After briefings by NASA’s commercial crew program office and top Human Exploration and Operations managers, the independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) reported May 13 the agency current estimates a 1-in-200 chance a crew and vehicle will be lost on any given mission.
The NASA chair of the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Management Team (MMT) has endorsed Russia’s changes to ISS crew and cargo launch schedules in the aftermath of the late April Progress 59 resupply mission loss.
Scientists working on NASA’s long-term effort to gauge the effects of the space environment on the materials used to build spacecraft are happy to get a ride from the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B program, but they haven’t been told exactly where the Boeing-built reusable spaceplane will take their latest materials-exposure experiment.
A joint project of NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) designed to provide satellite data for rural development in the Third World is delivering bite-sized chunks of Earth-observation information from space to help authorities in Nepal respond to the deadly earthquakes there.
Engineers are having trouble extracting data from the flight data recorders of an A400M airlifter that crashed May 9 near Seville, Spain, killing four crewmembers.
India’s plan to procure midair refueler aircraft is progressing well, the country’s defense minister says, marking a major step to increase the operational reach of the air force.
BOEING was selected by Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to supply P-8A Poseidon training system in 2018. VECTOR AEROSPACE was selected by Portuguese navy to provide structural repairs/systems upgrades on an Mk .95 Lynx in Gosport, U.K.
Russia’s federal space agency will delay near-term International Space Station Soyuz crew and Progress resupply launch and landing operations following the recent failed Progress M-27M cargo mission.
The Spanish defense ministry has temporarily revoked the flight test permit for the A400M airlifter following the crash that killed four people on May 9.
The chief of the Royal Netherlands Air Force has signed an agreement that will open the way for the country’s fast jet pilots to be trained in Italy on the M-346 jet trainer.
The U.S. Navy’s Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23 tested for the first time on an aircraft carrier the “Magic Carpet” carrier landing aid system while underway onboard CVN 77 USS George H.W. Bush in late April in the Atlantic Ocean.
While the Pentagon spends more on contracts than other government agencies, its seesawing budget and spending trends make it more difficult to carry out budget cuts, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) says.
The U.S. should develop a new suite of nuclear weapons, including a revived enhanced-radiation warhead (ERW) or “neutron bomb,” to be deployed in allied nations in Europe and Asia and delivered by F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, according to a report.
Australia has begun building the infrastructure it will need to support its planned force of at least 72 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings, with much of the work driven by U.S. demands for tightened security of the aircraft and their systems.
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps leaders have been emphasizing recently the need to work on better joint operations and the services have started official exercises with that in mind.
Flourishing well into their second decade, the versatile CubeSat family may soon have dedicated, NASA-initiated competing commercial launch services providers.
