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NASA Begins Airborne Campaign to Map Greenland Ice Sheet Summer Melt.
For the first time, a NASA airborne campaign will measure changes in the height of the Greenland Ice Sheet and surrounding Arctic sea ice produced by a single season of summer melt. NASA’s C-130 research aircraft flew from the Wallops Flight Facility in Wallops Island, Va., to Greenland Wednesday where they will conduct survey…
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Austrian Airlines Significantly Increases its North American Flight Offering.
New as of July 2014: Five times per week to Newark, New Jersey Newark, New Jersey as the flight hub of our partner Airline offers many additional flight connections to American cities Starting July 2014: Daily flight service to Washington with the new Boeing 777 Effective May 2014: Daily service to Chicago instead of five…
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Last command sent to ESA’s Planck space telescope.
ESA’s Planck space telescope has been turned off after nearly 4.5 years soaking up the relic radiation from the Big Bang and studying the evolution of stars and galaxies throughout the Universe’s history. Mission controllers at ESA’s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany sent the final command to the Planck satellite this afternoon marking…
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Hong Kong Airlines took Supreme Service Awards for two consecutive years.
Hong Kong Airlines was recently presented with the “Supreme Service Awards 2013” at a presentation ceremony hosted by renowned financial magazine Capital CEO and Capital Entrepreneur. “Supreme Service Awards 2013” is voted by an expert panel of judges in recognition of those Hong Kong enterprises which demonstrated service excellence during the year. The award has…
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Harmonisation of the national Rules for military Operational Air Traffic in the Single European Sky.
EUROCONTROL is publishing today a complete set of specifications for harmonized Rules applicable to the predominant type of military air traffic (Operational Air Traffic – OAT) flying under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) inside controlled airspace of the ECAC area. The document, referred to as EUROAT, is the result of a number of years of sustained effort…