Aerospace

Satellite-based navigation proved its mettle during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, leading to what some say is an overdependence on “jammable” GPS technology

This simple painting by Christine Rueter will mean volumes for those who remember the Challenger disaster. 

What can you create with 100 drones flying in formation? Intel and Electronica FutureLab partnered to answer that question, with spectacular results

Private spaceflight company will try to land the first stage of its two-stage Falcon 9 rocket on an uncrewed ship in the Pacific

Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: December 25, 1915

Can you stop them from flying it over your house? No one knows, and that is a big problem for the drone industry

Five years after a failed insertion into planet's orbit, Akatsuki tries again

Superpowers are flexing military muscles in orbit, but the U.S. can lead the world away from a planetary disaster

At the “Innovation: An American Imperative” symposium October 20 on Capitol Hill, industry leaders and members of Congress talked about shoring up federal support for basic research and development

The Pentagon hopes to generate more "disruptive" weapons technologies by pursuing closer ties with researchers in Silicon Valley and elsewhere

Commercial travel on supersonic jets never took off because of the sonic boom these aircraft make as they rip through the atmosphere. But NASA's success visualizing the shock waves could lead to advances in jet design that make these ultra-fast aircraft quieter and ultimately commercially viable.