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May 18, 2015

Airborne 05.18.15: 'Throw And Shoot' UAVs?, McCain v Russian Rockets, AirVenture Vintage A/C

Also: First Diesel Sportsman TWTT, AVW: Close Air Support, Another White House UAV, Frontier CEO, TSA Patdowns, NASA/AUVSI, Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator

It appears that the ultimate selfie camera has been invented. A company has introduced a camera on a quadcopter platform it says is the world's first "throw-and-shoot" device. Called Lily, the quadcopter will follow a person wearing a GPS tracking device and automatically focus its camera on the person wearing it, and shoot HD stills or videos. The device and its carrying case are both waterproof allowing operations under wet conditions. When defense and intelligence officials in Washington, D.C. said that they needed to continue to purchase Russian-built RD-180 rocket engines for use by United Launch Alliance, U

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NASA Plans Second Test Of Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD)

Flight Planned In June From U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) On Kauai, Hawaii

NASA plans a second test of its Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) early next month, with a test window of June 2-12 set for the flight. The text will be conducted from the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) on Kauai, Hawaii.

Issues RFI Seeking Ideas For Revolutionary Telescope System

Imaging of Earth from satellites in space has vastly improved in recent years. But the opposite challenge—using Earth-based systems to find, track and provide detailed characterization of satellites and other objects in high orbits—has frustrated engineers even as the need for space domain awareness has grown. State-of-the-art imagery of objects in low Earth orbit (LEO), up to 1,200 miles high, can achieve resolution of 1 pixel for every 10 cm today, providing relatively crisp details.

Airbus A310 ZERO-G To Engage In Research Projects

ESA, France’s space agency CNES and the German aerospace center DLR inaugurated the Airbus A310 ZERO-G refitted for altered gravity by running 12 scientific experiments this week.

Spacecraft Scheduled For Launch In Early 2017

Sierra Nevada Corporation’s (SNC) Space Systems was competitively selected by Exelis Geospatial Systems to develop and build the Radiation Budget Instrument (RBI) Azimuth Rotation Module (ARM) for the Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) mission. Exelis is the prime contractor to NASA for the RBI.

Secretary Of Defense, Director Of National Intelligence Say Purchases Are Necessary To assure 'Access To Space'

When defense and intelligence officials in Washington, D.C. said that they needed to continue to purchase Russian-built RD-180 rocket engines for use by United Launch Alliance, U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, had a simple answer; "No."