India to Provide Cost Incentives to Use Homemade Version of GPS
New Delhi (Sputnik) Aug 10, 2016 -
According to official sources, India's government is exploring several options, including reduced charges for air navigation services.
The Indian government may soon announce incentives to airline operators for installing the locally developed Aided Geo Augmented Navigation system (GAGAN). The aviation ministry, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Airports Authority of ...
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Undergraduates Build Star-Tracking Instrument for NASA Research Rockets
Rochester NY (SPX) Aug 12, 2016 -
Rochester Institute of Technology undergraduates are making a "compass" for rockets using a new kind of detector technology. The instrument will fly on a NASA technology demonstration mission later this year.
The student team is designing, building - and deploying - a telescope and camera that will orient the rocket payload based on the images of stars. RIT's Cryogenic Star Tracking Attitu ...
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Russia's Ray Guns: The Military Capability of Moscow's Secret Laser Weapons
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 10, 2016 -
Russia's Defense Ministry has revealed that the military has commissioned several new types of laser weaponry, without further elaborating on any specifics of the systems. However, RIA Novosti spoke to a number of Russian military experts to find out what these advanced weapons may be capable of.
Russia seems to be breathing life into the development of "weapons based on new physical principles ...
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1400 km of optical fiber connect optical clocks in France and Germany
Braunschweig, Germany (SPX) Aug 10, 2016 -
In the past few years, optical atomic clocks have made spectacular progress, becoming 100 times more precise than the best caesium clocks. So far, their precision has been available only locally, since frequency transfer via satellite cannot provide sufficient resolution.
This has recently changed thanks to a new direct optical connection between France and Germany, established by joint wo ...
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NASA to hold Industry Day to discuss Universal Stage Adapter
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2016 -
NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland will host an industry day on Aug. 17 to share information about a Draft Request for Proposal for the Space Launch System's (SLS) Universal Stage Adapter (USA). Media are invited to attend a press conference and ask questions at 1 p.m.
peakers will include:
+ Janet Kavandi, center director, Glenn
+ Stephen Creech, acting director, Spacecraft ...
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SpaceX lands Falcon 9 rocket after launching Japanese satellite
Washington (AFP) Aug 14, 2016 -
SpaceX successfully landed a reusable Falcon 9 rocket on a floating drone ship at sea early Sunday after the vehicle had sent a Japanese communications satellite into orbit.
The California-based company's eighth launch this year was part of its ongoing effort to re-use costly rocket parts instead of jettisoning them into the ocean.
It was also the fourth time SpaceX has vertically lande ...
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Unleaded Zeppelin: Why Airships May Again Start to Compete With Planes
Moscow (Sputnik) Aug 15, 2016 -
This week's presentation of the Airlander 10, a huge plane-airship hybrid, which was towed from Britain's largest airship hangar in Bedfordshire, has prompted experts to speculate that we may see a return of the dirigible, according to the Russian newspaper Vzglyad.
The Airlander 10, which stretches as long as a soccer field and is as high as a nine-story apartment building, is considered ...
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Ideas for Protecting Against Small Unmanned Air Systems
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 15, 2016 -
The rapid evolution of small unmanned air systems (sUAS) technologies is fueling the exponential growth of the commercial drone sector, creating new asymmetric threats for warfighters. sUASs' size and low cost enable novel concepts of employment that present challenges to current defense systems.
These emerging irregular systems and concepts of operations in diverse environments require te ...
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US Navy deploys RQ-20B AeroVironment Puma AE with pecision recovery
Monrovia CA (SPX) Aug 15, 2016 -
AeroVironment, Inc. reports that the US Navy has tested and deployed the RQ-20B Puma small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) aboard a Flight I Guided Missile Destroyer (DDG Class). Some of these exercises included the use of AeroVironment's fully autonomous system to recover the aircraft aboard a ship.
The US Navy issued a report on August 3 from the Arabian Gulf describing how Puma AE is als ...
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