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Northrop Grumman has begun flight tests on the MQ-8C Fire Scout aircraft, a modified Bell 407 helicopter that is able to fly fully autonomously.    Built for the US Navy, the Fire Scout aims to bring increased speed, endurance and payload capacity to maritime operations. The U.S. Navy recently completed initial operational test and evaluation aboard the USS Coronado (LCS 4) ...

ADS has announced that 2018 aircraft production is well ahead of 2017, with the first eight months of the year seeing global aerospace manufacturers deliver 41 more aircraft than at the same point in 2017.   In total, 927 commercial aircraft have been delivered in 2018 which are worth up to £18bn to UK industry.  The UK’s aerospace expertise continues to shine brightly, with...

NASA has seen its Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) launch successfully aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta 2 rocket on 15th September. The satellite’s sole instrument is the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) which is tasked with gathering enough data to estimate the annual height change of the Greenland Antarctic ice sheets to wi...

Antrix Corporation, the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organisation, has successfully launched two satellites on behalf of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL). The first satellite, dubbed the NovaSAR-1, is a Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite that will be used for monitoring Earth from Space.  The NovaSAR-1 is on a technology demonstration mission that is des...