certification of Shunya. The partnership could later expand into sensor-fusion-based navigation software, structural and…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1148+ words) NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has begun a million-mile journey into deep space after launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. It marks the start of a mission that could transform our understanding of dark matter and dark energy....

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (809+ words) For many airline passengers, booking a window seat is an important part of the flying experience. Whether it’s watching aircraft taxi, admiring the landscape below or catching a spectacular sunset above the clouds, the view is part of the journey....