Monday, April 5, 2010

Air Force to launch robotic winged space plane - Yahoo! News

Air Force to launch robotic winged space plane - Yahoo! News: "After a decade of development, the Air Force this month plans to launch a robotic spacecraft resembling a small space shuttle to conduct technology tests in orbit and then glide home to a California runway."

Later, in the article: "The Air Force released only a general description of the mission objectives: testing of guidance, navigation, control, thermal protection and autonomous operation in orbit, re-entry and landing."

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Unmanned Aircraft in Commercial Airspace

Robotics Business Review: "On December 3, 2009, GE Aviation and partner AAI Corp., makers of the Shadow family of tactical unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), successfully demonstrated the ability for an unmanned aircraft to be controlled by a four-dimensional trajectory (4DT) FMS certified by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for operations in the U.S. national airspace system (NAS)."

ICRA'10 Program

ICRA'10 Program available.

Such a huge conference.