Richard Branson-backed space startup Virgin Orbit has completed a key step along its path to launching satellites for commercial customers. The company held a successful “drop test” of its LauncherOne ...

Heinä’s Drop Tester enables direct verification of impact results on electronic devices, and we talk to Terrell Tronordstr and Ilkka Heinä about how it aids engineering design. Used to test the ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. – Airborne Soldiers here executed low-velocity airdrop tests of a new remote controlled equipment transport system. The Airborne and Special Operations Test Directorate conducted ...

AirLaunch LLC, DARPA and the Air Force made history yesterday as a simulated AirLaunch QuickReach(TM) rocket weighing 65,000 lbs was dropped out of a C-17A cargo aircraft, making it the heaviest ...

FORT BRAGG, North Carolina -- Aviation support Soldiers here recently tested an attack helicopter refueling and rearming system by air-dropping it out of U.S. Air Force cargo aircraft. The Forward ...

A mock-up of the ExoMars landing capsule survived a high altitude drop test but parachute problems, which have plagued the European/Russian Mars mission for years, are not yet completely resolved. The ...

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We put both the iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro through a series of drops to see if they would survive. Turns out, they're a lot tougher than we thought. Lexy was a producer and on-air presenter who ...

The launch of flagship smartphones from mainstream brands usually brings with it a host of tests of all kinds. After all, premium phones are becoming more and more expensive, and potential buyers want ...

In the first round, the phones were dropped from a height of 1.5 meters onto their backs. Upon impact, the rear glass of both devices shattered, highlighting the vulnerability of glass surfaces.