The Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft mission has debuted images of the sunlit Blue Marble Earth on a new NASA website, http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
Canada’s Liberal party scored a surprise victory in Monday’s federal election, and, for the time being, eliminated one of the largest export customers for the F-35.
The U.S. Navy will have to rely on more of its current aircraft to complement its planned carrier-based F-35C force, service officials and analysts say.
Dirk Hoke, 46, currently CEO of Siemens’ Large Drives business unit, will join Airbus Defense & Space on Jan. 1 as deputy CEO and will step up to the role of CEO on April 1, 2016.
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 3 USS Fort Worth completed aviation-related qualifications earlier this month during its first Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (Carat) exercise with Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, the U.S. Navy says.
RAYTHEON has $200m contract modification from U.S. Missile Defense Agency for continued software and hardware maintenance, limited modeling and simulation support, radar engineering support and Ballistic Missile Defense System test planning, execution and analysis. Work brings total contract value to $910m.
A National Academies panel is recommending the National Nuclear Security Administration develop a series of design competitions “that integrate the full end-to-end design process from novel design conception through production and non-nuclear testing of an engineered prototype,” to preserve the nation’s nuclear weapon design skills and help maintain a credible deterrent in the absence of nuclear testing.
To list anTo list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Oct. 22—The 30th Annual Women In Aerospace Awards Diner and Ceremony, Ritz Carlton, Arlington, Virginia. For more information go to http://www.womeninaerospace.org/events/current.html
The U.S. Transportation Department plans to finalize what will likely be an emergency rule requiring owners of recreational UAVs to register with the FAA.
Power cylinders were lowered into catapult one on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln in a Refueling and Complex Overhaul of the carrier.
Naval forces and liaisons from India, Japan and U.S. began Exercise Malabar 2015 earlier this month through air defense collaboration, U.S. officials say.
The Defense Science Board says cyber, ballistic defense and undersea warfare are three areas the DOD needs to bolster itself against strategic surprise.
The burgeoning relationship bonding the U.S., Japan and Australia will be key for the American rebalance in the Asia-Pacific, says, Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the Pacific Command.
Preliminary findings from the probe into May's fatal Osprey carsh in Hawaii are prompting the U.S. Marine Corps to take more care with maintenance and seemingly simple procedures like foreign object debris protection.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) says the return-to-flight mission of its Falcon 9 rocket will lift 11 second-generation machine-to-machine satellites for Orbcomm, rather than SES-9.
