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The future of the Aerospace Industry
The aerospace industry designs, builds and flies aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, rockets and drones, and the engines, materials and systems behind them.
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- India taps space startups to produce bodyguard satellite systemsSpace
- Australia launches the first 3D printed Mach 8 Hypersonic Missile from US soilIndustry and manufacturing
- New Chinese ghost satellites see your face from spaceSecurity and privacy
- Chinese state media fawns over a colossal 120,000 ton orbital space carrierSecurity and privacy
- Austria just launched a quantum computer into space in historic firstComputing
- GE Aerospace builds out Mach 5 wind tunnels to test weapons and aircraftSecurity and privacy
- China unveils low cost fighter jet to disrupt US military export dominanceSecurity and privacy
- China’s cross-modal Hunter Killer submarine launched drones break coverSecurity and privacy
- World first as Ukrainian sea drone shoots down advanced Russian SU-30 fighter jetSecurity and privacy
- US Space Force approves plans for satellite carriers in spaceSpace
- New US Replicator drones are getting tested in UkraineRobotics
- New AI tech lets soldiers pilot 100 spy drones all at onceSecurity and privacy
- China unveils its Mach 4 drone prototype to challenge the USTransport and mobility
- Black Hornet 4 micro drone packs heavy recon duty into a tiny packageSecurity and privacy
- US Navy uses AI to train lasers to hit hypersonic missiles fasterSecurity and privacy
- China re-iterates plans to build a Three Gorges Dam in spaceEarth and energy
- This new 3D printed Smart Tattoo reads patients mindsBiotech and enhanced humans
- US military's next gen fighter jet helmet lets pilots control everything with thoughtBiotech and enhanced humans
- China's new Ram-Rotor Detonation engine pushes beyond Mach 5Transport and mobility
- Two Chinese Sixth Gen fighter jets tear across the skies in ChinaSecurity and privacy
- This startup is scaling brain cell powered biological computers to challenge Nvidia in AIComputing
- China unveils the Mother of all drones at Chinese airshowRobotics
- Northrup pitches AWACS without a plane to the US GovernmentSecurity and privacy
- UK conducts first flights using GPS free quantum navigation techSecurity and privacy
- China's new Hypergravity facility bests the US to simulate 1,900GEarth and energy
- This revolutionary new hypersonic drone engine has no moving partsTransport and mobility
- World's first SSTO Aerospike aircraft to fly later this monthSpace
- Digital twins are helping companies solve great challengesVirtual worlds
- China's AI used an clever tactic to win a simulated Mach 11 dogfightSecurity and privacy
- China successfully trials first reusable satellites to recover scientific payloads
- A new propellantless thruster just made enough thrust to overcome Earths gravityEarth and energy
- US hypersonic vehicle achieves Mach 5 in first test flightTransport and mobility
- DARPA's revolutionary quantum laser is unlike anything anyone's seen beforeEarth and energy
- China is building the world's first dedicated drone aircraft carrierSecurity and privacy
- SpaceX's fourth Starship splashes down in the Gulf of MexicoTransport and mobility
- The world's first dogfight between an AI and a human pilot has taken placeRobotics
- SpaceX unveils their new high tech space suit for Mars colonistsSpace
- A ground breaking Aerospike SSTO prototype crashes before engine testEarth and energy
- Hypersonic weapons key strength makes them vulnerableSecurity and privacy
- Episci develops AI to detect hypersonic missiles from spaceSecurity and privacy
- China's newest atomic clock will run error free for 7.2 Billion yearsConnected society
- China is smashing the US in 37 out of 44 key emerging technology areasOpinion
- H2 Clipper wants to use robot swarms to build giant airships
- This Chinese hypersonic drone beats the F-22 in aerodynamic efficiencySecurity and privacy
- DARPA gets green light to build first of a kind X65 CRANE jetTransport and mobility
- China's T-Flight hyperloop train obliterates 387mph in first tests
- Google's DeepMind AI just invented 380,000 new compoundsIndustry and manufacturing
- In a world first AI beats humans at a physical sportRobotics
- Astronauts are soon going to be able to talk to their spacecraft via chatbotsAI and intelligence
- Paralysis used to be for life, but it isn't any longer, and this and other breakthroughs are just the start of a new era of medicine.Transport and mobility
