After a failed attempt two days earlier, thrusters on the Russian Progress 58 re-supply capsule docked to the International Space Station (ISS) fired for just over 32 min. on May 17, successfully raising the altitude of the six-person orbiting-science laboratory.
With certification under its belt, the company is able to proceed with the initial deliveries of the first two aircraft to the German air force later this year.
Airbus deployed a single Caracal, destined for the Brazilian navy, to Powidz, Poland, on May 14 to begin trials to check that the performance of the aircraft lives up to the promises made by the company in its tender.
NASA’s Space Launch System program manager says the main risk to the heavy rocket's scheduled November 2018 debut is an installation problem encountered by crews at Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
The recent test shots, known as “no-loads” because no aircraft or other loads were attached to the launching shuttle, successfully demonstrated the integrated catapult system, which is designed to launch all current and future planned carrier aircraft.
As a first step, the U.S. Air Force will be pushing for a more-open systems architecture in Block 4, the first post-service-entry upgrade for the F-35.
The Pentagon will select a contractor for the $80 billion Long-Range Strike Bomber program in “one to two months,” according to William LaPlante, U.S. Air Force assistant secretary for acquisition.
The service is looking at technology that can extend the range of its torpedoes, now at about 10 nm, to about 200 nm, says Vice Adm. Michael Connor, commander of U.S. Submarine Forces and Allied Submarine Command.
Where HAV’s hybrid airship is heavier than air, for ease of handling on the ground, and uses a combination of aerodynamic, buoyant and propulsive lift to take off, Aeros’s Aeroscraft rigid airship can take off and land vertically using a “control of static heaviness” (COSH) system to vary buoyancy while keeping hull volume constant.
The 40,000-ton Vikrant, meaning “bold” or “courageous,” will be undocked at the state-owned Cochin shipyard in southern state of Kerala on May 28 following completion of some pending structural work, a yard official says.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee that funds NASA marked up and approved an $18.5 billion fiscal 2016 spending bill for the agency May 14 that boosts exploration, but slightly cuts science funding as compared to 2015-enacted levels.
Avic’s preliminary development of technology for a short-takeoff-vertical-landing (Stovl) fighter, discussed by state media this week, probably means that the Chinese military has some interest in operating such an aircraft but does not necessarily mean it has a concrete plan to do so.
A leading contender in the Google Lunar X Prize competition has signed an agreement to land laser-reflecting arrays on the surface of the Moon, continuing experiments placed on the lunar surface by Apollo astronauts.
The House Science, Space and Technology Committee has approved the Spurring Private Aerospace Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship Act, or SPACE Act, of 2015.
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TEXTRON hosted student pilots from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Textron Aviation’s Wichita facilities to evaluate Scorpion ISR/strike jet and Beechcraft AT-6 light attack aircraft as part of school’s Capstone Project.
For the second year, the House Armed Services Committee has called for the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) to ensure that testing does not “unnecessarily impede program schedules or increase program costs.” And for the second year, the watchdog Project on Government Oversight (POGO) is opposing the provision. Last year, POGO asked Senate defense authorizers to keep it out of the final version of the defense policy bill.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) CEO Tory Bruno says he has no plans to let anyone else build the Atlas V rocket, despite the company’s stated plans to retire the vehicle early in the next decade.
Citing personal reasons involving her family, British soprano and prospective space tourist Sarah Brightman has withdrawn from a 10-day Russian Soyuz taxi mission to the International Space Station planned for a Sept. 1 launch with two Russian and European professional astronauts.
Sixteen C295s would be provided in flyaway condition by a Tata/Airbus team and 40 more from a new Indian production line. The proposals will now be considered by India’s defense cabinet committee for final approval.
Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth arrived in Subic Bay, Philippines, earlier this month following a routine patrol in international waters and airspace of the South China Sea near the Spratly Islands.
Adm. John Richardson, currently serving as director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, has been nominated to replace Adm. Jonathan Greenert as the country’s chief of naval operations (CNO).
The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17, and Destroyer Squadron (Desron) 1 participated in various bi-lateral training events earlier this month in the South China Sea with Malaysian air and surface units.
