Aviation

World’s Biggest Rocket: Equivalent To 15 Boeing 747s Tied Together!

The private rocket company from Elon Musk, SpaceX, will launch a test flight this year of the Falcon Heavy, considered to be the biggest rocket in the world. According to SpaceX, NASA’s Saturn V Ship…

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Will the Mystery of Flight MH370 Change How the Cockpit is Operated?

As the world ponders the location of the missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 and how it got there, there have been many prevailing questions, namely that of aircraft communications. How can a Boeing 777 carrying…

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How Mother Earth Defends Us from Solar Storms

Satellite Constellation Detects Solar Storms & Substorms Fragile human and all mammalian embryos are nurtured in an amniotic sac that protects the developing embryo as it grows and develops. The Earth too is surrounded by…

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Your Next Flight Could Have a Missile Defense System to Protect You from Terrorists

Israel is surrounded by a number of hostile neighbors but this small country has managed to hold its own despite being the target of terrorist attacks from time to time. In 2002, a surface-to-air missile…

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Goodyear’s New Airship Can Hit 73 MPH

IndustryTap recently reported on the new Goodyear Zeppelins and this new era in lighter than air transport. The new Zeppelins are faster, bigger and easier to maneuver than the old blimps and mark the end…

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New Goodyear Zeppelins Mark New Era in “Lighter Than Air” Transport

The name Goodyear is synonymous with Akron, Ohio, where the company is headquartered, and aerial broadcast coverage of sporting events in the United States. Goodyear blimps first “hit the air” in 1925 and since then…

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Small Satellite Constellations Help Solve Geospatial and Atmospheric Problems

The era of huge multi-million dollar satellites is waning, giving way to an increase in the mass production of low weight satellites. Gone are the days of one-time stints. New satellites will more frequently operate…

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Air Disaster Scorecard: 20% Technical, 80% Human Causes

“Murphy’s Law” states: “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” And so it is in the world of airplane disasters. From a distance, most air disasters seem simple: a midair crash, a plane running…

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Solar, Inflatable Drone Ready to Circle Venus for a Year

Scientists have always been curious to know how the planet Venus changed from a potentially life-supporting world billions of years ago to the scorching hothouse it is today. Planet Venus, the closest planet to Earth,…

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Goonhilly Earth Station Reborn with 999-Year Site Lease

A Pioneer of TV Via Space Satellite On July 11, 1962, half a century ago, television images from the United States were transmitted across the Atlantic for the first time ever via a Telstar satellite…

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