HOUSTON – NASA faces a steep rise in the cost of supporting the International Space Station (ISS), according to a cautionary audit from the agency’s inspector general. It is a trend that threatens to take a prolonged financial toll if a U.S.-backed, four-year extension of operations through 2024 wins support from the orbiting lab’s major partners.
NanoRacks has teamed with Blue Origin to provide payload accommodation for scientific experiments and education projects on the New Shepard suborbital spaceflight vehicle when it begins flying as early as next year.
The International Space Station (ISS) crew took shelter in their docked Soyuz crew transport vehicle early July 16 after a fragment from a former Russian weather satellite threatened to pass close before flight controllers here and in Moscow could arrange an avoidance maneuver.
South Korean program managers may have to trim a plan to modernize 134 F-16s, following U.S. Defense Department confirmation that the proposed work by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman would exceed Seoul’s budget.
Australia may increase its planned force of Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrollers under a policy set out in a defense white paper expected within weeks, local media say.
The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth partnered with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer DDG 82 USS Lassen earlier this month to complete their first combined South China Sea presence operations.
While Talisman Saber dates back about a decade, this is the first centered in this area since the major increase in the U.S. Marine presence near Darwin, and the first to include Japanese forces.
Pluto has previously unsuspected mountains of water ice as high as the Rockies, while its moon Charon features spectacular canyons as much as 6 mi. deep.
“This agreement with TASL is significant because it demonstrates Boeing’s commitment to expanding its aerospace manufacturing footprint in India,” says Shelley Lavender, president of Boeing Military Aircraft.
A leading Australian defense think tank is urging Canberra to question the viability of the surface warship before committing to continuous construction of naval vessels in the country.
Mars One, the Dutch nonprofit trying to establish a growing human settlement on the Red Planet by the late 2020s, plans to use team challenge, isolation and rigorous interview strategies to cull its current international roster of 50 men and 50 women down to 24 prospective colonists.
The U.S. worldwide aircraft carrier presence will likely increase in the coming year, says Rear Adm. Jeff Harley, assistant deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy.
BOEING and AH-64E Apache industry partners General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Longbow Ltd. launched initiative with Polish Armaments Group (PGZ) to explore opportunities for collaboration with Polish industry. ARCA SPACE CORP. (unmanned aerial vehicles) will locate its headquarters and U.S. production facility at Las Cruces International Airport.
The U.S. Navy has awarded teammates Bell Helicopter and Boeing a contract for five V-22 Ospreys for Japan, marking the first foreign military sale of the tiltrotor. The $332.5 million contract includes the Block C aircraft, support, training and related equipment. “The versatile V-22 tiltrotor will allow Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force greatly enhanced capabilities, while providing an ideal platform for relief efforts in response to natural disasters,” the companies said in announcing the contract. The V-22 is in service with the U.S.
LAUREL, Maryland — Pluto’s nitrogen-rich atmosphere appears to be leaking across open space to collect on at least one of the poles of the dwarf planet’s large moon Charon, according to scientists processing data the New Horizons probe sent to Earth shortly before its closest approach to the two bodies.
Only a few short minutes into its June 28 flight, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 began to break apart, prompting the U.S. Air Force to exercise a rare responsibility to send destruct signals to the rocket.
Raytheon has turned to nontraditional suppliers to produce a lower-cost airframe for the Miniature Air-Launched Decoy (MALD) in a move that also paves the way for a modular, interchangeable payload capability.
