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Jun 24, 2024 · Concorde successfully completes its maiden flight on 2 March 1969. The French Concorde 001, piloted by test pilot André Turcat, took off from Toulouse and was in the air for 27 minutes...
1 day ago · This page shows New Horizons location and other relevant astronomical data in real time. The celestial coordinates, magnitude, distances and speed are updated in real time and are computed using high quality data sets provided by the JPL Horizons ephemeris service (see acknowledgements for details).
New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched in January 2006 with the mission to explore the dwarf planet Pluto and the Kuiper Belt, the outermost region of the Solar System beyond the orbit of Neptune.
Jun 6, 2024 · Yesterday marked the silver jubilee of the Concorde’s fastest transatlantic crossing. Flying from New York to London in 1996, the British Airways flight shattered the record and remains faster than any flight today.
Jun 20, 2024 · What is the Concorde? How was the Concorde developed? When was the first Concorde flight? How much was a ticket on the Concorde? Why was the Concorde retired? Concorde, the first supersonic passenger-carrying commercial airplane (or supersonic transport, SST), built jointly by aircraft manufacturers in Great Britain and France.
3 days ago · Concorde was an ogival delta-winged ("OG delta wing") aircraft with four Olympus engines based on those originally developed for the Avro Vulcan strategic bomber. The engines were jointly built by Rolls-Royce and SNECMA. Concorde was the first civil airliner to have an analogue fly-by-wire flight control system.
2 days ago · Spacecraft Overview. Image: NASA/JHU/SwRI. New Horizons is a Deep Space Exploration Mission operated by NASA, launched to study the Dwarf Planet Pluto and other icy objects in the Kuiper Belt. Launched in 2006, New Horizons set the record for the highest launch speed of a human-made object, entering a trajectory to escape the solar system, set ...
