Articles by Carl Chance

The U.S. Government agency DARPA is charged with making huge breakthroughs in tech to benefit national security. Director, Arati Prabhakar describes and even demos some technologies, including some surprising and powerful new neurotechnology. Meanwhile, she […]

An ion thruster or ion drive is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. It created thrust by accelerating ‘cations’ by utilizing electricity.

This is a brief and very interesting overview of the AFRL. For those viewers nationally as well as locally, this video was chosen for play due to the fact that Wichita is the Air Capital […]

Great design is timeless, but the future always beckons. Opening new doors to new possibilities. Empowering us to imagine new solutions to the world’s most complex challenges. Lockheed Martin.

What’s up at SpaceX? Engineer Gwynne Shotwell was employee number seven at Elon Musk’s pioneering aerospace company and is now its president. In conversation with TED curator Chris Anderson, she discusses SpaceX’s race to put […]

What do you get when you give a design tool a digital nervous system? Computers that improve our ability to think and imagine, and robotic systems that come up with ( and build ) radical […]

In this What’s New in Aerospace program, NASA’s Nicholas Borer talks about the X-57 “Maxwell,” an all-electric experimental aircraft. Today, electrically-powered aircraft are starting to take flight, and the X-57 flight demonstrator is designed to […]

Current deep space telescopes do not provide a comprehensive picture of all objects in orbit around the Earth. The Space Surveillance Telescope program aims to enable ground-based, broad-area search, detection, and tracking of faint objects […]

Launch Site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network. Less than 24 hours after the launch, the string of 60 satellites were […]

A team of engineers at an aerospace startup is using one of the world’s largest 3D metal printers to build rockets, and it could be a ‘game changer’ in the space industry as we know […]