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Aerospace

Testing, Testing: NASA’s New Supersonic Jet To Start Ground Trials

Jay Stowe
January 18, 2022

The Concorde completed its last transatlantic flight in 2003, but commercial aviation has kept looking for new ways to fly faster than the speed of sound. That chance just got one step closer to reality.

In August 2020, NASA took delivery of the first F414-GE-100 engine built by GE Aviation for its X-59 QueSST plane, a one-of-a-kind experimental aircraft that will fly faster than Mach 1 and higher than most high-performance aircraft, at 55,000 feet.

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GE Research Awarded NASA Grant to Develop High Temperature Solutions to Enhance Missions to Venus

January 05, 2022
  • GE researchers applying novel silicon carbide (SiC) photodiode technology to develop and demonstrate a UV imager that reliably operates in hot and harsh environments of 500 degrees Celsius (932 degrees Fahrenheit) to study the composition and structure of Venus’ surface and atmosphere
  • Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System, with extreme atmospheric pressures and surface temperatures of 475 degrees Celsius, or 900 degrees Fahrenheit, similar to a wood-fired pizza oven
  • High temperature, ruggedized electronics are essential for enabling long-term robotic exp

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Innovation

Hot Science: NASA And GE Research Venus Project Could Aid Aviation, Energy Industries

Will Palmer
January 04, 2022
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An atmosphere composed almost entirely of carbon dioxide. Clouds made of sulfuric acid. Daytime highs reaching 880 degrees. Let’s face it, a trip to Venus isn’t for the faint of heart. And yet the second planet from the sun has suddenly become the object of renewed interest, with two NASA missions announced this summer and a third by the European Space Agency.

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NASA Hibrit Elektrik Teknolojisi Test Aracı İçin GE Havacılık'ı Seçti

October 09, 2021

 

NASA hibrit elektrik teknolojisi test aracı için  GE Havacılık'ı seçti

 

  • GE, NASA işbirliğiyle MW sınıfı entegre hibrit elektrik hareket aktarma hattının geliştirilmesinde rol alacak
  • Yer ve uçuş testlerinin 2020'li yılların ortasında gerçekleştirilmesi planlanıyor

 

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Future of Flight

Electric Sky: New NASA Partnership To Take GE’s Hybrid Electric Flight Research To New Heights

Tomas Kellner
October 01, 2021

Reflecting on a recent visit to NASA, GE Aviation President and CEO John Slattery wrote this week that decarbonizing aviation was “our industry’s moonshot.” Now GE engineers and the U.S. space agency get to work on the moonshot together.

NASA awarded GE $179 million to help mature electric flight propulsion technologies today. Investments by GE and its partners will bring funding for the project to $260 million.

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Space Exploration

Spaced Out: New Batch Of Data From The Edge Of The Solar System Keeps Scientists Starry-Eyed

Amy Kover
November 17, 2019
“Interstellar medium” sounds like a psychic with super-long-distance capabilities, but it’s actually a region of space just beyond the heliosphere — the bubble in the solar system that holds the eight planets (plus poor downgraded Pluto). Created by the solar wind, the bubble is what protects the planetary system, including us, from galactic radiation. But what happens at the edge of the bubble?
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3D Printing

Hot Stuff: To Build More Affordable Rocket Engines, NASA Researchers Are Using The Latest 3D Printers — And 1 Ancient Metal

Scott Woolley
August 28, 2019

When Christopher Protz and Paul Gradl first started experimenting with building rocket engine components out of copper, the NASA engineers feared they might be wasting their time. Back in 2014, copper had never been used in 3D printing, and it appeared ill-suited to the technology. For one thing, particles of the shiny metal had a nasty habit of directly reflecting the 3D printers’ laser beams, partially melting the copper while frying some very expensive lasers. Early prototypes, recalls Protz, came out looking like “dark-colored blobs.”

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Apollo

The Test Pilot: Neil Armstrong And GE’s Elliot See Were First Civilian Astronauts

Tomas Kellner
July 19, 2019

In the early fall of 1962, Neil Armstrong climbed into a car with GE test pilot Elliot See Jr. at what is now called the Armstrong Flight Research Facility in Edwards, California. They set out from the Mojave Desert town for NASA’s Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston some 1,600 miles away.

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Apollo 11

Heaven Can’t Wait: GE Engineer Led NASA During Historic Moon Landing

Tomas Kellner
July 18, 2019

Fifty years ago this month, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins were sitting inside an aluminum can roughly the size and shape of a New York City water tower, zipping at 24,000 miles per hour to the moon. On July 20, 1969, after covering more than 240,000 miles, Armstrong and Aldrin took control of the landing module attached to the spacecraft’s nose, took off for a landing site in the Sea of Tranquility some 60 miles below them on the lunar surface, and became the first humans to walk on the surface of the moon.

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space

Fantastic Voyage: NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space After 41 Years, Still Powered By GE

Tomas Kellner
December 11, 2018

Earlier this week, NASA announced that the Voyager 2 space probe has become only the second object made by humans to leave the solar system — specifically, the protective bubble called the heliosphere, which shelters the planets from galactic cosmic rays — and enter interstellar space. Voyager 1, the probe’s twin, achieved the same feat in 2012, flying on a more direct path.

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