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September 02, 2016

Airborne 09.02.16: Google Lunar XPRIZE, Gone West: Joe Sutter, Germanwings Update

Also: Parrot X-Wing Drone, Growing ANN, Master Instructors, Nixon's Helicopter, GA-ASI UAS, 747 For Sale, NBAA-BACE

Another XPRIZE competitor will be headed for the moon. XPRIZE has officially verified Team Synergy Moon’s launch agreement as part of the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE, which is a global competition for privately-funded teams to land an unmanned spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The Synergy Moon mission will use a NEPTUNE 8 rocket, built and launched by Interorbital Systems, to carry a lunar lander and at least one rover to the surface of the moon, launching from an open-ocean location off the California coast during the second half of 2017. he man known as the "Father of the 747" has Gone West. Joe Sutter passed away earlier this week at the age of

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Copernicus Sentinel-1A Satellite Hit By Space Particle

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Lockheed Martin Will Continue To Support The Venerable Spacecraft

NASA has awarded a contract extension to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Corporation (LMSSC) of Greenbelt, Maryland, to continue maintaining the health and safety of the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope observatory through the next phase of its science mission.