Aerospace

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5 | April 21, 2010 3:59am | By Christina Hernandez

The aerospace, agriculture and petrochemical industries showed a meteoric rise in innovation in 2010, but the computer and automotive industries stay in the lead, according to a new report.

January 12, 2011 12:16pm | By Andrew Nusca

Internet giant, aerospace firm and renowned venture capitalists pop up together in the quest for energy's Holy Grail.

18 | February 15, 2013 5:25am | By Mark Halper

FedEx will open up its SenseAware service -- which uses sensors to track a shipment in real time -- to all industries.

January 23, 2012 9:55am | By Andrew Nusca

In the wake of the tornado that tore through central Oklahoma, a team of students have ramped up the design of UAVs to track them.

May 24, 2013 10:50am | By Charlie Osborne

Jerry Larson builds the rockets and hopes to create a marketplace for commercial cargo service. Will Laron's company, Up Aerospace, be the US Airways for cargo or will NASA continue to hold down...

March 25, 2010 10:27am | By Boonsri Dickinson

Big week for NASA last week. The Kepler space telescope, the most prolific exoplanet detector ever, is paralyzed. Meanwhile, the Dream Chaser spacecraft is prepping for its first test flights.

May 22, 2013 3:44pm | By Janet Fang

'This is the first time since we've been a spacefaring nation that we're facing a real gap.'

4 | March 8, 2011 5:53pm | By Joe McKendrick

MIT researchers have devised a technique that could make carbon fiber hundreds of times stronger than steel, at only a fraction of the weight.

5 | May 21, 2013 10:15pm | By Janet Fang

A new alliance aims to make in-flight WiFi connectivity available globally to travelers.

April 20, 2012 2:19am | By Charlie Osborne

Will black carbon cause the death of space tourism before it has taken off?

10 | May 16, 2013 10:49am | By Charlie Osborne

Kill distance on a rocket-powered plane from German engineers.

4 | January 25, 2013 6:33am | By Mark Halper

Now the Igor I. Sikorsky prize is worth $250,000. Check out three designs that are getting close.

2 | May 13, 2013 12:09pm | By Janet Fang

In the wake of the grounding of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, Qatar Airways is considering other purchase options.

May 8, 2013 1:12am | By Charlie Osborne

Commercial space race about to heat up: a private cargo spacecraft is ready to serve as a resupply line to the International Space Station.

May 17, 2012 10:27pm | By Joe McKendrick

The scales of the Arapaima fish can resist a pack of hungry piranhas. Now, researchers want to borrow the idea for body armor, fuel cells, insulation and aerospace.

February 9, 2012 8:44am | By Andrew Nusca

Lockheed Martin has awarded a $110 million contract to aerospace and defense contractor ATK to produce composite components for the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.

May 3, 2011 8:22am | By Andrew Nusca

Most retired aircraft are parked in the desert, but with thousands of them coming into retirement in the next two decades, Bombardier has started recycling its planes and researching more...

4 | March 2, 2011 2:00am | By Melanie D.G. Kaplan

The company, whose shareholders include the Chinese government, has taken its first major orders--and plans to duke it out with aerospace giants on its own turf.

30 | November 15, 2010 2:30pm | By John Herrman

NASA has awarded $475,000 to Armadillo Aerospace and Masten Space Systems as part if its Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research Program (CRuSR) program designed to develop reusable edge-of-space...

August 31, 2010 5:27am | By Larry Dignan