aerospace
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Hypersonic Plane From Venus Aerospace Will Travel to the Edge of Space
Earlier this week, Venus Aerospace, a Houston-based aeronautics startup, released renderings for Stargazer — an incredibly fast high-altitude vehicle it’s hoping to develop.
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Dizzying Video Shows What It’s Like to Get Shot Out of a Centrifuge at 1,609 km/h
California startup SpinLaunch recently performed the eighth demonstration of its suborbital mass accelerator, but unlike in previous tests, this flight vehicle was equipped with an onboard camera, providing an unprecedented view of the high-altitude launch.
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This Bird-Inspired Tower Fan Uses Flapping Wings
At this point, building a flying vehicle isn’t terribly hard. Aviation enthusiasts can buy DIY kits and build themselves a plane that can easily and safely take to the skies. But a flying vehicle that can take off vertically without jet engines or propellers? That’s the aspiration of a company called Volerian, which thinks flapping…
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Flying Cars to be Tested in Regional NSW
A small town in regional New South Wales has been chosen as the test site for a fleet of electric flying cars. The NSW government has announced it is giving a $950,000 grant to AMSL Aero, an aerospace company, to test its Vertical TakeOff and Landing (eVTOL) vehicles at a new testing facility being built…