Branson Eyes New Mexico For Public Space Travel Departure Point

Posted at: Fri Dec 9th, 2005

The public space travel company, Virgin Galactic, may have identified a new departure point for flying people to the suborbital heights: New Mexico. Adventurer and British businessman, Sir Richard Branson—who founded Virgin Galactic in the mid-1990s as one of over 250 business e...

Lockheed in U.S. airship deal

Posted at: Fri Dec 9th, 2005

Lockheed Martin Corp. won a $149-million contract Thursday to build a prototype unmanned airship about 17 times the size of a Goodyear blimp that would hover about 60,000 feet above the Earth. The Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency said the High-Altitude Airship would be untethered, be...

Northrop Grumman's X-47B J-UCAS Team Simulates Control of Four Unmanned Surveillance Attack Aircraft within Aircraft Carrier Airspace

Posted at: Fri Dec 9th, 2005

SAN DIEGO, Dec. 9, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has successfully completed a simulated exercise that demonstrated the simultaneous control of four X-47B unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) during U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations.

India, US plan biggest-ever war games in Jan

Posted at: Fri Dec 9th, 2005

In a step up of service-to-service engagement, India and the United States will conduct the biggest-ever army level exercises near Ranikhet in Uttaranchal in January, as American officials on Friday indicated that Washington was working to open doors to high-technology transfers.