NASA's Pluto Probe Set for Flight

Posted at: Fri Jan 13th, 2006

A NASA probe bound for the planet Pluto and the distant icy realm of the Kuiper Belt is spending its final days on Earth as it nears its Jan. 17 launch date. “We’re in great shape,” New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern told ...

EADS rolls out tanker demonstrator

Posted at: Fri Jan 13th, 2006

EADS has moved a step closer to launching flight trials of the advanced refuelling boom system (ARBS) which provides the cornerstone of its five-aircraft tanker programme in Australia and the basis for a proposal to replace some of the US Air Force’s Boeing 707-based KC-135s.

Army Terminates Aerial Common Sensor Development Contract

Posted at: Fri Jan 13th, 2006

FORT MONMOUTH, N.J. -- The United States Army announced today that it is terminating the $879 million Lockheed Martin, System Design and Development (SDD) contract for the Aerial Common Sensor.

First Galileo signals received

Posted at: Fri Jan 13th, 2006

The pioneer spacecraft in Europe's satellite-navigation system, Galileo, has taken a major step towards securing the network's allocated frequencies. Giove-A transmitted the first of its navigational signals to ground stations in the UK and Belgium on Thursday. The UK...

Fossett wants to fly around world, and then some

Posted at: Fri Jan 13th, 2006

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) -- Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett last year became the first person to fly an aircraft solo, non-stop around the world without refueling. This time, he wants to go even farther. Fossett plans to fly around the world and cross the Atlantic Ocean ...

J-UCAS program to be cancelled?!

Posted at: Fri Jan 13th, 2006

InsideDefense.com is reporting the J-UCAS program, a program to develop the X-45 and X-47 Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles (UCAV), has been cancelled.