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Alternative Propulsion, Military Aviation News, Urban Transportation September 27, 2023

Emerging Technologies Integrated Test Force takes delivery of first eVTOL aircraft

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) — Joby Aviation, Inc. officially delivered its first experimental electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft to the United…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News August 17, 2023

MD-90 jet will undergo extensive modification to X-66A

– NASA, Boeing, officials mark milestone for experimental aircraft project focused on sustainable aviation – MD-90 jet will undergo extensive modification to test Transonic Truss-Braced…

General Aviation News July 31, 2023

U.S. Airlines to Support NASA-Boeing Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Project

Boeing and NASA will collaborate with U.S. airlines to advise the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator (SFD) project and development of the X-66A research aircraft. As part of a new…

Space News July 31, 2023

Lockheed Martin Selected To Develop Nuclear-Powered Spacecraft

Lockheed Martin has won a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop and demonstrate a nuclear-powered spacecraft under a project called Demonstration Rocket…

Space News May 8, 2023

NASA, Rocket Lab Launch First Pair of Storm Observing CubeSats

Two NASA CubeSats designed to study tropical cyclones, including hurricanes and typhoons, are in orbit after successfully launching at 1 p.m. Monday, NZST (9 p.m….

Space News April 4, 2023

NASA Names Astronauts to Next Moon Mission, First Crew Under Artemis

NASA and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon on Artemis II, the first crewed mission on…

Space News March 13, 2023

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Splash Down Near Florida Coast, Safe on Earth

After splashing down safely in their Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 completed the agency’s fifth commercial crew rotation…

Space News March 2, 2023

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Safely En Route to International Space Station

Crew members assigned to NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission are in orbit following their successful launch to the International Space Station at 12:34 a.m. EST Thursday…

Rocket to Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) spacecraft

Space News January 25, 2023

NASA, DARPA Will Test Nuclear Engine for Future Mars Missions

NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced Tuesday a collaboration to demonstrate a nuclear thermal rocket engine in space, an enabling capability…

Boeing Sustainable Flight Demonstrator VS-1 and VS-2

Alternative Propulsion, Civilian aviation news January 18, 2023

Boeing Awarded NASA Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Contract

– NASA, Boeing and partners aim to cut fuel use and emissions up to 30% in single-aisle airplanes – Advances in sustainable technology are crucial…

Space News January 4, 2023

Apollo Astronaut Walter Cunningham Dies at 90

Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program, died early Tuesday morning in…

Space News December 12, 2022

Splashdown! NASA’s Orion Returns to Earth After Historic Moon Mission

NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, west of Baja California, at 9:40 a.m. PST Sunday after a record-breaking mission, traveling more than…

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