NASA Debuts Global Hawk Autonomous Aircraft for Earth Science

NASA and the Northrop Grumman Corp. of Los Angeles have unveiled the first Global Hawk aircraft system to be used for environmental science research, heralding a new application for the world's first fully autonomous high-altitude, long-endurance aircraft.

Link: http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jan/HQ_09-008_Global_Hawk.html

Time: 15. Jan. 2009

Feed: NASA Breaking News

Topics: aircraft, autonomous, global, hawk, nasa, science