A350-1000 undergoes water on runway tests
Performed this month at the Istres Air Force Base in southern France, the A350-1000 was purposely run along an inundated surface to demonstrate the robustness…
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AirAsia jet tail found underwater, black box may be close by
(Reuters) – The tail of a crashed AirAsia jet has been found upturned on the sea bed about 30 km (20 miles) from the plane’s…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds Clues to How Water Helped Shape Martian Landscape
This illustration depicts a lake of water partially filling Mars’ Gale Crater, receiving runoff from snow melting on the crater’s northern rim. — Observations by…
US Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet Impacts Water During Approach to USS Carl Vinson
SAN DIEGO (NNS) — A U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 81 based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana, Va.,…
A350 XWB MSN004 successfully undertakes water ingestion tests at Istres
Airbus has successfully performed certification testing to demonstrate the A350 XWB’s ability to operate on wet runways. During these tests at Istres, France, the flight-test…
Airbus Military begins trials of C295 firefighter
Airbus Military has begun trials of water bombing with a specially modified C295 aircraft at a site near Cordoba, Spain specialized in firefighting. The flights…
Water in Helmet Aborts Spacewalk
‘Houston, We Have a Leak’ A leak inside an Italian astronaut’s helmet caused NASA to cut short a spacewalk by two crew members of…
Airbus Military A400M performs water ingestion test
Airbus Military has successfully completed tests to demonstrate the ability of the A400M new generation airlifter to operate on wet runways and taxiways without ingesting…
NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing On Mars
Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars. “NASA’s Mars Exploration Program keeps bringing us…
Astronomers Find Largest, Most Distant Reservoir of Water
Two teams of astronomers have discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe. The water, equivalent to 140 trillion times…
Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
ESA’s Herschel space observatory has shown that water expelled from the moon Enceladus forms a giant torus of water vapour around Saturn. The discovery solves…
Cassini samples the icy spray of Enceladus’ water plumes
The NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini-Huygens mission has directly sampled the water plumes jetting into space from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The findings from these fly-throughs are the strongest…
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