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NASA streams 4K video from plane to space station via laser

A Pilatus PC-12 aircraft equipped with a portable laser terminal transmitted 4K video to the International Space Station and ...
The Aviationist

Blackbird Beginnings: The A-12 Oxcart Story

The well-known SR-71 owes its roots to a more obscure predecessor, the A-12 developed by the famous Lockheed ‘Skunk Works’ as ...

Elon Musk says Starship to launch next week in Texas after abort

SpaceX was unable to launch its Starship rocket from Starbase in South Texas after multiple engines failed to start. Here's ...
Scientific American

Unlucky number 13? SpaceX’s latest Starship launch attempt ends in a scrub

SpaceX’s first attempt to launch its Starship megarocket on its thirteenth flight test ended before it could properly begin, ...
Ars Technica

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental aircraft designed to replace loud sonic booms with a quieter thump equivalent ...
SpaceNews

NASA and Boeing still uncertain about when Starliner will return to flight

Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft docked to the International Space Station during the Crew Flight Test mission. Credit: NASA WASHINGTON — NASA’s safety advisers say that while the agency and ...
Phys.org

Payload electronics and flight software being developed for NASA's Landsat 10 spacecraft

Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is developing electronics and flight software for the NASA/U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Landsat 10 satellite, which is set to launch in 2031 to collect new and ...
Yahoo

NASA’s New Supersonic Jet Just Broke the Sound Barrier Twice on Test Flights

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA's X-59 is quietly reaching significant milestones. The X-59 went supersonic for the first time on June 5, reaching a top ...
Robb Report

NASA’s New Supersonic Jet Just Broke the Sound Barrier Twice on Test Flights

The X-59 went supersonic for the first time on June 5, reaching a top speed of approximately Mach 1.1 (713 mph) and an altitude of 43,400 feet on an 81-minute mission from Edwards Air Force Base in ...
Flying

NASA’s X-59 Is Picking Up the Pace

NASA's experimental X-59 supersonic jet, developed by Lockheed Martin, recently achieved Mach 1.4 and 55,000 feet as part of its mission to demonstrate quiet supersonic flight. The aircraft is ...
Engadget

NASA's X-59 reaches speed and altitude milestones ahead of first quiet supersonic flights

NASA's X-59 research plane took its first supersonic flight at the beginning of the month, and now it's demonstrated that it can reach the speed and altitude conditions it'll need to achieve for ...
The New York Times

NASA Leader Pushes Back on Complaints That No Women Will Be on the Next Artemis Mission

NASA’s missions these days rarely feature all-male crews. Jared Isaacman, its administrator, said women play prominent roles throughout the space agency. By Kenneth Chang When NASA announced the ...