WASHINGTON — A company with plans to give people a taste of spaceflight by taking them into the stratosphere on balloons successfully tested a key element of their system Feb. 20, in the process ...

This just in: Bin Laden wants to defect, but he needs a new ID and a plane ticket. Just kidding--but should there come a day, there's a miniaturized guided parafoil system that can deliver these items ...

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Late last week, a company came one step closer to sending tourists to the edge of space using ginormous balloons, breaking a record for the world’s highest parafoil flight. Arizona-based World View ...

DARPA’s Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS) research effort recently demonstrated a prototype of a low-cost, fully automated parafoil system designed to extend maritime vessels’ ...

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World View World View will have Voyagers gliding peacefully along the edge of space for a two hour sailing like experience (rendering) If you've always wanted to glimpse Earth from near-space, there's ...

Take a huge oceanic catamaran, stick a hydroelectric turbine underneath it, and hitch it to a 6.5 million-square-foot parafoil flying nearly a mile in the air. That's a Korean research team's new ...

His name was Domina Jalbert. A longtime Woonsocket resident turned Florida retiree, Jalbert is credited with advancing skydiving with his design of a type of steerable chute that could glide: a ...

DARPA aiming to share breakthrough, low-cost technologies to improve launch and retrieval of unmanned aerial systems and maritime situational awareness. DARPA and the U.S. Navy’s Office of Naval ...

Animal Dynamics has partnered with Orbital UAV to explore propulsion solutions for its parafoil-wing Stork-STM UAS. UK-based Animal Dynamics has developed a UAS based on parafoil technology that it ...