- France enters the hypersonic missile race with first VMAX launchIndustry and manufacturing
- This new American satellite jamming system is a game changerSpace
- GE resurrects the turbo prop to cut aircraft fuel consumption by 20 percentTransport and mobility
- A new European project is trying to make a digital twin of your brainVirtual worlds
- China's Mach 30 hypersonic wind tunnel harnesses the power of explosionsSecurity and privacy
- NASA's hypersonic Rotating Detonation Engine passes first crucial testsTransport and mobility
- Virtual reality helps bell Helicopter design new aircraft 90 percent fasterVirtual worlds
- The USAF's Project VENOM is turning old F-16's into drone wingmenSecurity and privacy
- Companies are creating space based energy grids that beam electricity to anywhere EarthEarth and energy
- China's space agency tests a first of a kind Stirling EngineEarth and energy
- In a first an AI pilot flew a real uncrewed F16 in simulated aerial dog fightsSecurity and privacy
- China allegedly has found a way to make its hypersonic weapons twice as potentSecurity and privacy
- This hybrid Chinese drone soars like a bird and swims like a fishRobotics
- Hermeus's first of a kind Chimera engine switches from supersonic to hypersonicTransport and mobility
- DARPA's unveils its revolutionary CRANE X-Plane with no moving partsTransport and mobility
- Jetopera's bladeless eVTOL aircraft targets 0.8 MachTransport and mobility
- This new self-healing semiconductor can withstand the radiation of a hundred SunsComputing
- NASA successfully tests the world's first inflatable heat shieldSpace
- NASA successfully tests the world's first inflatable heat shieldSpace
- Researchers reverse engineered SpaceX's satellite signals to create a new GPS serviceConnected society
- NASA trials 3D printing electronics in low gravity in nod to future space coloniesIndustry and manufacturing
- Scientists have created a new smart material that's more AI than materialAI and intelligence
- Researchers tap nanotubes and BNNT's to create next gen hypersonic materialsIndustry and manufacturing
- China's hybrid supersonic weapon flies like a missile and swims like a torpedoSecurity and privacy
- This Mach 5 jet from Hermeus could be the first to have a 3D printed bodyIndustry and manufacturing
- Blue Origin's Orbital Reef space station gets the green light from NASASpace
- Fighter pilots take the simulators into battle to fight augmented reality foesVirtual worlds
- NASA's Martian autonomous cybersecurity defence test is a resounding successSecurity and privacy
- China touts an AI that can design its own hypersonic weaponsSecurity and privacy
- AI and 6G will form the bedrock of China's first hypersonic missile defence systemSecurity and privacy
- 6G takes on a new roll helping China create better hypersonic weapons systemsSecurity and privacy
- A new ultra lightweight hydrogen fuel tank could make jet fuel obsoleteEarth and energy
- This new super alloy from NASA could revolutionise hypersonic flightIndustry and manufacturing
- Russia becomes the worlds first country to use hypersonic weapons in war timeSecurity and privacy
- Blockchain could help autonomous swarms of drones and robots communicate securelyConnected society
- A new DARPA project is experimenting with living factories in spaceIndustry and manufacturing
- NASA and partners team up to create robotic self-assembling space structuresIndustry and manufacturing
- Unmanned military drones team up with manned fighter jets during BAE trialSecurity and privacy
- NASA wants to be the first to launch a rocket from another planet by 2026Space
- Neumann Space successfully turns space junk into space fuel for satellitesEarth and energy
- From flying aircraft carriers to submarine motherships, the US military draws up plansSecurity and privacy
- The first gas station in space is now operationalEarth and energy
- China plays catch up as AI trounces PLA's best fighter pilots in simulated combatSecurity and privacy
- Elon Musk's Starlink space internet system brings 500Mbps to anywhere on EarthConnected society
- Radian unveils plans for revolutionary Single Stage To Orbit spaceplaneSpace
- Blue Origin and Jeff Bezos announce plans to create the first private space stationSpace
- Orbital Assembly plans to open first space hotel in 2027Space
- If satellites can withstand 10,000G then Spintronics can fling them into spaceSpace
- UK's Heathrow airport to start operating flying taxis from 2025Transport and mobility
