Inside a Hamburg maintenance hangar belonging to Lufthansa Technik (LHT), a 40-year-old Boeing 747 Special Performance is undergoing a heavy check to help keep the heavily modified, NASA-owned ...

Telescopes come in all shapes and sizes, depending on use, and can be placed anywhere, from facilities down here on Earth to floating free, millions of miles away from our planet. But if they’re truly ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Science missions using the Boeing 747SP-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) airborne observatory will end in September 2022 after the U.S. National ...

COLORADO SPRINGS—Almost three months after its final science mission ended, NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) 747SP airborne telescope has been retired to the Pima Air & ...

PALMDALE >> SOFIA is big, beautiful and voluptuous. A sparkling, heavily modified NASA 747SP painted gleaming white with red, blue and black accents, she also carries a heavy workload, both ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. NASA's ...

For upwards of four decades, the Boeing 747 was pound for pound the largest, most capable, and the most iconic wide-body, quad-engine airliner the world had ever seen. Though Airbus' A380 may have may ...

NASA/DFRC intends to award a sole source purchase order for a Boeing 747SP aircraft to be utilized for 747 spare and 747SP specific repairable components. NASA/DFRC intends to purchase the items from ...

At a glance, it’s apparent that something isn’t right about the Boeing 747 NASA flew over the Mojave desert last month. The unusual airplane isn’t some crazy new aerodynamic experiment, it’s part of ...

The Boeing 747 ushered in the age of the jumbo jet when it first took flight in 1969, but at least one variant actually had to be cut down to size for continued success. The Boeing 747SP — for Special ...

NASA reports positive results from initial open-door testing of its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (Sofia), a research platform that includes a 19t telescope mounted on a Boeing ...