I guess I first learned about formation flying when my flight instructor, Larry Whitesell, told a story involving—he thought—his buddy, Vince Wynn, who instructed for a school up the road, Cardinal ...

Generally speaking, space missions are being performed with lone spacecraft heading out into the void to achieve the desired goal of their makers. Sure, these machines might release other, smaller ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- An airshow team that debuted at Thunder Over Louisville this year soared about Bardstown on Sunday. Smoke On Aviation, an airshow team of pilots from Louisville, taught ...

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) has helped to establish that femtosecond comb lasers can provide accurate measurement of absolute distance in formation flying space missions. NPL, along with ...

Show host Bill Vasilovich rides the back seat as part of Formation flight training. Show host Bill Vasilovich rides the back seat as part of Formation flight training in Russian and Chinese YAK ...

A pair of spacecraft have demonstrated ultra-precise formation flying in orbit for the first time, marking a milestone with major implications for both science and future space missions. The pair ...

Satellites would be based on cubesat designs provided by Open Cosmos. Credit: Open Cosmos Astroscale UK and Open Cosmos have won a £5.15 million ($6.9 million) contract from the UK Ministry of Defense ...