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Category Archive: Aerospace

1. Alaska Airlines To Kill Off The Virgin America Brand Name But Still Use Its Features

   Mar

   24

   2017

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   Alaska Airlines, which actually calls Seattle home, acquired Virgin America for $2.6 billion last year in a move designed to ramp up its Californian presence. However, the company recently announced that it will kill off the Virgin brand name in 2019. In an effort to up its own offering, Alaska Airlines still plans to utilize […]

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2. Delta IV Rocket Launches Successfully With $424 Million Satellite It Will Shoot Into Orbit

   Mar

   22

   2017

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   In case you missed the latest rocket launch from United Launch Alliance this past weekend, we’ve got you covered. The launch was successful on Saturday night, with the rocket responsible for carrying a $424 million military communications satellite into orbit. ULA has plans for another launch this week, this time for International Space Station supplies […]

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3. Canada Finally Getting a Spaceport On Its Own Soil to Launch Rockets

   Mar

   16

   2017

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   Oh Canada! The country is finally getting its own spaceport, meaning it no longer has to ship rockets all the way to Virginia to launch them. Canadian space transport company, Maritime Launch Services, has announced plans to construct a spaceport in the town of Canso, on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia. While the spaceport […]

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4. SpaceX Plans To Send Two Private Citizens Around The Moon In Late 2018

   Feb

   27

   2017

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   SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced the private space company will be involved in an unprecedented mission set to take place very soon. In Late 2018, SpaceX will launch two private citizens around the moon aboard a spaceship which is set to carry out its first unmanned test flight later this year. The tourists “have […]

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5. Drone Captures Incredible Footage of SpaceX’s Third Falcon 9 Rocket Landing

   Feb

   20

   2017

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   Elon Musk and SpaceX are starting to make landing a Falcon 9 rocket look easy. Something which was unfathomable only a couple of years ago is now becoming the new normal. And with each successful SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket landing, we are getting new vantage points, the latest being a drone’s eye view of the […]

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6. Highly Maneuverable Tactical Plane From Airbus Defense

   Feb

   10

   2017

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   French, German, Spanish, and UK military and defense officials have been negotiating with Airbus Defense & Space as they look for delivery of tactical versions of the A400M military transport/cargo plane. There has recently been some angst over the inability of Airbus to deliver the AQ400M in anything other than the basic version of the […]

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7. Airbus Plans to Test a Flying Car Prototype By the End of 2017

   Jan

   18

   2017

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   On Monday, Airbus CEO Tom Enders revealed plans for the company to test a prototype for a self-piloted flying car by the end of the year. Ultimately, the goal of the flying car would be to help people avoid gridlock on busy streets by taking to the skies. “One hundred years ago, urban transport went […]

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8. High Winds and Rain Push Back SpaceX Launch to January 14th

   Jan

   11

   2017

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   SpaceX has been forced to push back its first rocket launch since August from January 9th to January 14th due to high winds and rain. The launch delay comes shortly after the Federal Aviation Administration announced it had accepted SpaceX’s explanation for the company’s recent Falcon 9 rocket explosion on September 1st. After months of […]

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9. NASA’s 2016 Goddard Space Flight Center Mixtape Is a Thing of Beauty

   Jan

   03

   2017

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   In an effort to ring in the new year on a high note, NASA released arguably the best mixtape of 2016. However, its unlike any mixtape we’ve heard or seen this year because instead of featuring a bunch of new tracks, NASA’s tape features a year-end review of everything that happened in 2016 at The […]

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10. Newly Released Footage Shows Elon Musk Reacting to the First Falcon 9 Rocket Landing

    Dec

    29

    2016

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    SpaceX made history a year ago when the company successfully landed its Falcon 9 rocket for the first time at Cape Canaveral, Florida. However, people didn’t get to see how SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reacted and the roller coaster of emotions he went through from the launch until landing. Thankfully, National Geographic followed Musk around […]

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11. Watch Highlights of the Final ULA Atlas V Rocket Launch of 2016

