Commercial Aerospace

The Teledyne Space Imaging CCD314, CIS119, and CCD327-20 imaging sensors for the MetOp-SG-A1 Earth-observation satellites launched last Wednesday.
Aug. 18, 2025
MetOp-SG-A1 is the first pair of next-generation satellites that will orbit the Earth together 14 times a day to observe any location on Earth.
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A commercial aircraft flying low over water and in silhouette.
Aug. 18, 2025
Airports can better handle the high traffic levels without the enormous expense of building new runways or terminals, making better use of existing infrastructure, Chris Polynin...
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The convergence of cyber and physical attack surfaces in modern warfare increases the risk of catastrophic breaches, making hardware- and software-level security measures a foundational requirement.
Aug. 15, 2025
The line between cyber and physical threats in today's digital battlespace continues to blur, and the consequences of a data breach can be catastrophic. Whether protecting avionics...
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The Research Aircraft for electric Vertical takeoff and landing Enabling techNologies Subscale Wind Tunnel and Flight Test undergoes a free flight test on the City Environment Range Testing for Autonomous Integrated Navigation range at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia on April 22, 2025. NASA/Rob Lorkiewicz photo.
Aug. 15, 2025
Currently, most companies developing air taxis keep the information about how their aircraft behaves internal, so NASA is using this small aircraft to produce public, non-proprietary...
The Gateway space station will be a vital component of the Artemis missions to return humans to the lunar surface for scientific discovery and chart the path for the first human missions to Mars.
Aug. 14, 2025
It's been more than half a century since humans first walked on the moon. American astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot there in July 1969. The last human on the moon left ...