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CHICAGO, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A modified Boeing (NYSE: BA) Blended Wing Body research aircraft - designated the X-48C - flew for the first time today at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California. The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft took off at 7:56 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time and climbed to an altitude of 5,500 feet before landing 9 minutes later. The X-48C is a scale model of a heavy-lift, subsonic vehicle that forgoes the conventional...
EDWARDS AFB, Calif., Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The remotely piloted X-48C aircraft successfully flew for the first time Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The aircraft, designed by The Boeing Co. and built by Cranfield Aerospace Limited of the United Kingdom, is flying again in partnership with NASA. The new X-48C model, which was formerly the X-48B Blended Wing Body aircraft,...
MUNDELEIN, Ill., July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Z Trim Holdings, Inc. (OTC: ZTHO), creator of environmentally-friendly agricultural functional ingredients, today announced the addition of G. Stephen "Steve" Finley, former Chief Financial Officer of Baker Hughes, Inc., to its already impressive Advisory Board. Mr. Finley will assist the management team with strategic planning and business development initiatives involving the Company's brand new industrial ingredients division, which...
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd Announcement Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) announced Thursday the successful separation from the Soyuz launcher and subsequent operation of mission-critical systems onboard the exactView-1 satellite, which was built by the Company under contract to prime contractor COM DEV Canada for exactEarth. exactView-1 separated from the Soyuz launch vehicle’s Fregat upper stage in low Earth orbit approximately 2 1/2 hours after launch. SSTL has since...
DALLAS, July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- VectorNav Technologies, a pioneering company in embedded navigation solutions, announced today the release of the VN-200, a high-accuracy GPS-Aided Inertial Navigation System (GPS/INS) on a surface-mount chip the size of a postage stamp. Combining an advanced GPS module with the latest in MEMS inertial and pressure sensor technology, the patent-pending VN-200 provides a coupled position, velocity and attitude solution that is robust to a wide...
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The European Space Agency (ESA) announced on Tuesday that it has retired its GIOVE-B experimental navigation satellite. The satellite initiated a thruster firing yesterday, raising GIOVE-B's orbit by about 18 miles, taking it steps closer to a satellite graveyard up in orbit. More thruster firings will take place in the next three weeks, so that by mid-August the experimental satellite will be 372 miles above its original orbit....
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ:TRMB) today announced that the Trimble® GCSFlex(TM) Grade Control System for Excavators now offers highly accurate GPS machine guidance via Wi-Fi®. By serving GPS corrections over a Wi-Fi connection from a local base station, Trimble has eliminated the need for a radio network on the construction site and made it easier than ever to deploy GPS for a broad range of excavation work. Trimble introduced GCSFlex Grade...
WALLOPS ISLAND, Va., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A large inflatable heat shield developed by NASA's Space Technology Program has successfully survived a trip through Earth's atmosphere while travelling at hypersonic speeds up to 7,600 mph. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The Inflatable Reentry Vehicle Experiment (IRVE-3) was launched by sounding rocket at 7:01 a.m. Monday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va. The...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online A probe that is being touted as the "highest detection performance commercial Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite ever built" was successfully launched into a sun-synchronous polar orbit on Sunday, the UK firm that designed and assembled the craft has announced. In a July 22 statement, Guilford-based Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) confirmed that the exactView-1 satellite lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome...
SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) will hold a conference call on Wed., Aug. 1, 2012 at 1:30 p.m. PDT to review its second quarter 2012 results. The call will be broadcast live on the Web at www.trimble.com. Investors without Internet access may dial into the call at (800) 528-9198 (U.S.) or (702) 928-6633 (international). About Trimble Trimble applies technology to make field and mobile workers in businesses and government significantly more...
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The boomerang is a flying tool, made of wood or carbon fiber-reinforced plastic, with a curved shape that is often used as a weapon or for sport. They have also been made of bones and come in many different shapes and sizes depending on their geographic or tribal origins and their intended function. The most commonly recognizable type is the returning boomerang which travels in an elliptical path and returns to its point of origin. The returning boomerang has lopsided wings in order to create...