    Dec

    21

    2016

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    A few days ago, the United Launch Alliance launched its final rocket of the year, an Atlas V carrying a communications satellite into orbit. The launch represents the 115th for ULA since its inception and the 12th of 2016. The satellite being sent into orbit is called the EchoStar 19 which will be responsible for […]

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12. Jet Engine Ceiling Fan Is Expensive But Not Nearly as Dangerous as The Real Thing

    Dec

    07

    2016

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    Companies like Pratt & Whitney are known for making some of the most impeccable jet engines in the world. Now just imagine having those same turbine blades used for jet engines mounted on the ceiling in your home… The folks over at Phighter Images have released an entire line of jet engine ceiling fans which […]

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13. Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity Spaceship Completes Its First Glide Flight

    Dec

    06

    2016

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    Only a few years removed from its tragic crash back in 2014, Virgin Galactic has hit a major milestone in resuming its goal of private spaceflight. The company’s VSS Unity, AKA the new SpaceShipTwo, successfully completed its first glide test after traveling for 10 minutes at Mach 0.6 or lower. While it may not seem […]

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14. NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Will Skirt The Rings of Saturn Before Plummeting to Its Death

    Nov

    29

    2016

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    NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft was launched back in October of 1997 where it would eventually arrive at Saturn 7 years later. Since then, the spacecraft has spent 12 years orbiting the planet but will soon meet its demise after operating in Saturn’s orbit three times longer than originally expected. Over the years, Cassini has been responsible […]

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15. Elon Musk and SpaceX Finally Know Why the Falcon 9 Rocket Exploded

    Nov

    07

    2016

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    A few months ago, in September, one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets exploded on the launch pad, which CEO Elon Musk called the company’s “most difficult and complex failure.” After much investigation, Musk and SpaceX have finally figured out what happened in what Musk called a “surprising problem that’s never been encountered before in the […]

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16. Boeing’s “Oversize Load” Required Another Operator on the Tail of the Trailer

    Oct

    26

    2016

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    We’ve all been in a situation where we suddenly find ourselves stuck behind an “oversize load” on the highway, creeping along under the speed limit. Obviously, the bigger or longer the load is, the more difficult it is to maneuver on the road. Recently, Boeing took the idea of an “oversize load” to a whole […]

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17. Airbus Is Working On a Fully Electric and Autonomous Flying Taxi Called Vahana

    Oct

    24

    2016

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    The regional office of Airbus Group in San Jose, California, A³, is working on developing a self-flying taxi by the name of Vahana. For what it’s worth, Vahana is a Sanskrit word that “denotes the being, typically an animal or mythical entity, a particular Hindu deity is said to use as a vehicle.” Essentially, Vahana […]

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18. Watch LIVE at 11:40 AM EDT as the ExoMars Spacecrafts Arrive at Mars

    Oct

    19

    2016

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    After a seven month journey, the ExoMars spacecrafts launched by the European Space Agency and the Russian Federal Space Agency, or Roscosmos, will finally approach Mars today. The goal of the ExoMars spacecrafts is to determine whether or not there has ever been alien life on the Red Planet. On Sunday, the two spacecrafts went […]

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19. NASA Successfully Launches Orbital ATK’s Antares Rocket

    Oct

    18

    2016

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    NASA announced around 8:00 p.m. last night that the Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo spacecraft had entered space after launching from its Wallops Flight Facility. According to NASA’s blog post “Cygnus is scheduled for arrival at the International Space Station on Oct. 23, with about 5,100 pounds of supplies and payloads, including critical materials […]

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20. Cransfield University Unveils What Many Believe Is The Biggest 3D Printed Metal Part Ever

    Oct

    12

    2016

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    Utilizing Cransfield University’s Wire + Arc Additive Manufacture (WAAM) process, researchers were able to 3D print an absolutely monstrous spar. At approximately 20 feet long and 661 pounds, many believe the double-sided 3D printed spar, comprised of aerospace-grade aluminium, is the biggest 3D printed metal part ever. The idea behind the experiment was to explore […]

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