Science news articles about 'unmanned flight'QinetiQ says it has broken unmanned flight record
... built from carbon fiber and powered using paper-thin solar panels has broken the world record for longest-lasting unmanned flight, its manufacturer claimed Sunday....Unmanned aircraft to study Southern California smog and its consequences
... and 12,000 feet. Because of Federal Aviation Administration regulations that prohibit unmanned aircraft from flying in public airspace, the flight paths will be limited to military airspace, which is ... Unmanned flights give peek at melting ice
WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- Aircraft flying over Greenland will offer a view of the melting Greenland Ice Sheet and its potential for raising the global sea level, U.S. scientists said.MIT developing a better flight plan for weather forecasting
... t be processed fast enough to alter the flight plan if a storm starts brewing. "The response ... slow," How said. "Today's flight path is based on yesterday's weather."
Ideally, teams of unmanned aircraft ... Highlights of upcoming acoustics meeting -- June 30 to July 4 in Paris, France
... or robust techniques for identifying which species are passing as they migrate. By recording the unique flight calls of birds as they fly by night, researchers can develop migration maps for each ... Want to fly? Don't copy the birds and the bees
... a top of the range military chopper and the humble bumblebee, despite similar flight patterns. In an era in which engineers are increasingly exploiting designs from nature, understanding this ... NASA responds to California wildfire emergency imaging request
... planned for next week. The flights by NASA's unmanned Ikhana aircraft are using a sophisticated Autonomous Modular ... Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Ikhana's onboard sensor ... For toy-like NASA robots in Arctic, ice research is child's play
... ordinary except that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are unmanned, autonomous, toy-size robots called ... Headquarters office located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
"My research ... Robot plane sweeps over UK fields
The first flights have been conducted of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to monitor UK farmland.Scientists to assess Beijing Olympics air pollution control efforts
... Experiment" (CAPMEX) will include a series of flights by specially equipped unmanned aircraft known as autonomous ... August 1. Pre-inspection test flights are scheduled to begin August 9, with the field ... India's lunar mission is new step in Asian space race
... entire nation salutes them."The launch follows unmanned lunar probes from China and Japan last year ... . Nair said the space agency was aiming at a manned flight by 2015. Work on a two-person capsule was ... To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite
... to designing small satellites is control: The smaller the satellite, the harder it is to manage its flight path and attitude, or orientation in space – for example, which directions its instruments ...
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QinetiQ says it has broken unmanned flight record
... built from carbon fiber and powered using paper-thin solar panels has broken the world record for longest-lasting unmanned flight, its manufacturer claimed Sunday....Unmanned aircraft to study Southern California smog and its consequences
... and 12,000 feet. Because of Federal Aviation Administration regulations that prohibit unmanned aircraft from flying in public airspace, the flight paths will be limited to military airspace, which is ...Unmanned flights give peek at melting ice
WASHINGTON, July 16 (UPI) -- Aircraft flying over Greenland will offer a view of the melting Greenland Ice Sheet and its potential for raising the global sea level, U.S. scientists said.MIT developing a better flight plan for weather forecasting
... t be processed fast enough to alter the flight plan if a storm starts brewing. "The response ... slow," How said. "Today's flight path is based on yesterday's weather." Ideally, teams of unmanned aircraft ...Highlights of upcoming acoustics meeting -- June 30 to July 4 in Paris, France
... or robust techniques for identifying which species are passing as they migrate. By recording the unique flight calls of birds as they fly by night, researchers can develop migration maps for each ...Want to fly? Don't copy the birds and the bees
... a top of the range military chopper and the humble bumblebee, despite similar flight patterns. In an era in which engineers are increasingly exploiting designs from nature, understanding this ...NASA responds to California wildfire emergency imaging request
... planned for next week. The flights by NASA's unmanned Ikhana aircraft are using a sophisticated Autonomous Modular ... Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Ikhana's onboard sensor ...For toy-like NASA robots in Arctic, ice research is child's play
... ordinary except that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are unmanned, autonomous, toy-size robots called ... Headquarters office located at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "My research ...Robot plane sweeps over UK fields
The first flights have been conducted of an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to monitor UK farmland.Scientists to assess Beijing Olympics air pollution control efforts
... Experiment" (CAPMEX) will include a series of flights by specially equipped unmanned aircraft known as autonomous ... August 1. Pre-inspection test flights are scheduled to begin August 9, with the field ...India's lunar mission is new step in Asian space race
... entire nation salutes them."The launch follows unmanned lunar probes from China and Japan last year ... . Nair said the space agency was aiming at a manned flight by 2015. Work on a two-person capsule was ...To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite
... to designing small satellites is control: The smaller the satellite, the harder it is to manage its flight path and attitude, or orientation in space – for example, which directions its instruments ...