Firefly Aerospace has received an award from NASA for $93.3 million to deliver a suite of ten NASA-sponsored science and technology demonstration payloads to Mare Crisium in the Moon’s Crisium basin.
Firefly’s ‘Blue Ghost’ lunar lander will deliver the payloads to the lunar surface in 2023 in fulfillment of Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) task order 19D, managed by NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. Blue Ghost (named after a breed of rare firefly) will operate on-board payloads through lunar transit, during lunar orbit, and on the lunar surface for a complete lunar day (about 14 Earth days) and well into the freezing dark of lunar night. Airspeeder is revealing first looks at what they call the world's first fully functioning electric flying racing car. The Airspeeder Mk3, is a full-sized remotely-operated electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle (eVTOL). It will compete in an upcoming remotely-piloted Airspeeder racing series that will stand as a technical test-bed and feeder series to a manned racing series in 2022. The office of United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez has confirmed the filing of a criminal complaint charging Henry Alejandro Jimenez (33,
Orlando) with violating national defense airspace. If convicted, Jimenez faces a maximum penalty of one year in federal prison. According to the complaint, on February 3, 2021, the FAA issued a TFR covering an area extending outward from downtown Tampa. This TFR, along with others, was issued as part of a comprehensive security plan designed to protect and secure the events leading up to, and including, Super Bowl LV. That day, FBI agents saw a UAS flying near the Barrymore Hotel Tampa Riverwalk—an area within the TFR. The FBI agents then located Jiminez, the operator of the drone, nearby in downtown Tampa. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne-Unmanned!!!
Airborne-Unmanned 02.09.21 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Tuesday, February 9th, 2021... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Kimberly Kay, Sophie Hurlock, Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, and Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, this episode covers:
- NASA Awards Firefly Aerospace $93.3M to Deliver Payloads to the Moon in 2023
- Airspeeder Aims To Be World's First Electric Flying Race Car
- Just What We Needed... Drone Pilot Busted Near Super Bowl
- Drones Deliver At-Home COVID-19 Test Kits
- Hillwood and Bell Demonstrate Autonomous Package Delivery
- Latest Apache Variant Can Track UAVs
- One Last Word About Super Bowl Drone Incursions
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