Sentences with phrase «aerospace projects»

These engineers are also involved in planning and preparing specifications and cost estimates for aerospace projects.

Not exact matches

Consider that under the proposed deal multinational aerospace giant Airbus will take a 50.01 per cent stake in Bombardier's C Series project and move some of the production to a plant in Alabama.

We have people with intelligence backgrounds, and the projects in aerospace — and in science — are often linked to intelligence.

Cheers actor John Ratzenberger offers advice for future entrepreneurs, and shares recent projects including Elite Aerospace Group and thegiftbox.com.

For example, a Boeing engineer said during a 2010 aerospace meeting that project was intended to evaluate the spacecraft's autonomous navigation systems, according to Air & Space Magazine.

The company's aerospace group has about $ 2 billion tied up in development projects, mostly on the CSeries and Learjet lines, says Stonecap Securities analyst Scott Rattee.

Elon Musk — CEO of Tesla and SpaceX — has been pretty busy disrupting the automotive and aerospace industries of late, but it looks like he's making time for a new project.

Boeing and Honeywell now produce thousands of 3D - printed aerospace parts for their their assorted defense projects.

In the first 3 quarters of 2017 alone, NIST's Manufacturing Extension Project resulted in creation or retention of 3,929 aerospace jobs, over $ 235 million in new and retained sales, over $ 137 million in new investment, and $ 104 million in cost savings.

Google will reportedly enlist Titan Aerospace to make drones for its Project Loon, which aims to bring the Internet to everyone.

Project Titan, the satellite drone unit born from the acquisition of Titan Aerospace last year, sits under the Access and Energy subsidiary of Alphabet.

Prior to his career in executive search, Mr. Cummings was a consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Dallas, where he worked on a wide variety of projects with clients in the aerospace & defense, consumer finance, telecommunications, oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, healthcare and education industries.

According to the report, the military's Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program ran from 2002 - 2012 and was a sort of «pet project» for then - Senate majority leader Harry Reid.

Our aerospace division has been involved in every major aircraft development project including stealth technology.

He has bachelor's and master's degrees in Aerospace Engineering and worked as a research engineer on the NASA Space Station project before entering teaching.

In fact, an entire industry of nimble space - vehicle ventures has sprung up in recent years, including SpaceX, headed by PayPal founder Elon Musk; Armadillo Aerospace, started by computer - game developer John Carmack; Blue Origin, a pet project of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; and SpaceDev, which came up with the novel rocket engine that powered SpaceShipOne.

In addition to the water - based propulsion, the other core technology to be demonstrated by the team is optical navigation, said project manager Kyle Doyle, a doctoral student in aerospace engineering.

Yet the aerospace giants have so much clout with Congress that NASA often has no choice but to send big projects their way, Pike says.

This project,» Tele - Education in Aerospace control and Mechatronics,» allows students from both universities to use equipment for interesting laboratory experiments in the areas of mechatronics and aerospace control across the Atlantic via the Aerospace control and Mechatronics,» allows students from both universities to use equipment for interesting laboratory experiments in the areas of mechatronics and aerospace control across the Atlantic via the aerospace control across the Atlantic via the Internet.

There could be fish,» says Bill Stone, head engineer on the VALKYRIE project and founder of Stone Aerospace in Texas.

«This demonstration is a breakthrough for future deep space exploration,» said SEXTANT Project Manager Jason Mitchell, an aerospace technologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

UP Aerospace is the spaceport's most active lessee, but state officials, who are now grappling with a projected $ 450 million shortfall for 2012, are pinning their investment hopes on the facility's other, much bigger, and far more celebrated client.

Data from WISE may generate proposals for telescope time on Herschel for more detailed follow - up observations, says Paul Goldsmith, project scientist for Herschel at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Goldsmith's JPL colleagues will manage ground operations for WISE; Utah State University's Space Dynamics Laboratory in North Logan, Utah, designed and built its instrumentation, and Ball Aerospace in Boulder, Colo., built the spacecraft itself.)

Saturday night, ESA mission managers received a precious 300 data packets from Philae in a short 85 - second - long transmission — bare - bones information about the health of the lander, discovered Ulamec, Philae's project manager at the German Aerospace Center near Cologne.

