Flight Tests Prove Structural Soundness of Gulfstream's Quiet
Spike At Supersonic Speeds
Gulfstream Aerospace's Quiet Spike sonic boom mitigator
successfully accomplished its first supersonic flight on Friday,
October 20, achieving a major program milestone. Gulfstream, in
collaboration with the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, has been
flight testing the structural integrity of its Quiet Spike since
mid-July.
The XPrize Foundation May Just Be The Catalyst To Our Next
Evolutionary Leap
How do you communicate something that you know the recipient of
the information will not understand unless it is personally
experienced? That's the challenge I face as I sit here and try to
translate into words the experiences of the last two days at the
XPrize Cup in Las Cruces Spaceport, New Mexico.
Educational Program Focuses On Quarter-Mile Wide Asteroid,
Could Impact Earth In 2036
In December, 2004 scientists around the world raised the
planet's level of anxiety by announcing that a 1,400-foot-wide
asteroid had a good chance of slamming into our planet on Friday,
April 13, 2029.
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