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The unmanned DC-X technology demonstrator, originally developed by McDonnell Douglas for the Strategic Defense Initiative ( SDI ) program office, was an attempt to build a vehicle that could lead to an SSTO vehicle.
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* McDonnell Douglas DC-X, an unmanned prototype spacecraft
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Their high risk / high payoff technology is aimed at solving the national level problems of protection from biological, chemical and information attack and to provide operational dominance for mobile distributed command and control, combined manned / unmanned warfare, and dynamic, adaptive military planning and execution.
Prior to a manned spaceflight, the Soviets launched several precursor unmanned missions between May 1960 and March 1961, to test and develop the Vostok rocket and Vostok spacecraft technology.
Its goal was to allow allied nations to easily share information obtained from unmanned aircraft through common ground control station technology.
This timeline of artificial satellites and space probes includes unmanned spacecraft including technology demonstrators, observatories, lunar probes, and interplanetary probes.
Vectored thrust in manned and unmanned aircraft is used to surpass the stall limit, thereby giving rise to post-stall technology.
Taranis is a British demonstrator programme for unmanned combat air vehicle ( UCAV ) technology.
The Lockheed Martin X-33 was an unmanned, sub-scale technology demonstrator suborbital spaceplane developed in the 1990s under the U. S. government-funded Space Launch Initiative program.
In the 1950s, test pilots were being killed at the rate of about one a week, but the risks have shrunk to a fraction of that, thanks to the maturation of aircraft technology, better ground-testing and simulation of aircraft performance, and, lately, the use of unmanned aerial vehicles to test experimental aircraft features.
The North American X-10 ( model RTV-A-5 ) was an unmanned technology demonstrator for advanced missile technologies during the 1950s.
The Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) is an informal and voluntary partnership between 34 countries to prevent the proliferation of missile and unmanned aerial vehicle technology capable of carrying a 500 kg payload at least 300 km.
* North American X-10, an unmanned technology demonstrator for advanced missile technologies
The Lockheed X-7 ( dubbed the " Flying Stove Pipe ") was an American unmanned test bed of the 1950s for ramjet engines and missile guidance technology.
ParcAberporth is located near here, and has become a noted centre of excellence in the sectors of defence, aerospace and in particular the developing technology of unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs ).
In 1978, the Society published a starship study called Project Daedalus, which was a detailed feasibility study for a simple unmanned interstellar flyby mission to Barnard's Star using present-day technology and a reasonable extrapolation of near-future capabilities.
: The Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Bapuji Talpade designed an unmanned aircraft called Marutsakthi ( meaning Power of Air ), supposedly based on Vedic technology.
AeroVironment Inc. ( AV ) is a technology company in Monrovia, California, and Simi Valley, California, that is primarily involved in energy systems, electric vehicle systems, and unmanned aerial vehicles ( UAVs ).
As a result military communication is more intense, complicated, and often motivates the development of advanced technology for remote systems such as satellites and aircraft, both manned and unmanned, as well as computers.
In order to ensure that the architecture is applicable to the entire domain of current and future unmanned systems, it is built on the five principles of vehicle platform independence, mission isolation, computer hardware independence, technology independence and operator use independence.
13 DRDO labs came together to showcase their technology including the battle field surveillance radar, models of Agni, Prithvi, Brahmos missiles, Nishant ( unmanned air vehicle ), Lakshya ( pilotless target aircraft ) and missile subsystems.
The Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, space systems, aircraft engines, missiles, homeland and cybersecurity systems, material, and related components, equipment, services, and information technology.
The Aerospace Industries Association represents the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of civil, military, and business aircraft, helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles, space systems, aircraft engines, missiles, homeland and cybersecurity systems, material, and related components, equipment, services, and information technology.
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" The Taranis demonstrator will have an MTOW of about 8000 kilograms and be of a similar size to the BAE Hawk – making it one of the world's largest UAVs – that will be stealthy, fast and be able to deploy a range of munitions over a number of targets and be able to defend itself against manned and other unmanned enemy aircraft.
