Controllers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are beginning a complex set of 44 deployments on four scientific spacecraft launched late March 12 to study what happens when clouds of space plasma collide with an explosive release of energy.
The U.K. defense ministry says it wants a vanilla fleet of upgraded AH-64E Apache attack helicopters to replace its existing fleet of WAH-64D Block I aircraft – but it is facing a difficult choice about who to approach for the upgrade.
Chinese rocket builder CALT has assembled the airframe of the first Long March 5, a new type of space launcher that will loft the country’s heaviest loads into space.
The submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) has completed repairs and other work on an assortment of U.S. Navy ships supporting multiple U.S. naval assets.
Five E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes assigned to Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 125 are set to make their first deployment as part of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1 aboard the aircraft carrier CVN 71 USS Theodore Roosevelt.
GENERAL DYNAMICS LAND SYSTEMS and THALES AUSTRALIA signed MOU to submit a bid in response to Australia’s Land 400 Phase 2 - Mounted Combat Reconnaissance Capability Request For Tender. GENERAL DYNAMICS ELECTRIC BOAT laid keel of the submarine Colorado, 15th Virginia-class sub. Delivery date is August 2017.
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/03/asd_03_12_2015_dossierspecs.pdf B-52H Stratofortress Specs (See pp. 6-9 for full B-52 Program Dossier) Designation: B-52H Name:
/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/03/asd_03_12_2015_dossier11.pdf Definition: The B-52 "Stratofortress" is a U.S. long-range, heavy bomber. It was produced by Boeing and continues to be maintained by the company.
“The future is bright for Sikorsky,” says the CEO of the rotorcraft maker’s parent company, United Technologies Corp. (UTC) – but it is not bright enough to keep it inside UTC.
The global aerospace materials market is expected to increase at a 6.6% compound annual growth rate through 2019, reaching $18.5 billion in value, a new study shows.
Three U.S. and Russian astronauts returned to Earth after departing the International Space Station aboard their Soyuz-TMA-14M spacecraft and descending under parachute into central Kazakhstan.
The Zumwalt’s electric drive and other technological improvements underscore the Navy’s efforts to harness energy resources more efficiently at sea, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says.
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) says it has verified the viability of long-distance wireless power transmission, which could be used for space-based solar power generation, and will now pursue practical application of the technology.
French defense procurement agency DGA has selected Airbus Defense and Space and Thales to co-prime design and construction of Europe’s first operational space-based military signals intelligence system.
Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus hosts a deep ocean of moderate alkalinity that interacts with a hot rocky core, producing hydrothermal conditions similar to those that may have spawned the first living organisms on early Earth, a study shows.
The Turkish government has decided to cease operations with its McDonnell Douglas RF-4E Phantom reconnaissance aircraft following a series of fatal accidents.
Solid-propulsion engineers are evaluating data from the static test of a five-segment solid-rocket booster designed to boost NASA’s planned Space Launch System heavy lifter off the pad when it begins moving human explorers beyond low Earth orbit.
