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In a stunning betrayals of all things GA, the FAA said they and the City of Santa Monica, California have reached a settlement agreement to resolve longstanding litigation over the future of Santa Monica Airport. In short, the FAA’s agreement will spell the death of Santa Monica Airport. While the agreement requires the city to maintain the airport in operation until 2028, other provisions of the agreement effectively put the airport out of business. The agreement allows Santa Monica to shorten the airport's single runway to 3,500 feet from its current length of 4,973 feet. The outcry has been swift and very negative. We have lea
European Space Agency Plans Second Tim Peake Space Mission
Business Secretary Greg Clark has confirmed that Tim Peake will make a second mission to the International Space Station to continue work on scientific research and broadening our understanding of the space environment.
ABS-2A Will Deliver In-Home Communications Services Across Areas Of Asia, Africa And Russia
A Boeing satellite built for ABS entered into commercial service, providing enhanced satellite services including direct-to-home television services on Jan. 21 to customers in Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, Russia, South Asia and South East Asia.
Lockheed Martin's Optical Expertise Could Deliver Breathtaking Panoramas Of The Star Field
NASA has enlisted Lockheed Martin in its hunt for dark energy, a mysterious force powering the universe's accelerating expansion. An instrument assembly the company is developing, if selected by NASA for production, will be the core of the primary scientific instrument aboard the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), whose mission aims to uncover hundreds of millions more galaxies and reveal the physics that shapes them.
Four-Year Contract Covers Supply Of Equipment And Services
Airbus Defense and Space has been awarded a contract to supply satellite communication systems for UGAP, the French public procurement agency. This 4-year contract covers the supply of equipment and services for fixed and mobile satellite communications (Satcom) in the Ku and Ka frequency bands.
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Only 10 months since its introduction, DJI has informed its dealers that it is ending production of the basic Phantom 4 sUAS. And that's not all. In the message sent to dealers, the company said that the Phantom 3 is also out of production, while the stocks of the popular Mavic Pro and Mavic Pro combo are very low. The memo to dealers said that while production is releasing more and more aircraft, DJI would be withholding all production to service their own clients on DJI.COM until the end of this month. At CES 2017, ANN met up with Yuneec Project Manager, Trent Siggard, to talk about upgrades for their Breeze 4K personal drone. Siggard says the Breeze was designed t
NASA will honor members of the NASA family, including the crews of Apollo 1 and space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery during the agency's annual Day of Remembrance on Tuesday, Jan. 31.
Will Assure That Propulsion Systems Work Properly Before Spacecraft Flies
Airbus Defense and Space delivered to NASA a propulsion test module for the Orion program. The Propulsion Qualification Test Model (PQM) will be used to check that the Orion European Service Module (ESM) spacecraft’s propulsion subsystem functions correctly.
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