At this point, sending probes to Mars has almost become routine, but the ESCAPADE mission is showing that there's always a ...

NOTE TO EDITORS AND NEWS DIRECTORS: News media are invited to cover a dedication ceremony for a new Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Applications Center located in Bldg. 18 at the corner of Bushnell and ...

NASA has modified Boeing's Starliner contract following the 2024 test flight. Find out how this impacts future ISS missions ...

observing system. That gap is filled by the use of traditional aircraft and limited by the endurance of the onboard pilot. UAVs give researchers a persistent but deployable observing discuss the ...

NASA has sent over three drones for a test in California's Death Valley, and it aims to solve the issues of Ingenuity for a ...

NASA recently completed a series of flight-tests in which two unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) autonomously collaborated to avoid obstacles in flight. The project, known as the Networked UAV Teaming ...

NASA always had backup plans. The unmanned Shuttle-C could have launched massive payloads while the National Aerospace Plane ...

Alpha Unmanned Systems (Alpha) in Madrid, Spain, has been developing and building helicopter UAVs for 10 years and has successfully employed them with defense departments in 10 countries. Its UAVs are ...

Engineers at NASA’s Langley Research Center are developing a concept for UAVS and drones that would allow them to get up close and personal with Mars. Image source: Pixabay. Earlier this fall, the ...

In an effort to demonstrate that unmanned aircraft can be integrated into civil airspace, NASA is planning a competition next year that will challenge contestants to complete a series of missions ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) achieved a major milestone in August with the release of operational rules for the routine use of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). However, the ...

Last month, NASA announced that it had selected six “wild” aeronautics projects that it will test over the next two years. If the ideas are proven to be feasible—the ultimate goal—we could see ...