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Helios Prototype to attempt flight at 100,000 feet altitude

Earth is clearly discernible. The air is so thin–only 1.4 percent of the density at sea level–it is incapable of supporting life. It is also incapable of supporting sustained horizontal flight of an ...
SpaceRef

NASA’s Helios Comes Down in the Pacific

NASA’s unmanned Helios aircraft came down in the Pacific Ocean off Kaua’i, Hawaii during its second flight from Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) today. No firm cause is yet known although a power ...
Aviation Week

Tests show viability of Helios energy storage system

Tests of a regenerative energy storage system that will enable the unmanned, solar-powered Helios prototype aircraft to fly at night have been successfully completed, NASA announced. The tests, ...
SpaceNews

NASA Names New Dryden Flight Research Center Director

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden has named David D. McBride director of the agency’s Dryden Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. “David has done a terrific job as ...
Aviation Week

NASA Dryden to propose follow-on to ERAST UAV program

NASA Dryden Flight Research Center will be proposing a follow-on program to the Environmental Research Aircraft and Sensor Technology (ERAST) program, the unmanned aerial vehicle development work that ...