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DARPA taps Aurora to keep designing heavy cargo seaplane in $8.3M deal
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in February 2023 selected Aurora and General Atomics for the program, officially called the Liberty Lifter Seaplane Wing-in-Ground Effect. DARPA ...
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DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
"The phenomenon is highly repeatable. We discovered an unplanned new technique for identifying objects entering the earth's ...
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DARPA: Weapons of the Future
Photo courtesy of DARPA. That sensor, that three-foot long dart sitting in the mud, would then relay its information upward to an aircraft flying overhead. That aircraft would in turn relay the ...
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Boeing and Lockheed Martin Each Flew an X-Plane in Preparation for NGAD
After the U.S. Air Force selected the F-47, DARPA disclosed that Boeing and Lockheed Martin each built a demonstrator aircraft for NGAD, which first flew in 2019 and 2022. In another bit of ...
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DARPA's X-65 CRANE: Creating the future of aviation with air current-controlled aircraft
DARPA has announced the initiation of construction for the X-65 CRANE aircraft. According to the agency's agreement with Aurora Flight Sciences, a prototype is being developed that will be ...
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DARPA US military Spaceplane XS-1
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has commissioned a vehicle for the US military called XS-1, short for "eXperimental Spaceplane 1." As the aircraft's name suggests ...
The ‘Space Laser’ Wars Have Begun—And America Wants to Be First to Develop the High-Powered Weapons
One of DARPA’s concerns is that Russia has allegedly developed a nuclear space-based, anti-satellite weapon that may be capable of blinding hundreds of satellites.
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DARPA’s crazy plane design could allow for vertical takeoffs
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has helped develop a lot of ...
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DARPA Tried Using the Earth's Atmosphere as a Giant Sensor and Detected Something Interesting
While trying to determine if it could use the entire Earth's atmosphere as a massive sensor, the US military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) made a highly unusual detection.
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DARPA Requests Plans for "Large Bio-Mechanical Space Structures"
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas like flying aircraft carriers or massive streetlights on the Moon ...
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Sikorsky Details Successful ‘Full Mission Profile’ Demos With Rotor Blown Wing UAS Concept
DARPA in May 2024 selected six companies to continue onto the risk reduction and component testing phase for its Advanced Aircraft Infrastructure-Less Launch and Recovery (ANCILLARY) program ...