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The World''s Largest 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets

In traditional aerospace manufacturing, a design change can require almost a year of retooling and adjustments. Because hardware changes take so long, the avionics department is

The Truth About Terahertz

UPDATE 5 MARCH 2024: In Terahertz technology, everything old is news again. “Not that much has changed in the past 10 or 15 years,” says Peter H. Siegel. Siegel, an IEEE Life Fellow,

Electric Aircraft Motor Gets Superconducting Upgrade

High-temperature superconductors are transforming electric aircraft motors from companies like Hinetics, offering unprecedented power density.

GPS Spoofing Attacks Are Dangerously Misleading Airliners

These tools are beginning to replace—or at least, amend—the role of full-fledged physics simulation in the automotive and aerospace industries, semiconductor engineering, and more.

Fly the Hybrid Skies

For this test series, engineers at GE Aerospace assembled two sets of a hybrid-electric system, representing the right- and left-engine sides of an airplane, and simulated the electrical loads

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The latest developments in aviation, satellites, astrophysics, space flight, and space exploration

Helium Giants Return: LTA Research Airship Over SF Bay

The age of airships is reborn! LTA Research''s Pathfinder 1, a 124-meter helium giant, soared over San Francisco Bay, marking a new era in sustainable aviation. Funded by Sergey Brin,

Winner: Carbon Takeoff

The aerospace industry has sought to use more and more composites instead of metal to create more agile and fuel-efficient aircraft.

MEMS In Space

A MEMS-based digital thruster for attitude control is under development by Aerospace, TRW Inc. (headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio), and the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.

Ukraine''s Aerostat Revolution Revives Airship Technology

In the heart of Ukraine''s defense, helium-filled aerostats extend drone reach and safeguard troops.