The airborne observatory's studies will enrich similar data to be collected July 14 when the nuclear-powered New Horizons probe makes its close flyby of Pluto and its large moon Charon.
Saab has signed contracts with Swedish defense material agency FMV covering the construction of two new A26 submarines and a major midlife upgrade for two Gotland-class boats.
Boeing is to collaborate with Embraer to fly a testbed for environmental technologies in Brazil in 2016, as a follow-on to the U.S. manufacturer’s series of ecoDemonstrators.
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy recently conducted the critical design review (CDR) for the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Aerial Refueling (AR) system, the company says.
Projectiles with onboard electronics survived the railgun launch environment and performed their intended functions in four consecutive tests recently at the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Ground in Utah.
South Korea will order four Airbus A330 MRTT tankers, extending the type’s unbroken run of wins over the Boeing KC-46 Pegasus in non-U.S. competitions.
GE and USAF teamed to develop adaptive cycle engine that can switch between raw power of a military jet and efficient power of a civilian airliner; it could achieve 10% higher thrust, 25% better fuel consumption, and 30% longer range vs. latest military jet engines.
The U.S. Congress is out of session this week as the July 4 holiday looms, but various groups and think tanks are keeping busy in the nation’s capital. Wednesday morning the Air Force Association hosts a breakfast discussion with analysts from the George C. Marshall Institute and Brookings Institution entitled “Dealing With – and Dissuading – Russia?
The U.S. Navy installed the C4I suite aboard the afloat forward staging base (AFSB) variant of the mobile landing platform (MLP) USNS Lewis B. Puller following recently completed acceptance trials.
Russia’s next Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station offers little if any direct relief after more than 5,500 lb. of pressurized and unpressurized cargo bound for the outpost rained down on the Atlantic Ocean in fragments Sunday.
India has fast-tracked efforts to build a dedicated communications satellite for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) area, hoping to launch it by the end of next year, a senior space scientist says.
White House Budget Director Shaun Donovan warns senators that the NASA spending bill adopted by their appropriations committee threatens to delay “demonstration of a cutting-edge laser communications system” being prepared to broaden the bandwidth on deep-space missions.
Since announcing its first commercial satellite export sale in recent memory in May with a contract for two commercial communications satellites for fleet operator Arabsat, Lockheed Martin is now exploring the potential for a joint venture with Saudi Arabia.
Operations on the International Space Station can continue for now without major upset in the wake of Sunday’s failure of a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying a Dragon capsule crammed with supplies and equipment, but the program will have to make significant adjustments to accommodate the loss.
With the loss of the SpaceX Falcon9/Dragon resupply mission, the U.S. is temporarily without the means to launch astronauts or cargo to the International Space Station.
Falcon 9 launch failure raises near-term questions about supplies for space station crew and could complicate SpaceX's push to launch national security payloads.
REPUBLIC OF GHANA ordered five A-29 Super Tucano light attack/trainers. DISCOVERY AIR DEFENSE SERVICES was selected by German air force to supply A-4 Skyhawks for Eurofighter training in Italy. BOEING delivered 28th and final C-17 aircrew training simulator to U.S. Air Force. KELLSTROM DEFENSE AEROSPACE was appointed by Arkwin Industries as a distributor for its C-130, F-16 components.
REPUBLIC OF GHANA ordered five A-29 Super Tucano light attack/trainers. DISCOVERY AIR DEFENSE SERVICES was selected by German air force to supply A-4 Skyhawks for Eurofighter training in Italy. BOEING delivered 28th and final C-17 aircrew training simulator to U.S. Air Force. KELLSTROM DEFENSE AEROSPACE was appointed by Arkwin Industries as a distributor for its C-130, F-16 components.
To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) July 7-9—Fourth International Space Station Research and Development Conference, Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts. For more information go to www.issconference.org/
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) wants to focus on replacing the hydrocarbon-fueled Russian rocket engine used to launch most U.S. national security spacecraft, but the companies and military officials who can make that happen let him know Friday it won’t be that simple.
The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Aviation failed to effectively manage government-owned V-22 Osprey spare parts, the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) says in a recent report.
