Aerospace Inventions
Innovations in aerospace industry
The Man Who Invented the Predator
Before he designed the world’s most feared drone, Abraham Karem was just trying to get a robot to stay in the air.
April 2013 |
By Richard Whittle
The Galileo Project
Why Europe wants its own satellite navigation program.
April 2013 |
By Craig Mellow
Pedal Power
University of Maryland students close in on the human-powered helicopter prize.
January 2013 |
By Paul Glenshaw
Robot Reporters
Will UAVs become as indispensable for journalists as notepads and digital recorders?
November 16, 2012 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Dragonflies for Sale
Robot insects are about to go commercial.
November 07, 2012 |
By Tony Reichhardt
750 Meters Later
Masten Space System's test vehicle, Xombie, took a nice ride this week.
August 16, 2012 |
By Heather Goss
Robot Fall, Robot Get Up
When the AirBurr flying robot crashes into an obstacle, it rights itself and keeps going.
July 03, 2012 |
By Rebecca Maksel
Hurry-Up Satellites
These Pentagon mavericks want to launch spacecraft within a week of taking the order. Wish them luck.
July 2012 |
By Todd Neff
Is SpaceX changing the rocket equation?
1 visionary + 3 launchers + 1,500 employees = ?
January 2012 |
By Andrew Chaikin
The Flying Winnebago
For some reason the heli-camper never really caught on.
January 2012 |
By James R. Chiles
Lost in America
Airplanes that go missing are often untraceable. Why is effective tracking technology being ignored?
November 2011 |
By Michael Behar
Just One Word: Plastics
The world's first all-composite airplane may fly again.
November 2011 |
By Stephen Joiner
Following the Race to the Moon
In their efforts to "ignite a new era of lunar exploration," the Google Lunar X Prize wants competitors to reach out through social media so the rest of us can follow along.
October 25, 2011 |
By Heather Goss
Distance Runners
Unmanned aerial vehicles redefine the term "nonstop flight."
September 2011 |
By Michael Milstein
It’s Alive!
Robonaut 2—the humanoid robot soon to be tested as an astronaut’s helper on the International Space Station—is being powered up for the first time this morning (screen shot at left). Since arriving on the space shuttle last February, the robot has been sitting on its pedestal, lifeless. It won’t be commanded to move for a [...]
August 22, 2011 |
By Tony Reichhardt
The Perfect Wind Storm
In the 1950s, engineers at Cleveland's brand-new supersonic wind tunnel battled shock waves, unstarts, and the local power company.
August 2011 |
By Jeremy Davis
From Zero to 250
Sikorsky’s X2 is more hot rod than helicopter.
July 2011 |
By George C. Larson, Member, NAA
