This narrated video exhibits t/Space's full concept of operations from take-off to landing. The carrier aircraft (VLA), booster (QuickReach 2), and crew vehicle (CXV) are all accurately depicted.
NASA performed a series of high power wireless long distance transmission tests to proof of concept wireless energy transmission through the air. Their test achieved power transmission at better than 75% efficency over distance of a 1 mile and quarter.
The first launch of the Ariane 5 ECA on 11 December 2002 was aborted soon after launch due to a problem with the nozzle of the Vulcain 2 engine. Since then changes have been made to the nozzle and numerous tests carried out by Snecma, the maker of the engine, to ensure that the qualification flight at the beginning of 2005 will be a success.
Promotional video for Transrapid railways technology servicing route between Shanghai and its international airport.
Credits: Transrapid International GmbH & Co. KG
Artist's impression showing the ExoMars rover landing on the surface of the Red Planet. The rover will carry a payload, dubbed Pasteur, and will be equipped with a drilling system that will reach up to two metres below the Martian surface. ExoMars is one of the components of ESA's Aurora Space Exploration Programme.
Credits: ESA - AOES Medialab
ID number: SEMMI99ATME
Paul Allen's SpaceShipOne won the Anasari XPrize in October 2004. SpaceShipOne was powered by Hybrid Rocket technology from SpaceDev. Here you see one of the many ground fire tests that were conducted in the months leading up to those historic spaceflights that established the world's first, commercial astronauts.
Credits: SpaceDev, Inc.