- Architects unveil plans for Dubai's Mars Science City and colonies on MarsSpace
- China's hypersonic missile circled Earth at 21,000mph and smashed its targetSecurity and privacy
- These inflatable houses could be home to future MartiansSpace
- Scientists are trying to control lightning with a giant laser lightning rodEarth and energy
- China lays the groundwork to build giant spacecraft that are miles longSpace
- US military launches cube sats to test new anti-hypersonic weapons techSecurity and privacy
- Meet Arrow the world's first and only supersonic droneSecurity and privacy
- Living pharmacies within our bodies could help cure jet lag and diseaseBiotech and enhanced humans
- USAF pumps m into Quarterhorse their future 4,000mph autonomous aircraftTransport and mobility
- China is developing hypersonic UCAV swarms to overcome missile defensesSecurity and privacy
- Jeff Bezos becomes the first billionaire to travel to actual spaceSpace
- The Pentagon wants to test a space based particle beam weapon by 2023Earth and energy
- SpaceX say they'll be able to provide internet anywhere on Earth by SeptemberConnected society
- Sir Richard Branson becomes the first billionaire to almost reach spaceSpace
- Rocket delivery anywhere in an hour gets included in latest US military budgetTransport and mobility
- The world's first satellite that can be re-programmed in orbit heads to final assemblySpace
- United bets on a supersonic future with Billion Boom orderTransport and mobility
- Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will travel to the ISS in DecemberSpace
- China's Mach 30 wind tunnel could put them decades ahead in hypersonic technologyEarth and energy
- An autonomous US Navy Stingray drone successfully refuelled an F-18 in mid flightRobotics
- Deepfakes could soon spread to affect satellite and GIS imagery researchers findAI and intelligence
- SpaceX plans first orbital Starship test from Texas to HawaiiTransport and mobility
- NASA experiments with self-healing robots made from ice for deep space explorationRobotics
- Japanese billionaire looks for eight people to join him on a trip around the MoonSpace
- Amazingly Elon Musks massive Starship rocket is carbon neutralSpace
- NASA's Perseverance rover makes oxygen on Mars in historic firstEarth and energy
- SpaceX's SN15 Starship prototype finally sticks the landingSpace
- NASA students show off the world's first 3D printed rocket padIndustry and manufacturing
- US Pentagon successfully tests solar power concept to beam energy to Earth from spaceEarth and energy
- The world's first active duty military AI co-pilot just got its next missionAI and intelligence
- First of a kind satellite attempts to maintain low earth orbit without any propellantEarth and energy
- Rocket fuel making algae farms on Mars could bring future colonists back homeEarth and energy
- World's largest drone that will launch satellites from mid air finally unveiledSpace
- World first as AI officially joins the crew onboard a US military jetAI and intelligence
- SpaceX's latest Starship SN8 test was a huge explosive successSpace
- Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin outlines plans for first deliveries to the Moon in 2023Space
- USAF experiments with neurotraining to cut pilot training times in halfBiotech and enhanced humans
- British Army shows off tiny bug drone that flies at 50mph and blows doors offRobotics
- Revolutionary rocket that eats itself for fuel gets UK government fundingSpace
- DARPA selects Gryphon to build world's first ever nuclear rocket engineEarth and energy
- US Air Force announces plans to update fighter jet software in mid flightSecurity and privacy
- Air Force One to go hypersonic after USAF signs contract with US engine makerTransport and mobility
- 3D printed mini-satellites head into space for first trialsIndustry and manufacturing
- NASA trials beaming messages into space using lasersSpace
- Cyborg locusts get called up to sniff out bombs after scientists make breakthroughSecurity and privacy
- AI fighter pilot obliterates human USAF pilot in simulated dogfightsAI and intelligence
- ESA machine turns moondust into oxygen and metal to help first moon colonists surviveIndustry and manufacturing
- Massive AI powered robots are 3D printing entire rockets in the USIndustry and manufacturing
- SpaceX's Mars Starship aces first hop testsSpace
- A US startup just built a giant centrifuge to fling rockets into spaceTransport and mobility
- Florida start up gears up to take tourists into space – by balloonSpace
