Solar flight - make it so

(Image: J. Revillard/Solar Impuse) A solar-powered aircraft has this week been plying the skies around Moffett Field in San Francisco, California, as its inventors rehearse for their next ambitious move: a coast-to-coast sunshine-fuelled flight ...

Scanadu (Moffett Field, CA), a contestant in the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize, has announced that its Scanadu Scout vital sign monitor will include new features and increased computational power over the previous prototype. The company also debuted a ...

Event Format: Lecture Location: NASA Research Park, Moffett Field, CA US From: Centerwide Announcement Date: May 20, 2013 TO: Resident Staff FROM: Michael Marlaire, Director, NASA Research Park Office SUBJECT: NRP Exploration Lecture Series: " ," ...

The Solar Impulse plane takes off from Moffett Field in Mountain View, California, on May 3, 2013. The first manned aircraft that can fly day and night powered only by solar energy has set a new distance record after completing the second leg of a ...

IRA, Texas - When the Ira Bulldogs meet the Stamford Bulldogs on Thursday at Moffett field in Snyder, they will be considered underdogs for maybe the first time all season. Ira's underdog status may seem validated, after all Stamford has reached 3 ...

Put on your spacesuits space cadets! Get ready for a visit to NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., on August 15 and Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, on October 24. Many of us became engineers because of the NASA space program ...

NewswireToday- /newswire/ - Moffett Field, CA, United States, 2013/05/20 - A Silicon-Valley based startup is looking to advance vertical flight and has unveiled an original STOVL aircraft configuration that performs all forms of take-off and landing ...

Walter De Brouwer, 55, sees his new company, Scanadu, as the pinnacle of his life's work in the technology field. He hopes the medical scanning device will help the world take care of itself better.Walter De Brouwer.(Photo: Kim Kulish, for USA ...

With a wingspan the size of a Boeing Co. 747 jumbo jet, a spindly solar-powered aircraft took to the skies from Moffett Federal Airfield, near San Francisco, on a pioneering flight across the country. The goal is not speed, because its traveling a ...