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Deimos-1 was launched into a 686-kilometre (426 mi) Sun-synchronous low Earth orbit. [6] The launch was conducted by ISC Kosmotras, who used a Dnepr carrier rocket, with DubaiSat-1 as the primary payload. Deimos-1, along with the UK-DMC 2, Nanosat 1B, AprizeSat-3 and AprizeSat-4
The four-and-a-half-hour flight took the Orion spacecraft on two orbits of Earth. Peak altitude was approximately 5,800 kilometres (3,600 mi). The high altitude allowed the spacecraft to reach reentry speeds of up to 8.9 km/s (20,000 mph), which exposed the heat shield to temperatures up to around 2,200 °C (4,000 °F).
The first phase of the Hypersonic Weapon System development was won by three bidders in 2003, each receiving a $1.2 to $1.5 million contract for hypersonic vehicle development: [11] Andrews Space Inc., Seattle, Wash. Lockheed Martin Corp., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co., Palmdale, Calif. Northrop Grumman Corp., Air Combat Systems, El Segundo ...
Lockheed Martin has landed a $1 billion government contract -- and it needn't build a single fighter plane to fulfill it. On Monday, Lockheed Martin announced that the U.S. Department of the ...
Lockheed Martin and D-Wave will collaborate to realize the benefits of a computing platform based upon a quantum annealing processor, as applied to some of Lockheed Martin's most challenging computation problems. Lockheed Martin established a multi-year contract that includes one system, maintenance, and services.
Deimos-One is an American spaceflight technology development company working on an AI powered, autonomous UAV rocket system to move payloads to space. [2] As of January 2021, the company has completed a successful prototype test flight, reaching an altitude of 30 km (19 mi).
Desert Hawk being launched with a bungee cord. The Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk is a miniature UAV used for base perimeter protection. It was designed by Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works for the United States Air Force Force Protection Airborne Surveillance System (FPASS) Program on a quick-reaction contract issued late in the winter of 2002, with the first system delivered in the early summer.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Army helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Washington was being operated on a training flight by a "fairly experienced crew" with night-vision goggles ...