- Space Adventures sets world’s first space tourist space walk for 2023Space
- SpaceX to build floating spaceports for rockets to the Moon and Mars, and hypersonic Earth travelTransport and mobility
- US military starts testing solar cells in orbit that beam electricity back to EarthEarth and energy
- US military signs on to start testing Elon Musk’s StarLink communications networkConnected society
- USAF ramps up AI drone wingman concept, preps for 2023 launchSecurity and privacy
- US topguns will fight AI drones in 2021 as era of autonomous warfare nearsAI and intelligence
- US Navy's biofuel powered Tomahawk missiles open door to sustainable rocket travelEarth and energy
- SpaceX successfully launches first crew into orbit, ushers in new era of spaceflightSpace
- Emission free flying a step closer after Chinese plasma jet breakthroughTransport and mobility
- Eight360 unveil the "Spinning ball of Death," a new crazy immersive VR simulatorVirtual worlds
- A satellite just serviced another satellite in space for the first time everRobotics
- The US Space Force shows off its first offensive space weaponSecurity and privacy
- Our Algorithmic Society, the deadly consequences of unpredictable codeAI and intelligence
- An AI just designed then 3D printed a completely new form of rocket engineIndustry and manufacturing
- Space Adventures signs an agreement with SpaceX to take tourists into spaceTransport and mobility
- DARPA announces "Counter-Hypersonics" program to counter the catastrophic threat from hypersonic weaponsSecurity and privacy
- DARPA closes in on its ambitions to build the worlds first flying aircraft carriersRobotics
- NASA unveils plans to grow homes on Mars and the Moon out of fungiIndustry and manufacturing
- Russia becomes the first country in the world to deploy hypersonic weaponsSecurity and privacy
- IBM's floating space robot just got an emotional upgradeRobotics
- Baltimore becomes the first US city to be watched from the air 24/7Security and privacy
- US startup uses an old NASA recipe to create “meat” from thin airIndustry and manufacturing
- An inflatable humanoid robot destined for space secures NASA fundingRobotics
- Russia’s Navy could be the first to field hypersonic weaponsSecurity and privacy
- Hypersonic flight a step closer after revolutionary British hypersonic engine aces testsTransport and mobility
- NASA designs shape shifting robots to explore other planetsRobotics
- USAF announces development of a new Mach 5 hypersonic missileSecurity and privacy
- US military report recommends giving AI autonomous authority to launch nuclear weaponsSecurity and privacy
- First spacecraft piloted by a humanoid robot docks with ISSSpace
- Bioengineering breakthrough paves the way for tomorrow’s superplantsEarth and energy
- NASA tests it's newest artificial gravity system in an office on EarthSpace
- NASA steps into the unknown with project to 3D print spacecraft in orbitIndustry and manufacturing
- JAXA and Toyota team up to create a Moon buggy with a 10,000km range
- Watch DARPA’s smart EXACTO bullets change path mid flightSecurity and privacy
- Revolutionary air breathing rocket engine gets green light for testsTransport and mobility
- NASA's green rocket fuel is less harmful to the environment, and can be FedEx'dEarth and energy
- Scientists have created a living material that has the three signs of lifeIndustry and manufacturing
- Satellite launch kick starts Elon Musk’s quest to connect everyone on EarthConnected society
- Jeff Bezos lays out his vision to take millions of people to the stars and beyondSpace
- China announces plans to build a Moonbase in the next decadeSpace
- This is the first ever photo of a black holeSpace
- Pentagon demands satellites that can dodge incoming fire like an NBA all starSpace
- NASA to test revolutionary X-Ray communications system on the ISS soonSpace
- Elon Musk's SpaceX capsule lands successfully in crucial step toward human spaceflightSpace
- Future EV's with 16,000km range and space elevators made possible with new Chinese Nano-CableIndustry and manufacturing
- Scientists have created the blackest material ever, and it's great for gamingIndustry and manufacturing
- Luxury space hotel preps for launch in 2021Space
- NASA’s ISS robot companion CIMON gets caught copping an attitudeRobotics
- Boeing unveil their stunning hypersonic space plane conceptTransport and mobility
- Here's how NASA plans to build on Mars and the MoonSpace
- Elon Musk unveils the future of urban transport, and living on MarsTransport and mobility
