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NASA SELECTS SPACEX’S FALCON 9 BOOSTER AND DRAGON SPACECRAFT FOR CARGO RESUPPLY SERVICES TO THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
Space X Falcon F1 at liftoff
F9/Dragon Will Replace the Cargo Transport Function of the Space Shuttle after 2010
HAWTHORNE, CA – December 23, 2008 – NASA today announced its selection of the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon… Continue reading
Northrop Grumman’s Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration Unmanned Aircraft Program Receives Prestigious U.S. Navy Test Team Award
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE:NOC) RQ-4 Global Hawk Maritime Demonstration (GHMD) team was recently named Test Team of the Quarter for the second quarter of 2008 by the U.S. Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 20. The team won the coveted… Continue reading
KLM becomes full owner of Martinair
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will have full ownership of Martinair. KLM and the A.P. Moller – Maersk Group have agreed on the sale of A.P. Moller – Maersk Group’s 50% stake in Martinair to KLM, which transaction was cleared by… Continue reading
IAI and Elbit Systems Awarded $141 Million Contract to Supply Combined Airborne Imagery Intelligence Systems to the Turkish Air Force
Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. (IAI) and Elbit Systems Ltd. (NASDAQ:ESLT) announced today that their respective subsidiaries, ELTA Systems Ltd. (ELTA)… Continue reading
Second Sukhoi Superjet 100 prototype takes to the skies in Komsomolsk
The second of four SSJ100 prototypes SN95003 took to the skies on December 24, thus joining the flight test program started earlier this year.
The aircraft took off from the factory runaway and safely landed after a successful 2h 30min.… Continue reading
Etihad expands Rolls-Royce Trent fleet with new A330 order
Rolls-Royce announced today that Etihad Airways, the Abu Dhabi-based national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has chosen the Trent 700EP to power a further eight Airbus A330 aircraft. The Trent 700EP is the latest and more fuel-efficient version of… Continue reading