Tag: U.S. Navy
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Varda Successfully Reenters W-5 Capsule, Marks First Fully Integrated Mission
Varda Space Industries said it has successfully completed the reentry and recovery of its W-5 capsule, marking the first time the company has flown a mission using its own vertically integrated satellite bus from launch through atmospheric return. The capsule, which carried a payload for the U.S. Navy, landed within a designated recovery zone at…
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Wave Motion wins $1.3M award to work on prototype jet-gun launcher for U.S. Navy
Casey Dunn, Finn van Donkelaar and James Penna show off Wave Motion Launch’s Big Iron demonstration jet-gun launcher. (Wave Motion Photo) Everett, Wash.-based Wave Motion Launch Corp. has been awarded $1.3 million to support the venture’s efforts to develop a barrel-less launcher technology that could eventually be used to send payloads to space. Wave Motion…
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U.S. Navy officially releases UFO videos, years after they were unofficially leaked
The Defense Department has authorized the release of three unclassified Navy videos, captured in 2004 and 2015, that purport to show unidentified flying objects — or to use the Pentagon’s preferred term, unidentified aerial phenomena. UFO fans have long known about these videos, known by the filenames FLIR, GOFAST and GIMBAL, thanks in part to…