Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology .

Early Aug. 6, NASA's Curiosity rover—the centerpiece of a $2.5 billion flagship mission—raced across the Martian sky, undergoing a half-dozen rapid-fire changes in configuration before an untried “Sky Crane” landing system paused just above the terrain to lower the one-metric-ton robot geologist to the surface ...

Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology .

From new forms of massively parallel computing to the next generation of mini-satellites, countless innovations critical to future aerospace and defense systems will emerge not from the multibillion-dollar prime contractors, but from small technology companies worldwide ...

Source: Aviation Week & Space Technology .

German researchers are pleased so far with the results of their summer space launch of a rocket-boosted hypersonic demonstrator, which reached 11 times the speed of sound, even though it is now clear they will not be able to recover the vehicle payload from its resting place at the bottom of the Greenland Sea ...