Austrian Felix Baumgartner has broken the record for the highest ever skydive by jumping out of a balloon 128,000ft (24 miles, 39km) above New Mexico.Unofficially, the Austrian jumped from 128,097ft (24.2 miles; 39km). He fell for four minutes and 19 seconds, reaching a speed of 706mph
Military
David Rothkopf, a former Clinton administration official has written an article on the Foreign Policy website stating that U.S. and Israel have decided on a limited surgical strike on the alleged Iranian enrichment facilities. He quotes a close inside source as saying that the most likely action to be
Testing
A small green aircraft flew in the blue sky over the Halim Perdanakusuma airbase in East Jakarta on Thursday morning. “The plane is designed to carry out surveillance. Given its noise levels, however, its targets would easily become aware of its position,” Research and Technology Minister Gusti M. Hatta said
Military
The leader of the Shia militant movement Hezbollah in Lebanon said his group is responsible for launching a UAS into Israel last week, and Iranians made it.Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said on the movement's television channel that the aircraft flew over "sensitive sites" in Israel. "
Business
Oculus Systems Ltd is pleased to announce that it has become the UK re-seller for the NANO UAS, Huginn X-1 (manufactured by Sky-Watch in Denmark). A lightweight and agile platform with intuitive controls the X-1 can be used for a wide variety of tasks in both
Testing
A shipboard-capable system designed to support both the launch and recovery of the Scan Eagle successfully completed final demonstration flight testing Sept. 27 at a testing range in eastern Oregon. Sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the Compact Launch and Recovery System (CLRE) will provide a small-
The US Navy is confident that laser cannons will move out of science fiction and onto the decks of its surface ships by the end of the decade. Its futurists at the Office of Naval Research still have visions of scalable laser blasts that can fry an incoming missile at
Business
Boeing and Korean Air Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD) will broaden their cooperative relationship to include rotorcraft, fixed-wing aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, and military aircraft maintenance and support through a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on Oct. 4. The two companies have a longstanding relationship. KAL-ASD is a supplier
Trimble has introduced a new version of its Inpho software products for aerial photogrammetry and laser scanning data production. Inpho 5.5 includes UAS data processing and LPMaster, a new software product specifically designed for the production of Trimble Harrier aerial LiDAR and imaging data. The announcement was made today
Commercial
ING Engineering in Ottawa, Ontario, is a robotic aviation systems operator with UAS of different sizes for hire. “We’re a charter aviation company. We fly payloads, not people,” said ING founder and CEO Ian Glenn. The ING portfolio of platforms now ranges from theAeryon Scout to the company’s
Business
Europe's two biggest aerospace firms will go back to the drawing board to find new strategies after Germany stymied the world's biggest arms and aviation company merger. Britain's BAE Systems, which earns nearly half its revenue selling arms to the Pentagon, could end up
SPECIM, Spectral Imaging, Ltd., a global supplier of Hyperspectral Instrumentation, has announced the release of AisaFENIX, a robust and compact spectral imager for the most demanding field and airborne installations. The most valuable feature of AisaFENIX is its ability to capture the highest quality hyperspectral data over VNIR, NIR, and