Lockheed Martin and the U. S. Army launched the HALE-D sub-scale demonstrator on July 27, 2011, demonstrating key technologies critical to the development of unmanned airships.
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A more ambitious, nuclear-powered version was intended for an unmanned Jupiter mission, the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter ( JIMO ), originally planned for launch sometime in the next decade.
The RQ-5 Hunter unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ) was originally intended to serve as the United States Army's Short Range UAV system for division and corps commanders.
* Yellow Submarine, nickname for an unmanned acoustic test vehicle, originally the American submarine USS Menhaden ( SS-377 )
The first unmanned launch was originally planned in April 1967, requiring delivery at the Cape around September 1966.
Suisei ( すいせい ; Japanese for Comet ), originally known as Planet-A, was an unmanned space probe developed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science ( now part of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA ).
All of Tasmania's other major hydro-electric power stations were either originally built to operate unmanned ( standard procedure for new power stations in Tasmania since the 1950s ) or have been refurbished in recent years to enable unmanned operation.
Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems ( JAUS ), formerly known as Joint Architecture for Unmanned Ground Systems ( JAUGS ), was originally an initiative by the United States Department of Defense to develop an open architecture for the domain of unmanned systems.
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; Ka-37 1993: An unmanned coaxial helicopter developed with Daewoo of South Korea initially designed for agricultural tasks.
Further applications for unmanned aircraft can be explored once solutions have been developed for their accommodation within national airspace, an issue currently under discussion by the Federal Aviation Administration.
Bell, teamed with AgustaWestland, is developing the commercial BA609, and the firm has also developed a tiltrotor unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ), the TR918 Eagle Eye.
A new generation of unmanned reconnaissance planes has been developed for imagery and signals intelligence.
In 1877, Enrico Forlanini developed an unmanned helicopter powered by a steam engine.
Several unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs have been developed.
The Black Knight prototype unmanned ground combat vehicle being developed by BAE resembles a tank and makes extensive use of components from the Bradley Combat Systems program to reduce costs and simplify maintenance.
* Automated Transfer Vehicle, unmanned resupply spacecraft developed by the European Space Agency ( ESA )
In the 1930s Britain developed the radio controlled Queen Bee, a remotely controlled unmanned Tiger Moth aircraft for a fleet's gunnery firing practice.
The station was the first to be able to be resupplied by the newly developed unmanned Progress freighters, although they could only dock at the rear port, as the plumbing which allowed the spacecraft to replenish the station's fluids was not available at the front port.
* Hopper, an unmanned, reusable satellite launch system that was developed and ultimately canceled by the ESA in the early 2000s.
Complex 41 later became the launch site for the most powerful unmanned U. S. rocket, the Titan IV, developed by the Air Force.
* Corax ( aircraft ) ( also known as the ' Raven ') is the name of a British experimental unmanned aerial vehicle developed in 2004 by BAE Systems
The Titan III was developed from the Titan II launch vehicle by adding a pair of solid-fueled strap-ons and used by the United States Air Force as an unmanned heavy-lift vehicle.
In truth, the Smalltalk ezboard platform ran for years almost unmanned while Yuku was being developed.
* BAE Mantis, an unmanned air vehicle developed by BAE Systems
* Tu-137 Sputnik: unmanned spaceplane project developed from the Tu-136 Zvezda
To defend against the aggressors, the Solar System Defense Forces developed and deployed the R. A. I. N ( Remote Artificial Intelligence Network ), a remote guidance system for the Antares-xx, an unmanned combat vehicle.
* AeroVironment Wasp III, unmanned aerial vehicle ( UAV ) developed for United States Air Force special forces
* Northrop Grumman Bat, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed byNorthrop Grumman
Mariner Mark II was NASA's planned family of unmanned spacecraft for the exploration of the outer solar system that were to be developed and operated by JPL between 1990 through the year 2010.
The Titan IIIC was the largest unmanned space booster used by the Air Force until the Titan IV was developed in 1988.
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