- Virgin Galactic soars into space and the record books with succesful test flightTransport and mobility
- Russia unveils new nuclear powered spacecraft destined for MarsSpace
- After four year wait Cape Canaveral gets its license to launch commercial space planesSpace
- Pentagon seriously considers using rockets to move soldiers and equipment around the globeSpace
- Scientists jumped out of a plane to create a new wonder materialIndustry and manufacturing
- Record breaking solar powered aircraft stays aloft for 26 days straightEarth and energy
- A creative AI designed NASA's next spider-like interplanetary landerAI and intelligence
- Worldwide surveillance, Hawkeye satellites use radio to track illegal shippingSecurity and privacy
- The UK’s new Quantum Compass makes GPS satellites obsoleteTransport and mobility
- Virgin Orbit strapped a rocket to their 747 to democratise access to spaceSpace
- US Navy puts AI brains into its 3D printers to make them "creative and intelligent"Industry and manufacturing
- NASA starts assembling the spacecraft that will save Earth from an asteroid strikeSpace
- Neural implants let military pilots control three jets at once with their mindsBiotech and enhanced humans
- World first as Japanese rovers relay incredible photos from distant ancient asteroid
- BAE is developing a "wearable" cockpit for fighter jetsVirtual worlds
- Scientists have created an ultrasound patch to monitor your vital healthIndustry and manufacturing
- Windows are the perfect lens-less cameras for AI and VR headsetsAI and intelligence
- World's first space elevator hitches a ride to the ISS to begin first trialsSpace
- MIT created a nanobot spray that gives dumb objects superpowersIndustry and manufacturing
- Step inside the SpaceX capsule that will take astronauts to the ISSSpace
- China tests its cutting edge hypersonic aircraft that "rides its own shockwaves"Security and privacy
- New autophage rocket devours itself for fuelSpace
- Hackers discover a way to turn satellites into microwave weaponsSecurity and privacy
- Book tickets into space for 0,000, Blue Origin preps for take offSpace
- World's first commercial solar aircraft aims for the StratosphereTransport and mobility
- Jeff bezos announces target to build the world's first Moon base in 2023Space
- 3D printed Graphene Aerogel, stronger than steel and 99.8% lighter
- Fantastic self-healing material regenerates after suffering "catastrophic damage"
- Scientists turn a Drangonfly into a controllable, living drone
- European Space Agency’s new Ion thruster runs on thin air
- Google's Lunar XPrize will continue, without Google
- IBM's "flying brain" Watson heads into space
- Vodafone and Nokia partner to create a 4G network on the Moon
- China's new "Ghost Imaging" satellites will make US stealth obsolete
- SpaceX launches the world's most powerful rocket into space
- NASA's tests its new interplanetary space internet system, sends a selfie to the ISS
- m Google Lunar XPrize moonshot competition ends without a winner
- SpaceX's Falcon Heavy assumes launch position ready for maiden flight
- The US Military just put out a contract for the world's first flying aircraft carriers
- DeepMind unveils the world’s first test to assess dangerous AI’s and algorithms
- Scientists have a plan to seed life throughout the universe
- MIT's new AI is helping scientists design new, futuristic materials
- Revolutionary new single stage Aerospike rocket preps for take off
- The F-35 could be the first US aircraft to be outfitted with laser weapons
- NASA’s new ion thruster smashes all the records
- Lockheed shoots drones out of the sky with it's newest laser weapon
- Kalashnikov show off their first ever hoverbike
- Lockheed show off their orbiting Mars station concept
- Musk unveils his plan to put a million people on Mars starting 2024
- World's first GPS Spoofing attack puts 20 ships 32km inland at an airport
- Lockheed's new camera puts a space telescope in your pocket
- New all seeing cameras will revolutionise computer vision as we know it
- NASA 4D prints new materials and mulls printing self-assembling space stations
- Plasma jet engines get ready for real world trials
- Boeing teams up with America's biggest ship builder to build autonomous subs
- Lockheed confirms it's building the unmanned hypersonic SR-72 aircraft
- Travel to Mars for 0,000 on Elon Musk's SpaceX Express
- Maiden flight of SpaceX rocket that will take tourists to the Moon lifts off in three months
- Elbit's persistent surveillance drone can watch entire cities in real time
