Fighter pilots display their skills when they're flying in tight formations, what looks like a mere inches from one another.

Because of its ability to attack targets that were hundreds of miles away from its airbases in England, the bombers of World War II were vital assets to the Allied war effort. Tasked with the ...

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 ...

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The Sun’s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA’s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar eclipses ...

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 ...