Fri, Nov 14, 2014
The European Space Agency confirmed the touchdown by sending a message on Twitter announcing "Receipt of signal from surface" shortly after the landing Wednesday morning. The landing 300 million miles from Earth culminates a 10-year journey for the Philae spacecraft.
It’s reported the message from the comet confirming the landing took 28 minutes to reach Earth. NASA has signed a lease with Planetary Ventures, LLC to manage Moffett Federal Airfield , an agency facility located in Moffett Field, California, and rehabilitate its historic Hangar One. NASA estimates the lease will save the agency approximately $6.3 million and provide $1.16 billion in rent over the initial 60-year lease term. The FAA is close to releasing its long-awaited rule for small UAVs, according to UAS Integration Office manager Jim Williams. Williams said “We’re taking great strides to authorize commercial operations in the U.S., and the small unmanned aircraft systems rule that we’ve all been waiting on so long is getting really close to being done. We hope that it will be published before the end of this year.” All this... and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!
Airborne 11.14.14 is chock full of info in this thrice-weekly news period ending Friday, November 14th, 2014...
Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Ashley Hale, and supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, and Aero-Journalists Tom Patton, and Earl Downs, this episode covers:
- ESA Confirms Touchdown On Comet 67P
- NASA Leases Moffett AirField To Google
- FAA Official Says UAV Rule Coming Soon
- Barnstorming: Mark Baker Talks About AOPA’s Greatest Challenges During 2014
- More Sync, New Performance Planning In ForeFlight Mobile 6.4
- Foley: Signs Point Towards Small- And Medium-Jet Rebound
- Elon Musk Imagines Satellite-Based Internet For The Planet
- CASA Warns Of Jabiru Engine Failures
Get Comprehensive, Real-Time, 24/7 coverage of the latest aviation and aerospace stories anytime, at aero-news.net. And be sure to join us again next week for the next edition of "Airborne" here on Aero-TV. Thanks for watching. See you, again, in just a few days!
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