Archives: Year In Review Article - Page 4 - Aerospace America

New designs and technologies shaping the future of aviation and space exploration

Low and slow to high and fast marks flight tests

Advances in high-speed optical diagnostics help characterize airflows from subsonic to hypersonic speeds

Flight milestones and lessons learned from X-plane programs

Extracting oxygen from Martian air and growing proteins, neurons in microgravity

Advancements made toward long-term thriving human communities in spaceAdvancements made toward long-term thriving human communities in space

Variety grows and performance improves in space electric propulsion

Space tethers focus on deorbit and debris mitigation

Experiments to use space resources make great strides

Human spaceflights and science missions lead dynamic year

737 MAX flying again, progress in aircraft flight testing and much activity on Mars

Digital avionics guide accomplishments in aeronautics and astronautics

Launch of Perseverance rover caps 2020 in space robotics

Flight tests and commitment to research mark hypersonics progress

Probabilistic methods gain traction for designing complex systems

Promising technologies from plasmas, lasers, directed energy

Novel designs and NASA’s moon-to-Mars goals inspire next generation

Radioisotope and solar-powered missions to Mars, moon, GEO

Designing the world’s largest wind turbine

Spitzer telescope endures, while Opportunity’s fate is pending

Recognizing NASA’s 60th anniversary, World War I centennial

Programs encourage carbon-emission reductions

Commercial launch companies and NASA chart successes

Space geeks and others bask in solar eclipse

Mars, Jupiter and the human factor

Hypersonics changing the world

Testing the waters under the sea, on a volcano