Also: MissionGO, NY Power Authority BVLOS, Second Soyuz Leak, Perseverance Rover
New York’s Blade Air Mobility and BETA Technologies conducted a recent successful test-flight of BETA’s ALIA-250 EVA (Electric Vertical Aircraft) at the Westchester County Airport (HPN) in White Plains, New York. The flight marked the first test of a piloted EVA in the greater New York City area and instantiated an initial success of the two companies’ plan to bring safe, quiet, and sustainable air-transportation to commuter and commercial customers. A group of aerial hobbyists in northern Illinois is contending that an unidentified flying object shot out of U.S. skies last week by a $400,000 AIM-9 Sidewinder missile fired from a $334-million F-22 Raptor might have been their $12 balloon. On Wednesday, 15 February 2023 the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade declared one of its exploratory pico-balloons had gone missing. Virgin Orbit’s principal offering is its LauncherOne rocket, an air-launched, two-stage orbital launch vehicle designed to carry smallsat payloads of up to 660-pounds into Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) following air launch from a Boeing 747 carrier aircraft dubbed Cosmic Girl. On 09 January 2023, during the vehicle’s first attempted orbital launch from the United Kingdom, LauncherOne experienced an anomaly, leading to a premature shutdown. All this — and MORE in today’s episode of Airborne-NextGen!!!
Airborne-NextGen 02.21.23 is chock full of info in this Weekly News Episode, Tuesday, February 21st, 2023… Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Hosts Holland Lee, Sophie Hurlock, Brianne Cross, Christopher Odom, and Laura Hutson, and is supported by ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell, and Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, this episode covers:
Blade Air Mobility and BETA Complete eVTOL Test Flight
Object Downed by USAF Possibly Launched by Hobbyists
Virgin Orbit Reports on Anomalous U.K. Mission
MissionGO Applauds Bipartisan Drone Legislation
FAA Grants NY Power Authority BVLOS Waiver
Leak in Second Soyuz Capsule Further Delays ISS Crew Rotation
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Photographs its Accomplishments
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