Juneyao Airlines 1st 787-9 Delivery – October 19, 2018
SEATTLE, Oct. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing [NYSE: BA] delivered the first 787-9 Dreamliner for Shanghai-based Juneyao Airlines. The new, super-efficient Dreamliner will also be the first widebody commercial jet operated by a privately-held Chinese airline.
Two missions in one will travel 8.5 billion kilometres through the inner solar system
Kourou, 20 October 2018 – The European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury was successfully launched this morning, Saturday 20 October, at 03:45 am (CET) from the spaceport in Kourou (French Guiana) on an Ariane 5 launcher. The satellite built by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) is now embarking on its long journey of some 8.5 billion kilometres through the inner solar system, reaching our solar system’s innermost planet in seven years.
The Extreme Sailing Series 2018. Act 6. San Diego
Photo credit – Lloyd Images
Team Oman Air took a step towards their Extreme Sailing Series season goal with a strong performance on the opening day of their latest encounter on America’s west coast.
GKN Fokker Services has delivered its 500th Underwater Locator Device (ULD) modification package. The ULD modifications have been supplied to twenty-five customers in twenty countries. The modification package has been developed for a wide range of aircraft including the Airbus A320 Family, A330 & A340, Boeing 737 through 787, Bombardier Q400, Embraer E-Jets and the Fokker 70 and Fokker 100. The GKN Fokker Services’ solution offers a complete package including the engineering bulletin, aircraft documentation, the ULD hardware, installation kit and a tester.
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NASA to Host Briefings, Events for ICON Launch to Study Space Weather
 This illustration depicts NASA’s Ionosphere Connection Explorer (ICON) in space. ICON is scheduled to launch Oct. 26, 2018, on a mission to study the dynamic zone high in the atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above.
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NASA will host a series of media briefings leading up to the Friday, Oct. 26, launch of its Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission to study the dynamic zone high in the atmosphere where terrestrial weather from below meets space weather above.
NASA Invites Media to Northrop Grumman Cygnus Launch from Virginia
 Northrop Grumman personnel load supplies and experiments into the Cygnus cargo spacecraft in the payload processing facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in preparation for the company’s 10th commercial resupply services mission, currently scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 15, 2018.
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 Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket sits in the Horizontal Integration Facility at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility during preparation for the company’s 10th commercial resupply services mission, currently scheduled for no earlier than Nov. 15, 2018.
Credits: Northrop Grumman |
Media accreditation now is open for the launch from Virginia of Northrop Grumman’s 10th commercial resupply services mission to deliver NASA science investigations, supplies and equipment to the International Space Station aboard its Cygnus spacecraft.
