
Cat Hofacker
Acting Editor-in-Chief at Aerospace America
Acting editor-in-chief @AeroAmMag
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2 weeks ago |
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Cat Hofacker
The union representing GE Aerospace’s engineers is fighting to shore up the company’s U.S.-based workforce when national contract negotiations begin June 2. “We want them to invest in engineering. We want them investing into the plant,” said Jerry Carney, the GE Conference Chair with the International Union of Electrical Workers-Communications Workers of America.
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2 months ago |
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Cat Hofacker
U.S. officials aim to harness commercial partnerships as quantum technologies gain momentum There’s a common refrain that often echoes across the frontiers of quantum sensing: You can’t hide from gravity. Anything with mass, however small, exerts a corresponding gravitational force.
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Feb 26, 2025 |
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Cat Hofacker
An app for that might not be crazyTonight’s planned launch of an Intuitive Machines lunar lander will, if all goes as intended, bring to three the number of commercial landers that will attempt to land on moon in the coming days and weeks. That sounds like a small number, but it’s a veritable rush hour considering that since 1966, 17 spacecraft from four countries have succeeded at soft landings on the lunar surface.
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Feb 14, 2025 |
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Paul Brinkmann |Cat Hofacker
The GoAERO Prize competition focused on aerial emergency response on Tuesday gave its first round of financial awards, totaling $500,000, to 25 teams around the U.S and five other nations that are developing small aircraft prototypes to deliver emergency cargo or rescue people in disaster zones. The winning designs include concepts for cargo aircraft and others that would carry injured or sick people. The contest encourages a large degree of autonomous control up to no human operator aboard.
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Jan 31, 2025 |
aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org | Cat Hofacker
The debut of Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket design vividly illustrated the contrast between Blue Origin’s “step by step, ferociously” approach and the “break it till you make it” philosophy that Elon Musk and SpaceX have embraced for the Starship-Super Heavy vehicles. Cat Hofacker analyzes the competing approaches, their origins and what’s at stake.
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