Aerospace

Dr. Paddy Neumann, chief scientist and founder of Neumann Space and creator of the Neumann Drive ion rocket, studied aerospace engineering and physics at the University of Sydney - image courtesy of Neumann Space.

Revolutionary ion rocket can be fuelled by space junk and get to “Mars and back on one tank”

The huge spar was designed by Cranfield MSc students to test the capability of the new WAAM machine - image courtesy of Cranfield - metal 3D printed part

The largest metal 3D printed part ever made?

Introducing the Mine Kafon Drone, an airborne drone for detecting land mines - image courtesy of Mine Kafon Foundation and Kickstarter

Innovation

De-mining drones aim to rid the world of land mines within 10 years

Drones

India will buy 36 Dassault Rafale jets. Image courtesy of Wikipedia - Tim Felce

Dassault signs joint partnership for Indian aerospace manufacturing

Airbus-has-produced-more-than-1000-flight-parts-on-its-Stratasys-FDM-3D-Production-Systems-for-use-in-the-first-of-type-A350-XWB

Airbus to bring all its operations under one wing

The SpaceX ITS is one possible way humans could reach Mars in coming years. Image courtesy of SpaceX.

SpaceX unveils Mars colonization plans

Aircraft are a major source of global CO2 pollution. Image courtesy of Flickr - fdecomite

Countries set to implement aviation emissions cap

A CGI rendering of Tiangong-1. Image courtesy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

Chinese Tiangong-1 space lab crashing back to Earth

A model of the Tiangong-2 space lab docked with Shenzhou-11. Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

China launches Tiangong-2 space laboratory

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin, was successfully launched on Sept. 8 on its mission to the Bennu Asteroid - image courtesy of Lockheed Martin and NASA

NASA launches seven-year mission to retrieve asteroid sample

The Boeing Blended Wing Body (BWB) in a Nasa wind tunnel. Image courtesy of Nasa.

Boeing tests Blended Wing Body with NASA