Telecom satellites are set to enter a new age, as ESA, Eutelsat and Airbus Defence & Space begin designing the most flexible payload ever. The Quantum programme is a departure from the t... Read more
IT TAKES chutzpah to tweet “rockets are tricky” shortly after one you have just launched has deliberately blown itself up. But Elon Musk, founder and boss of SpaceX, is not a man who lacks s... Read more
Imagine showing up at the airport to catch your flight, looking at your plane, and noticing that instead of windows, the cockpit is now a smooth cone of aluminum. It may seem like the worst... Read more
Harvard Engineers Use New Resin Inks and 3D Printing to Construct Lightweight Cellular Composites In wind farms across North America and Europe, sleek turbines equipped with state-of-the-art... Read more
Will be able to hover at an altitude of 20 km (12 miles) Satellites may be very useful for communications, navigation and other applications, but they’re awfully expensive to build and... Read more
A new brick in the Great Wall ALTHOUGH it is the weekend, a small factory in the Haidian district of Beijing is hard at work. Eight machines, the biggest the size of a delivery van, are busy... Read more
Pioneering plan for low cost satellite launches revealed A Swiss firm has unveiled radical plans to launch a space shuttle from the top of an Airbus passenger jet. Swiss Space Systems says t... Read more
It might be possible to use linear motors for landings, too. READERS of a certain age may remember “Fireball XL5”, a children’s television programme devised by Gerry Anderson about a... Read more
Emerging technologies are ushering in more fuel-efficient, comfortable and exotic aircraft. Get ready for the future of flight ON THE evening of July 23rd 1983, Air Canada Flight 143 ran out... Read more
The goals of the Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe (ACARE) to reduce CO2 emissions by 50 percent, NOx emissions by 80 percent and noise cut by 50 percent by 2020 has seen a... Read more
Engineers from the Bristol wing of the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company (EADS) have announced the development of the first bicycle using Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM) techn... Read more