7 August 2014
LATAM Airlines places $7bn order for 27 Airbus A350-900 planes
Airbus has received a $7bn order from Latin America’s LATAM Airlines Group for 27 new A350-900 jetliners.
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7 August 2014
FAA approves drone test flights over upstate New York
The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has approved drone test flights over upstate New York as part of a research programme to evaluate their use in the...
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6 August 2014
Boeing and South African Airways partner to develop jet fuel from tobacco
Boeing has collaborated with South African Airways (SAA) and SkyNRG to develop renewable jet fuel from a new type of tobacco plant to help meet environmental targets.
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6 August 2014
ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft makes historic rendezvous with comet 67P
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta spacecraft has made a historic rendezvous with the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, marking an end to a ten-year, six-billion-kilometre chase through the solar system.
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6 August 2014
Nasa and US Navy practice Orion spacecraft ocean recovery process
A team of Nasa and the US Navy has practiced retrieving the Orion spacecraft after it splashes down in the Pacific Ocean on 4 December, completing its first test flight.
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5 August 2014
Nasa extends Lockheed’s human spaceflight mission support contract
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract extension by Nasa to offer facilities development and operations support for human spaceflight missions at the agency’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston...
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5 August 2014
DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 remote sensing spacecraft set for launch
WorldView-3 remote sensing spacecraft, a joint project of Ball Aerospace, DigitalGlobe, Exelis and Lockheed Martin Commercial Launch Services, is set for launch next week from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
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5 August 2014
AgustaWestland delivers two AW139 helicopters to Heliconia Aero Solutions
Heliconia Aero Solutions has announced the delivery of its two AgustaWestland AW139 intermediate class twin-engine helicopters, which will be deployed for offshore transport missions in Morocco.
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4 August 2014
SpaceX to build world’s first vertical rocket launch site
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has confirmed its plans to build a new commercial vertical rocket launch facility at Boca Chica Beach in the outskirts of Brownsville, Texas.
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4 August 2014
In-flight Wi-Fi systems leave aircraft vulnerable to hacking
Research by a security expert has found that flaws in Wi-Fi and in-flight entertainment systems could make satellite communications equipment on-board passenger aircraft vulnerable to cyber attacks, prompting a major...