Russia’s wayward Progress 59 International Space Station resupply mission spacecraft appears destined for an uncontrolled overnight re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
Lawmakers are putting up the cash to back up their concern for U.S. shipbuilding programs, according to Michael Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the nation’s top naval vessel builder.
Japan, challenged with a numerically superior Chinese fighter force, is re-examining the 1950s concept of exercising air control with low-performance aircraft firing high-performance missiles.
With flight tests underway on the improved Anka B unmanned aerial system, Turkish Aerospace Industries is focusing its attention on making the production system, Anka S, ready for operations by the Turkish air force.
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) hit many marks for Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) testing in fiscal 2014 but failed to hit its overall goals, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says in a recent report.
The Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth stopped in Subic Bay, the Philippines, on May 4 to resupply and refuel before continuing routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.
Researchers studying how various materials perform in long-duration exposure to the space environment will get a ride on the U.S. Air Force’s X-37B reusable unpiloted spaceplane’s next flight, NASA said May 6.
India and France have decided to expedite an intergovernmental agreement to buy 36 Rafale fighters by establishing special teams to work out the details of the acquisition process.
To navigate the cyber realm more safely with its ships, aircraft and other platforms, the U.S. Navy has to pay closer attention to the way it operates and the technology it uses, says Vice Adm. Jan Tighe, commander of the Fleet Cyber Command and Tenth Fleet.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has announced the first-ever Air Force Prize, awarding $2 million for the first developer of a lightweight, turbine engine to power a UAV.
NASA ground control teams working with a mock satellite bus positioned outside the International Space Station have completed a five-day round of hardware staging and technology demonstrations that one day could robotically refurbish satellites as distant as geosynchronous orbit.
The test, which culminated with splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean just offshore, marks a major milestone on the road to using the Crew Dragon for human missions to the International Space Station in 2017.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is ratcheting up its search for and characterization of potential ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s south pole, following a pair of altitude-lowering maneuvers.
Russian Helicopters has delivered the first two repaired Ka-31 airborne early warning helicopters to India, with the remaining four helos to be handed over in the “near future.”
While lawmakers continue to debate the construction program for future Ford-class aircraft carriers, work continues to inactivate the first nuclear-powered carrier in Tidewater, Virginia.
The U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 7 completed its annual Fleet Synthetic Training - Joint Exercise (FST-J) 15-72 aboard the amphibious assault ship LHD 6 USS Bonhomme Richard earlier this month.