«A long - term vision of the project is to make flying accessible to more people,» explains aerospace engineer Tim Fricke, who heads the project at TUM.

Wilaiwan Chanmanee, postdoctoral research associate in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Mohammad Fakrul Islam, graduate research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UTA, also participated in the project.

«We are the first to use both light and heat to synthesize liquid hydrocarbons in a single stage reactor from carbon dioxide and water,» said Brian Dennis, UTA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and co-principal investigator of the project.

The University of Alberta team raised much of the money through a combination of crowdfunding campaigns, space agency grants, university support and donations from aerospace companies, all typical ways teams currently fund these satellite projects.

To test this theory - about - a-theory, project FOKUS funded by the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) today launched a high - altitude research rocket to send various types of clocks into space and back again.

«Landing on a snowball is quite a challenge,» says Berndt Feuerbacher, a project manager with the German Aerospace Centre in Cologne, «but it's much simpler than landing on Mars.»

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) measures such emission lines with high precision within the US - German SOFIA project.

For instance, a simple CubeSat built by students or hobbyists might cost roughly $ 50,000 whereas more advanced projects from professional aerospace companies can range from $ 250,000 up to $ 2 million.

He's working on the projects with Alric Rothmayer, an Iowa State professor of aerospace engineering; Kai Zhang, a doctoral student; and Waldman.

«Once you have robots that cooperate, you can do all sorts of things,» said Kilian Weinberger, associate professor of computer science, who is collaborating on the project with Silvia Ferrari, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Mark Campbell, professor of mechanical engineering.

Later on November 10 the team plans to switch Philae on and start warming it up for Wednesday's landing, said Stephan Ulamec, the lander's project manager at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne.

This time, he carried out his research project in the labs of aerospace, defense, and security information systems company Thales Research and Technology France in Palaiseau, with one of his TELECOM ParisTech professors, Jean - Paul Pocholle.

But for Elizabeth Austin, the project's chief scientist, there's another thrill: the glider will carry scientific instruments for climate, aerospace and stratospheric research that can not be done using other means.

But Fossett's death the following year in a light - aircraft accident set the project back until July 2014, when European aerospace group Airbus became a major sponsor and contributed its research expertise.

The project has been carried out in close partnership between the researchers from the School of Engineering and four companies: Thule Group, Kongsberg Automotive, GKN Aerospace Systems and Axelent Engineering.

«We need to have projects that have material properties that can meet the necessary requirements, that can be repeatable, and that can be identical from machine to machine, day to day — especially in demanding industries such as aerospace and defense.»

Google also recently acquired Titan Aerospace, a company that develops ultra-lightweight, solar - powered drones that could replace the balloons from Project Loon altogether.

Cryogenic Experts of Canoga Park, California, which has worked on NASA's aerospace plane project, has made a tank that will hold LNG at a temperature of -161 °C, and be «essentially crashproof», according to Chrysler.

However, other projects, like the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy — «an airplane observatory developed through a partnership between NASA and the German Aerospace Center» — would likely be put on ice.

«Take the example of aerodynamics: one of the simulation cornerstones in the European aerospace sector, the software TAU, was ported to the GPI platform in a project with the German Aerospace Centaerospace sector, the software TAU, was ported to the GPI platform in a project with the German Aerospace CentAerospace Center (DLR).

New Mexico State University (NMSU) has a long history of research in space and aerospace beginning with NMSU student teams film projects on the first V - 2 flights at White Sands Proving Ground in 1946.

Five - year Pentagon program investigating UFOs revealed: A New York Times story published in December detailed the existence of the $ 22 million Defense Intelligence Agency project called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program.

This booklet provides information about a number of exciting space - related careers like astrochemist, project scientist, aerospace engineer, nutritionist, graphic designer, space lawyer, and of course astronaut!

He studied Aerospace Science Engineering at Tuskegee University and has participated in Project PoSSUM and as a crew member at the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station in Utah.

SEATTLE — Washington State University had seven industry - collaboration projects selected recently for funding by the Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation.

JCATI awarded $ 1.27 million in its second round of grant awards in 2013 to16 research projects with the goal to solve technological questions relevant to the Washington aerospace industry.