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Aerospace Industry

The aerospace industry designs, builds and flies aircraft, spacecraft, satellites, rockets and drones, and the engines, materials and systems behind them.

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The ability to physically simulate gravity has lots of civilian and military benefits, and China’s…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Hypersonic startups are in vogue right now but despite huge advances most are going bankrupt…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the movies all space craft just fly into orbit – that’s Single Stage to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Decades ago humans would try to visualise the outcomes of things in our heads, but…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF American F-22’s are supersonic, China’s new drones will be hypersonic, so just how does a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could launch objects into space without having to use propellant? That’s the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The US is really bad at developing hypersonic vehicles, but it’s hoping to get better…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could glue light together? Using quantum mechanics that’s what DARPA’s doing to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future aircraft will be autonomous and drone-like so China is beating everyone to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A rocket capable of lifting 250 tons into orbit that can be reused time and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day AI will be ably to outfly human pilots in all situations, and that…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Space suits cost billions of dollars to develop and NASA’s old suits have needed a…

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