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SPACEX WINS NASA CONTRACT TO COMPLETE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCCESSOR TO THE SPACE SHUTTLE
First Astronaut Mission Expected in Three Years
WASHINGTON – NASA has awarded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) $75 million to develop a revolutionary launch escape system that will enable the company’s Dragon spacecraft to carry astronauts. The Congressionally mandated award is… Continue reading
NASA Sets Launch Date For Space Shuttle Endeavour Mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly and his five crewmates are scheduled to begin a 14-day mission to the International Space Station with a launch at 3:47 p.m. EDT on Friday, April 29, from NASA’s Kennedy Space… Continue reading
GE Capital Aviation Services Announces Signing of Lease Contracts With SAS for Five Boeing 737-800 and Twelve Boeing 737-700 Aircraft
GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing unit of GE, announced the signing of lease agreements with Stockholm-based Scandinavian Airline System (SAS) for the delivery of five new Boeing 737-800 aircraft and twelve used Boeing… Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Tests JAGM Tri-Mode Seeker on Sabreliner in High-Speed, Long-Range Captive Flight Tests
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] recently tested its Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) tri-mode seeker in high-speed captive flight tests on a Sabreliner jet at Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz., demonstrating the robustness of the seeker on fixed-wing aircraft.
The long-range, high-speed seeker… Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Tactical Reconnaissance Radar Completes Unmanned Aerial System Test Flights
NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 19th, 2011 — Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT] Tactical Reconnaissance and Counter-Concealment-Enabled Radar, TRACER, has completed flight testing aboard a Predator B MQ-9 Unmanned Aerial System. TRACER is a dual-band (UHF and VHF) synthetic-aperture radar capable of detecting… Continue reading
Boeing Supports Australian Army Kiowa Fleet Through 60,000 Flight Hours
Boeing… Continue reading
Eurocopter delivers the milestone 1,000th Dauphin helicopter to Indias Pawan Hans Helicopters
Eurocopter’s 1,000th helicopter from its Dauphin family was delivered today to India’s Pawan Hans Helicopters Limited, the world’s largest civilian operator of this successful twin-engine, medium weight rotary-wing aircraft.
Pawan Hans’ milestone helicopter is an AS365 N3 version, configured for… Continue reading
The Government of Saskatchewan Receives its First CL-215T Aircraft
Bombardier Aerospace announced today the entry into service of the first CL-215T aircraft to be operated by the Government of Saskatchewan, which purchased a total of four turbine conversion kits for its fleet of CL-215 piston engine amphibious aircraft.
These… Continue reading
First production Sukhoi Superjet 100 delivered to Armavia
Yerevan (Armenia) – Delivery ceremony of the first production Sukhoi Superjet
100 SN 95007 to Armenian aircompany “Armavia†took place in Zvartnots airport today. The
aircraft received the name after the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin and the tail number EK… Continue reading
Germania takes delivery of the first new Airbus A319
S.A.T., the holding of the Berlin-based German carrier Germania, has taken delivery of its first of five directly purchased A319s. The order is part of the airline’s fleet rollover to eco-efficient Airbus A319s, which is planned to be completed by… Continue reading