Aerospace News & Articles - IEEE Spectrum
5 days ago · The latest developments in aviation, satellites, astrophysics, space flight, and space exploration
Electric Aircraft Motor Gets Superconducting Upgrade - IEEE Spectrum
Jun 26, 2025 · High-temperature superconductors are transforming electric aircraft motors from companies like Hinetics, offering unprecedented power density.
Helium Giants Return: LTA Research Airship Over SF Bay - IEEE Spectrum
May 27, 2025 · The age of airships is reborn! LTA Research's Pathfinder 1, a 124-meter helium giant, soared over San Francisco Bay, marking a new era in sustainable aviation. Funded by Sergey Brin, …
Fly the Hybrid Skies - IEEE Spectrum
Nov 30, 2023 · For this test series, engineers at GE Aerospace assembled two sets of a hybrid-electric system, representing the right- and left-engine sides of an airplane, and simulated the electrical loads ...
The World’s Largest 3D Metal Printer Is Churning Out Rockets
Oct 25, 2019 · In traditional aerospace manufacturing, a design change can require almost a year of retooling and adjustments. Because hardware changes take so long, the avionics department is …
GPS Spoofing Attacks Are Dangerously Misleading Airliners
Dec 29, 2024 · Todd Humphreys is a professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Wireless Networking and Communications Group and the …
Barrier Breaker Is Shaping Aerospace Engineering’s Future
Sep 18, 2024 · From physics to aerospace engineering Harris’s journey into the world of science began under the guidance of his physics teacher at the all-Black Armstrong High School, in Richmond.
Civilian Satellites Descend Into Very Low Earth Orbit
Dec 14, 2023 · The first commercial very low-Earth orbit (VLEO) satellite will probably launch before the end of December, depending on how things go at China Aerospace Science and Industry …
The Truth About Terahertz - IEEE Spectrum
Aug 17, 2012 · UPDATE 5 MARCH 2024: In Terahertz technology, everything old is news again. “Not that much has changed in the past 10 or 15 years,” says Peter H. Siegel. Siegel, an IEEE Life …
MEMS In Space - IEEE Spectrum
Jul 2, 2001 · A MEMS-based digital thruster for attitude control is under development by Aerospace, TRW Inc. (headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio), and the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena.