Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau and Airbus, has begun chauffering the Bay Area’s elite.
View More Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass trafficCategory: Airbus
Seraphim attracts the UK’s Ministry of Defence to its SpaceTech accelerator
In the US the links between private sector technology and the defense industry are long and well known. And in the realm of startups, DARPA, has long fostered new technologies such as those around drones. But despite the world-class defense sector in the UK, historically speaking, it has not reached out quite so overtly to […]
View More Seraphim attracts the UK’s Ministry of Defence to its SpaceTech acceleratorThis space harpoon could be a solution to our growing space junk problem
The RemoveDEBRIS mission has successfully tested a harpoon that was designed to capture space junk in orbit. This marks the second successful attempt for the research team. In September 2018, they deployed a net that wrapped itself around an orbiting …
View More This space harpoon could be a solution to our growing space junk problemDeploy the space harpoon
Watch out, starwhales.
View More Deploy the space harpoonFacebook is reportedly testing solar-powered internet drones again — this time with Airbus
Facebook last year grounded its ambitious plan to develop a solar-powered drone to beam internet across the world, but the company isn’t done with the concept, it seems. The social media giant is working with aeronautics giant Airbus to test drones in Australia, according to a new report from Germany’s NetzPolitik. Using a request under […]
View More Facebook is reportedly testing solar-powered internet drones again — this time with Airbus2018 ushered in ‘a potential space renaissance’
The aerospace industry took flight with ambitious civilian and military projects over the course of 2018, and private investors took notice. Rockets are flying to the far side of the moon. Entrepreneurs are creating new propulsion technologies to take rockets deeper into space and to make flying on Earth more electric. Finally, plans are afoot from […]
View More 2018 ushered in ‘a potential space renaissance’Watch Audi, Italdesign and Airbus design and test an autonomous flying taxi
Germany automaker Audi, Airbus and Italdesign presented Tuesday a scaled-down version of its vision of the future: a drone that can pluck the cab off of an autonomous electric vehicle and then fly off to its intended destination. The companies showed off the flying taxi concept Tuesday during Drone Week in Amsterdam. You can watch […]
View More Watch Audi, Italdesign and Airbus design and test an autonomous flying taxiElectric flying taxi service Lilium poaches key hires from Audi, Airbus
Lilium, the developer of a new, electric, vertical take-off and landing vehicle for a novel flying taxi service, has poached some pretty big former executives from Airbus and Audi as it builds out its technology and gets ready to bring its service to market. Mirko Reuter, the former head of automated driving at Audi, has […]
View More Electric flying taxi service Lilium poaches key hires from Audi, AirbusDescartes Labs launches its geospatial analysis platform
Descartes Labs, a New Mexico-based geospatial analytics startup, today announced that its platform is now out of beta. The well-funded company already allowed businesses to analyze satellite imagery it pulls in from NASA and ESA and build predictive models based on this data, but starting today, it is adding both weather data to its library, as […]
View More Descartes Labs launches its geospatial analysis platformUberAIR to take flight with help from UT Austin and U.S. Army Research Labs
After three months of discussions, Uber Elevate has selected The University of Texas at Austin as its partner alongside the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to develop new rotor technology for vehicles that the company will use in its uberAIR flying taxi network. The news is the latest step in Uber’s plans to get demonstration flights […]
View More UberAIR to take flight with help from UT Austin and U.S. Army Research LabsBoeing’s new R&D center focuses on autonomous flight
Flying cars are BS. But there is actually a chance that we’re on the cusp of a revolution in general aviation as startups and major players like Airbus are looking to modern technology to allow more people to take flight without having to first learn how to steer a Cessna 152 down a short runway […]
View More Boeing’s new R&D center focuses on autonomous flightAirbus’ whale-sized plane made an oversized maiden flight
That’s not a bird or a plane, it’s a … whale.
This is what it looks like when a massive oversized plane takes to the sky: Airbus’ aptly named BelugaXL plane took off on a test flight Thursday morning at the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in France. …