by Daniel Camenzuli | Jul 18, 2024 | Space, Technology
Boeing has provided NASA with the second core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Built at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF), the core stage is designed to send the Artemis II crew to lunar orbit for the first time in 50 years. The Boeing-built...
by Calum Wilson | Apr 24, 2024 | Space
NASA administrator Bill Nelson and Japan’s minister of education, culture, sports, science and Technology (MEXT) Masahito Moriyama have signed an agreement to advance sustainable human exploration of the Moon. Under the agreement, Japan will design, develop, and...
by charlotte@aviationnews-online.com | Apr 12, 2024 | Adventure Travel, Flight, Travel
As a total solar eclipse passed across North America on April 8 2024, beginning over the South Pacific Ocean and moving northwards through Mexico, the United States and Canada, daylight briefly turned to darkness for around four minutes in what many onlookers...
by Calum Wilson | Apr 5, 2024 | Space, Technology
NASA has awarded the Lunar Dawn team a lunar terrain vehicle services (LTVS) contract. The contract is led by Lunar Outpost as the prime contractor along with its principal partner Lockheed Martin and teammates General Motors, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company,...
by Calum Wilson | Feb 12, 2024 | Editorial Comment, Flight, Technology
NASA and Lockheed Martin formally unveiled their quiet supersonic aircraft, the X-59, on January 12, 2024. The aircraft will travel faster than the speed of sound at Mach 1.4 (925 mph). Mach being the ratio of the speed of the aircraft to the speed of sound through...
