The Airbus Zephyr S completed a successful 2021 test flight campaign in the United States. The final Airbus solar-powered High Altitude Platform System (HAPS) flight touched down on September13 in Arizona, USA, ending the most ambitious and successful Zephyr flight campaign to date. The flight campaign had a clear customer focus – to demonstrate how […]
Flight Dynamics
AstroAccess + ZERO-G Deliver A Weightless Experience To 12 Disability Ambassors
AstroAccess and Zero Gravity Corporation (ZERO-G) successfully completed a parabolic flight with a crew of 12 ambassadors with mobility, vision, and hearing disabilities on Sunday, October 17. The ZERO-G aircraft ascended to an altitude of 32,000 feet, at which point the vehicle commenced its parabolic maneuvers. Ambassadors carried out planned demonstrations over the course of […]
Rocket Lab Acquires Advanced Solutions, Inc
Rocket Lab USA, Inc. (Nasdaq: RKLB) (“Rocket Lab” or “the Company”) has completed their acquisition of Advanced Solutions, Inc. (ASI), a Colorado-based aerospace engineering firm delivering mission proven space software, mission simulation and test systems, and Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC) solutions, for $40 million, plus the potential for an additional $5.5 million performance earnout […]
JAXA Awards MMX Mission Flight Units Contract To MDA
MDA Ltd. (TSX:MDA) has been awarded the full contract from MELCO (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation) in Japan to provide a Laser Rangefinder (LRF) altimeter for the JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) MMX (Martian Moons eXploration) mission. MDA will be providing two redundant flight units (laser range finder – LRF) altimeters and one engineering development unit (EDU) […]
Firefly Aerospace’s First Launch Of Their Alpha Rocket — Anomaly Occurs — Captured Flight Data Encouraging
On September 2nd, Firefly Aerospace Inc. conducted the maiden flight of their Alpha launch vehicle from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. “Firefly has conducted the first test flight of our Alpha vehicle. The day marked a major advancement for the Firefly team, as we demonstrated that we ‘arrived’ as a company capable of building […]
Thuraya Selects GMV For Control + Flight Dynamics Systems For Thuraya-4 NGS
Al Yah Satellite Communications Company PJSC (“Yahsat”), listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (“ADX”) under (SYMBOL: YAHSAT) (ISIN: AEA007501017), has selected the Spanish group, GMV, to supply the Spacecraft Control and Flight Dynamics Systems for Thuraya 4-NGS, a next-generation, L-band, mobile communications satellite system scheduled to start operations in 2024. Through this new partnership, […]