Asteroid mining might compromise telecom and defense satellites
Asteroid mining might provide a lot of jobs and new sources of gold, titanium, platinum and other metals, as well as hydrogen and ammonia in the future. But it could also spell disaster for telecom satellites orbiting the Earth if it’s not managed properly. You see, some companies planning to mine the celestial objects […]
SpaceX; April 27 Commercial Launch, Watch it Live!
As promised, SpaceX is picking up its launch pace in 2015 with a pair of liftoffs from the Florida space coast slated for the next week and a half. They follow closely on the heels of a quartet of successful blastoffs from Cape Canaveral, already accomplished since January. If all goes well, a commercial […]
Heico soars to profits, one airplane part at a time
“How do you make $1 million? You make $1 and do it a million times.” That’s how veteran government Laurans Mendelson describes the success of Hollywood-based totally Heico Corp., the high-tech manufacturer that regularly stories file results, with $23 million in income on just about $226 million in sales remaining quarter on my own. Heico […]
NASA’s futuristic X-48C hybrid wing-body plane takes flight
The design, which is thought to be highly fuel efficient and offer longer range, could someday become the universal standard. But first comes several more years of tests. NASA said today that its experimental X-48C hybrid wing-body airplane took flight for the first time. A remotely powered prototype that’s housed at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research […]