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Optical Communications Could Protect Aircraft from Jamming

More drones, satellites, and aircraft continue to fill the air space while they transmit data...

Meta-Skin Traps Radar Waves From All Directions

Engineers at Iowa State University have developed cloaking technology that could help make stealth aircraft even...

SAE International Revises Aerospace Radio-Frequency Identification Standards

SAE International’s G-18 committee is working to publish AS6023, a new standard that applies...

Giant Robots are 3D Printing the Wings of Boeing’s Next Jet

Boeing describes its new 777X as “the largest and most efficient twin-engine jet in...

Electromagnetic Acceleration Could Send Spacecraft to Mars in Three Days

A new propulsion technique using an amplified laser beam could push a spacecraft to...
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Engineers Test Experimental Electric Aircraft on the Ground

A truck with an airplane wing attached to it barrels down a dusty road at 73 miles per hour. The contraption is even stranger up close, because the wing has 18 electric motors powered by lithium iron phosphate batteries built into its carbon composite body.

NASA Proposes 21st Century X-Plane Program

A new ten-year federal budget plan includes New Aviation Horizons—a NASA program to design, build, and fly a new generation of experimental aircraft known as “X-planes.” If the budget that President Obama recently proposed is approved, NASA would begin the program, which aims to redesign aircraft in order to reduce fuel emissions while making flights quieter and less expensive.

ESA’s Mercury Orbiter Undergoes EMC Testing

The European Space Agency’s BepiColombo orbiter recent underwent electromagnetic compatibility, radiated emission and susceptibility...

Solar-Powered Spacecraft Breaks Distance Record at 493 Million Miles from the Sun

NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter is now farther away from the sun than any other...

NASA Tests 3D Printed Rocket Engine Components

A NASA team is one step closer to building a 100 percent 3D-printed rocket...
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