DC-8 on her way to Germany for NASA International Aviation Research
NASA’s DC-8 “Flying Laboratory” is on its way to Germany for a joint flight campaign to sample clouds, contrails or aircraft emissions.NASA’s ongoing research...
[Video] Fokker F-28 crash test at NASA Langley
The NASA Langley Research Center has released a short clip of a Fokker F-28 aircraft being dropped at their Landing and Impact Research Facility,...
Successful conclusion of the SOFIA mission at Cologne Bonn airport: an infrared observatory on NASA’s Boeing 747SP
15 flights to carry out research into outer space
After around six weeks based at Cologne Bonn Airport, SOFIA, the world's only flying infrared observatory,...
Boeing to support International Space Station operations through 2024
Contract extension takes NASA-Boeing partnership for orbiting laboratory into the third decade
Boeing, NASA’s lead industry partner for the International Space Station (ISS) since 1993,...
SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts join Expedition 64 crew on the ISS
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon have arrived...
NASA begins work to build a quieter supersonic passenger jet
The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA's award of a contract for the preliminary design of...
Two Airbus H135 helicopters delivered to support space exploration at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
The aircraft will provide aerial security and support of the upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon launch to the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for late...
James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed
The deployment of the main mirror of the James Webb Space Telescope was successfully completed on Saturday 8 January. NASA's latest gem will now...
Boeing and NASA complete hot fire test of Space Launch System (SLS) core stage for Artemis I
Full-duration, eight-minute-plus engine burn caps “Green Run” test campaign that helps certify core stage for the launch
Stage to be refurbished and delivered...
NASA’s DC-8 completes final mission, set to retire
NASA's DC-8 aeroplane, nicknamed the world's largest flying science laboratory, completed its final mission on April 1st after 37 years of service.
It will officially...
“Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich” satellite successfully lifted off into space on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
The Airbus-built European ocean satellite "Copernicus Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich" has successfully begun its “Seeing-the-Seas” mission. On 21 November 2020 the satellite lifted off from...
“Fly me to the Moon”: Airbus wins ESA contract for three more European Service Modules for NASA’s Orion spacecraft
Going to the Moon with the Artemis programme involves Europe
Service modules being built by Airbus Bremen - 10 European nations involved
The European Space...
Boeing is awarded a NASA sustainable flight demonstrator contract
NASA, Boeing and partners aim to cut fuel use and emissions by up to 30% in single-aisle aeroplanes
Advances in sustainable technology are...
SpaceX to send privately crewed Dragon spacecraft beyond the Moon next year
Privately owned SpaceX company published this interesting and exciting news today:We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private...
NASA begins air taxi flight testing with Joby Aviation
NASA began flight testing Monday with Joby Aviation’s all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft as part of the agency’s Advanced Air Mobility (AAM)...
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed on Earth
NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner of the Russian space agency Roscosmos landed on Earth at 16:54 UTC in...
MD-90 aeroplane arrives at Boeing site for modification to test Transonic Truss-Braced Wing
Boeing has ferried an MD-90 aeroplane to the site where it will be modified to test the Transonic Truss-Braced Wing (TTBW) configuration as part...
Nokia selected by NASA to build first-ever cellular network on the Moon
LTE/4G technology promises to revolutionise lunar surface communications by delivering reliable, high data rates while containing power, size and cost.
Communications will be...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully touches asteroid
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly...
NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable-zone planets around single star
This information is not directly aviation-related, but due its importance in the field of outer space which is not so distant from aviation, we...