Rapid Fire: 2010-09-17

Rapid Fire: 2010-09-17

* EADS Astrium will market SpaceX’s Falcon 1e rockets as a lower-cost launch option for European customer to put small payloads into Low Earth Orbit. Agreement runs through to 2015. * The German Air Force is grounding all 55 of its Eurofighters, made by EADS,...
Rapid Fire: 2010-09-17

DARPA’s Vulture: What Goes Up, Needn’t Come Down

Initial Boeing concept(click to view full) Phase 2 contract for Boeing/ QinetiQ’s SolarEagle. (Sept 15/10) In April 2008, 3 teams received Phase 1 contracts to begin developing develop a radical new aircraft, under a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...