- NASA gets ready to trial SEXTANT, its galactic navigation technology
- Watch: SpaceX sticks another great landing
- Space adventurers could be the first true 'Designer humans'
- The first Mars colony will be 3D printed from Martian dust
- Futurist on TV: Elon Musk and the Future of Transportation, Discovery Channel
- Researchers have captured the first images of a Dark Matter web
- A theoretical physicist just found a way for us to reach Light Speed
- The USAF turned an F-16 fighter jet into the world's most advanced drone
- Revolutionary new single stage Aerospike powered rocket set for 2018 launch
- Russia gets ready to test its new, 'unbeatable' hypersonic missile system
- SpaceX’s first Falcon Heavy launch will attempt upper stage recovery
- SpaceX makes history launching its first recycled rocket
- Explorers wanted: American government tells NASA to get humanity to Mars
- Jeff Bezos announces plans to create the world's first Moon delivery service
- Researchers have created a Dark Matter map of the universe
- Elon Musk announced SpaceX is sending two private citizens to the Moon
- NASA's possible-impossible plasma engine roars into life
- Scientists 3D print an Eagle eye camera that's smaller than a human hair
- Researchers hack classified air gapped systems using drones and LED's
- NASA just discovered seven Earth like planets
- Massive new satellite network can watch everyone on Earth
- Scientists get ready to take the world's first photo of a Black Hole
- Dubai heads to Mars, announces 2117 colonisation plans
- Google RAISR sharpens photos and gives you super vision
- F-35 pilots will team with AI to control swarms of drones in mid flight
- NASA wants to turn asteroids into spacecraft
- The Moon beckons as five Lunar XPRIZE teams make it to the final round
- Scientists in New York have created a working tractor beam
- Australia hails the end of passports as it rolls out biometrics at airports
- World's tightest atomic knot will help scientists create new super materials
- When satellites fall from the sky DARPA's new ocean network will still work
- Watch the F/A-18 release swarms of autonomous drones into the sky
- NASA unveils its new Mars habitat concept
- Velodyne's new miniature LiDAR means many more autonomous things
- Two Google XPRIZE teams join forces to land on the Moon
- New heat resistant material shatters records
- New nanomaterial exploits radiation to create more powerful nuclear reactors
- Audi puts its new Quattro Lunar Rover through its paces
- Mining the Moon, Moon Express sets 2017 launch date
- Lasers on fighter jets by 2020, the USAF and Northrop Grumman get cosy
- The Pentagon announces more investment and a new anti-satellite warfare strategy
- Drones get new eyes in the sky with Echodynes miniature radar
- The US Marines want to build a fully autonomous F-35
- Urban Aero shows off its first fully autonomous flying taxi
- New heat resistant material breakthrough gives hypersonic flight a boost
- US Navy stands up the worlds first fully autonomous drone squadron
- US Navy's future supersonic submarines will command swarms of autonomous drones
- ISS SPHERE drones learn to see and fly around in space all by themselves
- New US Navy launcher fires swarms of autonomous drones into the sky
- DARPA’s hack proof code protects military systems from hackers
- Scientists can now see molecules and objects clearer than ever before
- Scientists petition the UN to create a sovereign space nation
- Skydio's autonomous drone takes to the skies
- World first as Lockheeds autonomous submarine launches an autonomous drone
- US to turn its aircraft carriers into floating drone factories
- SpaceX founder Elon Musk plans to get humans to Mars by 2022
- DARPA launches dragnet program to monitor drones in cities
- Drone forensics is now a thing
- The US and China are developing supersonic submarines
- New era of hypersonic warfare forces the Pentagon to rethink its strategy
- New airborne city wide surveillance systems watch your every move
- China launches worlds first unhackable Quantum communications satellite
- The solar system just got its own internet
- The first private moon landing gets the green light
- ESA lays out plans to build a village on the Moon
- Caltech shows off self healing microchips
- DARPA pushes autonomous Mach 20 drone program underground
- Bomb sniffing UAV's can thwart terrorist bombs
- America launches the worlds first fully autonomous submarine hunter
- Self assembling space stations and the end of flat pack
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