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• 'Significant Amount' of Water Found on Moon

  Created: Friday, 13 November 2009 13:22 Author:

  'Significant Amount' of Water Found on Moon By Andrea ThompsonSenior Writerposted: 13 November 200912:16 p.m. ET  It's official: There's water ice on the moon, and lots of it. When melted, the water could potentially be used to drink or to extract hydro...

• New Picture of Earth

  Created: Thursday, 12 November 2009 22:18 Author:

  New Picture of Earth ...

• Japan plans giant solar power station in space

  Created: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 02:05 Author:

  Japan plans giant solar power station in spaceJapan’s space agency is planning to construct a solar power station in space and use it to beam energy down to Earth using lasers. By Tom ChiversPublished: 11:21AM GMT 10 Nov 2009The Japan Aerospace Explora...

• Apple's 13-Inch Pro Now Every Bit as Impressive as Its Big Bros

  Created: Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:42 Author:

   Apple's 13-Inch Pro Now Every Bit as Impressive as Its Big BrosThe littlest MacBook Pro finally gets all the features of its larger brethren, making it pound for pound one of the most impressive laptops on the market today. For starters, the aluminum un...

• GA Shipments Plunge By Half In Nine Months

  Created: Monday, 09 November 2009 22:07 Author:

  GA Shipments Plunge By Half In Nine MonthsNov 9, 2009 General aviation shipments were down 46.8 percent and billings have fallen 23.5 percent in the first nine months of the year, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association reported last week. GA plane...

• Airlines Face Unionization Rule Changes

  Created: Monday, 09 November 2009 00:26 Author:

  Airlines Face Unionization Rule ChangesNov 8, 2009  Jennifer Michels/Washington  The National Mediation Board (NMB) is considering changing its interpretation of a 75-year-old U.S. labor law governing airline and rail union elections, a politically ...

• FireFox 3.6 Beta 1

  Created: Monday, 02 November 2009 00:39 Author:

   FireFox 3.6 Beta 1 Those keen to try out Mozilla's latest browser--and its new process to update the software more frequently--now can try Firefox 3.6 beta 1. Among the features in the new version, according to Mike Beltzner, Mozilla's director of Fire...

• NASA Poised for 2nd Try to Launch Landmark Rocket Test

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 01:24 Author:

   NASA Poised for 2nd Try to Launch Landmark Rocket Test By Clara MoskowitzStaff Writerposted: 28 October 200903:32 am ET CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA will try a second time to launch its experimental Ares I-X test rocket Wednesday, after cloudy weather a...

• Google Similar Images Search Now Available

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 00:58 Author:

  Google Similar Images Search Now AvailableGoogle on Tuesday announced that its similar-images feature is now a standard part of the company's image search technology.The feature was originally launched in late April, alongside the visual-news timeline, as...

• Hanvey: SATSair Shut Down, But Not Out

  Created: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 00:45 Author:

  Hanvey: SATSair Shut Down, But Not Out Oct 27, 2009 By George Larson    SATSair President and CEO Stephan Hanvey said Oct. 27 that although the company has ceased flying operations as of Oct. 23, it has not shut down. "We know our business model wo...

• Rare NASA Photo Release of New Rocket.

  Created: Tuesday, 27 October 2009 00:14 Author:

    Rare NASA Photo Release of New Rocket.  NASA's space shuttle Atlantis awaits liftoff from Launch Pad 39A (right) at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., while the Ares I-X rocket is poised for its own blast off from from Launch Pad 39B, in the ba...

• Piper To Launch Garmin G3000 Touchscreen Cockpit

  Created: Monday, 26 October 2009 21:43 Author:

  Piper To Launch Garmin G3000 Touchscreen CockpitOct 23, 2009 Kerry LynchPiper Aircraft is launching Garmin's new G3000 avionics package on the single-engine Piper Jet, the companies announced. Garmin unveiled the G3000 during this week's National Business...

• SWA On Track For RNP By End Of 2010

  Created: Monday, 26 October 2009 21:12 Author:

  SWA On Track For RNP By End Of 2010By Andrew Compart       Southwest has equipped 66% of its aircraft for Required Navigation Performance and is on track to have all of its pilots complete their RNP training by December 2010...

• NBAA Convention Reflects Downturn, Optimism

  Created: Monday, 26 October 2009 21:05 Author:

  NBAA Convention Reflects Downturn, OptimismOct 26, 2009 By Kerry Lynch         The National Business Aviation Association 62nd Annual Meeting and Convention last week in Orlando, Fla., showed signs of the industry's dist...

• White House Panel Backs Commercial Alternatives to NASA's New Rocket

  Created: Sunday, 25 October 2009 01:15 Author:

  White House Panel Backs Commercial Alternatives to NASA's New Rocket By Tariq MalikManaging Editorposted: 22 October 200903:49 pm ETThis story was updated at 5:03 p.m.The independent blue-ribbon panel that reviewed NASA's plans to replace its space shuttl...

• NASA Clears New Ares I-x Rocket For Tuesday Launch Test

  Created: Sunday, 25 October 2009 01:02 Author:

  NASA Clears New Ares I-x Rocket For Tuesday Launch Test By Clara MoskowitzStaff Writerposted: 23 October 200905:32 pm ETCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A prototype version of NASA's newest rocket is ready for its planned Tuesday launch, mission managers said tod...

• New Record For Most Distant Galaxy Cluster

  Created: Friday, 23 October 2009 23:01 Author:

    New Record For Most Distant Galaxy Cluster By SPACE.com staffposted: 22 October 200901:53 pm ETThe most distant known galaxy cluster has been discovered with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.The cluster, known as JKCS041, is located about 10.2 billion...

• Windows 7 is here!

  Created: Friday, 23 October 2009 04:29 Author:

  Windows 7 is here! New York Debut (Photo: Cnet.com) Microsoft is rolling out Windows 7 around the globe Thursday, and we're bringing you live updates from New York, as CEO Steve Ballmer introduces Microsoft's newest operating system at a special...

• Delta Sees Net Loss, Early Recovery Signs

  Created: Friday, 23 October 2009 04:15 Author:

  Delta Sees Net Loss, Early Recovery SignsOct 22, 2009 Adrian Schofield adrian_schofield@aviationweek.com  Delta is the latest U.S. carrier to report a profit excluding special items, as well as an operating profit, and is echoing industry optimism t...

• NTSB Probing Northwest Crew Overflight

  Created: Friday, 23 October 2009 03:59 Author:

  NTSB Probing Northwest Crew OverflightOct 22, 2009 Frances Fiorino fiorino@aviationweek.com  The NTSB is examining the flight recorders from a Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 (N03274) for clues as to why the flight lost radio contact with ATC with fo...