At 3.44am on May 22nd the Dragon spacecraft breathed fire at last, blasting off from Cape Canaveral in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rock
And this time, it was a passenger. As anybody that follows the U.S. space program is likely aware of, the space shuttle Discovery (the shuttle with the most missions under its… belt) was taken on the back of a 747 to its final home at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia (suburban Washington, D.C).
A highly specialized NOAA jet typically used to study hurricanes will fly over the north Pacific Ocean during the next two months gathering data that will enhance winter storm forecasts for the entire North American continent.
The success of the flight test program is the result of a team of
dedicated government and contractor professionals," said Larry
Lawson, Lockheed Martin's F-35 program executive vice president and general
manager.
The success of the flight test program is the result of a team of
dedicated government and contractor professionals," said Larry
Lawson, Lockheed Martin's F-35 program executive vice president and general
manager.
The success of the flight test program is the result of a team of
dedicated government and contractor professionals," said Larry
Lawson, Lockheed Martin's F-35 program executive vice president and general
manager.
When engineers outfitted a six-legged robotic bug with wings in an effort to improve its mobility, they unexpectedly shed some light on the evolution of flight. The wings nearly doubled the running speed of the 25-gram robot, but was that good enough for takeoff?
Mechanical engineers are using remote-controlled rhinoceros beetles to study the mechanics behind their ability to fly. Research findings could inform the next generation of aircraft design.
Steven J. Schowalter, Kuang Chen, Wade G. Rellergert, Scott T. Sullivan, and Eric R. Hudson We demonstrate the integration of a linear quadrupole trap with a simple time-of-flight mass spectrometer with medium-mass resolution (m/Deltam ~ 50) geared towards the demands of atomic, molecular, and chemical physics experiments.
