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NASA Reveal 9 Companies Contacted For Moon Landing Bids
NASA Reveal 9 Companies Contacted For Moon Landing Bids If you’ve been paying attention to the NASA news, you’ll have noticed that the last week has been pretty busy for the company. We saw, earlier this week, their InSight probe land on the surface of Mars and just yesterday, reports…
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Lockheed Martin Develops Record Setting 60-kW Laser Weapon for US Army
A little over a year after Lockheed Martin unveiled their ATHENA 30-kW mobile laser weapon, the defense company has announced that their latest efforts have almost doubled that to 58-kW last month but are delivering an even more powerful 60-kW to the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces…
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NASA Begins Testing X-Plane with Quiet Supersonic Technology
Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NASA to develop a Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) passenger plane which has now begun wind-tunnel testing their preliminary design at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland. The initial testing of the Quiet Supersonic Technology X-plane is conducted on a nine percent scale model inside…
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Would You Live in a Habitat From NASA?
When it comes to space travel, we are constantly looking at new engines and ways to reach the stars with a little more time for ourselves. The problem is, have we really looked at what we are going to do when we get there? NASA has started looking at this…
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Lockheed Martin’s VR School Bus Drives You Across Mars
If there is one thing we need to make sure that we keep innovating and reaching for that next step in technology, it is to get the next generation of potential scientists, engineers, and inventors interested in STEM careers. This is something that Lockheed Martin believe very firmly, with the…
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Lockheed Martin Wants To Demonstrate Hypersonic Planes
When you think fast you might think of a sports car or even a fighter jet? For years, the SR-71 has been the symbol of supersonic flight. Lockheed martin hopes to take this a step further with plans to demonstrate in the near future hypersonic planes. 50 years after the…
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F-35 Delayed Until 2019 Due to Software Issues
Problems with the F-35 are nothing new, with countless issues continuing to plague the jet fighter throughout its development. Now, as if to make matters worse, it has suffered another delay in its rollout, with the US House Armed Services Committee being informed that the new multirole jet won’t be…
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F-35 Radar Glitch Requires Pilots to Turn it Off and On Again!
At this point in its development, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is almost infamous due to the countless problems that have caused huge delays and taking it vastly over budget. Now another problem has been found with the software used for the F-35’s radar. The solution to this problem? Just…
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NASA to Spend $20 Million on New Supersonic X-Plane
In a bid to develop a plane that could fly over land at supersonic speeds without disturbing those on the ground, NASA has awarded $20 million to Lockheed Martin to develop the concept. This craft will be known as the “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft and will be part of…
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U.S. Navy Testing Pilotless Helicopters
The Naval Research Labratory has been testing pilotless helicopters for some time now. In fact, they’ve been using them in Afghanistan already but due to their inefficiencies in operating the technology it isn’t being used to its full potential. Marines primarily use the unmanned helicopters for the delivery of items…
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Plans For A New Spy Plane In The Works, Codenamed SR-72
Throughout most part of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force turned to the SR-71 Blackbird for many of its most important spy missions. The jet-black jet could fly at more than three times the speed of sound and at altitudes of 85,000 feet, faster and higher than anything adversaries…
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