A potentially revolutionary unmanned pseudo-satellite that runs completely on solar power has just completed its first test flight by reaching the stratosphere over the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
A new transonic truss-braced wing (TTBW) aircraft design is in development, following an announcement from NASA that it has chosen Boeing to lead the design and production of a new full-scale demonstrator aircraft.
Following the successful touchdown of NASA and Boeing’s new CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, we’ll be looking at what vehicles like Starliner may be able to provide to future orbital operations even beyond the ISS.