India plans to carry out a test flight of its reusable rocket launcher in March, in what could be a first step toward affordable access to space technology.
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has slipped the launch of its fifth commercial resupply services mission to the international space station to Jan. 9 at the earliest following an issue with a thrust vector control actuator which stopped the countdown seconds before liftoff on Jan 6 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
AURORA FLIGHT SCIENCES has $6m Phase 1 contract from Darpa for the Aircrew Labor In-cockpit Automation System (Alias) pro- gram. Alias is aimed at inserting automation into existing aircraft to cut crew requirements for military and civilian aircraft. ORBCOMM INC. completed acquisition of SKYWAVE MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS on Jan. 1.
The U.S. Congress returns to work this week, though neither chamber’s armed services committee has scheduled any public hearings. But on Wednesday, Sean Stackley, the U.S.
"GAO disagreed with Sierra Nevada’s arguments about NASA’s evaluation, and found no undue emphasis on NASA’s consideration of each offeror’s proposed schedule, and likelihood to achieve crew transportation system certification not later than 2017," the congressional auditors said.
The SpaceX Dragon capsule scheduled to launch to the International Space Station as early as Tuesday morning carries student experiments and nanosatellites replacing some of those lost on the launch failure of an Orbital Science Corp. Antares/Cygnus cargo last October.
For the second time in just more than a month, the U.K. government has been forced to request help from NATO allies to provide maritime patrol aircraft to hunt for a suspected foreign submarine.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory team behind NASA’s Messenger mission – the first spacecraft to circle the planet Mercury – has devised a strategy to extend unprecedented low orbit operations by several weeks.
The U.S. Navy sent the destroyer DDG 102 USS Sampson and Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth to help with the maritime search following the AirAsia Flight 8501 tragedy.
The South Korean and Japanese defense ministries and the U.S. Defense Department finalized a trilateral information-sharing arrangement last month concerning the nuclear and missile threats posed by North Korea.
A debate about the need for global flight tracking and data streaming is back on the airwaves after AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared from radar on Dec. 28 and the Airbus A320’s emergency locator transmitters failed to emit signals before entering the Java Sea.
Airbus is urging Japan to base its next army utility helicopter on the X4, an advanced rotorcraft that the European manufacturer is developing for the civil market.
The South Korean and Japanese defense ministries and the U.S. Defense Department finalized a trilateral information-sharing arrangement earlier this month concerning the nuclear and missile threats posed by North Korea.
Koppillil Radhakrishnan has retired as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization after leading the space agency to its greatest glory, including a successful mission to Mars.
Airbus and Boeing are jointly attempting to unseat Lockheed Martin from South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program, offering technology from Europe that could not be supplied from U.S. sources, industry officials say.
An India parliamentary panel on defense has asked the government to expedite the procurement of all pending fighter aircraft as the country’s air force squadron strength has dwindled to 25 from the sanctioned 42 fighters.
The National Engineering Forum (NEF) reports a wide-ranging response to the early efforts of a multiyear campaign to increase engineering awareness in the U.S., as well as the organization’s goal of developing a more-diverse, better-qualified talent pool to fill the need for future professionals.
The wheeled version of India’s homegrown unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Nishant, called “Panchi” or Bird, has made its first flight, joining the likes of Global Hawk and Predator.
The first of four Boeing KC-46A engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) aircraft made its first flight from Paine Field, Everett, Washington, on Dec. 28, starting the clock ticking toward the planned delivery of the first 18 new 767-based tankers to the U.S. Air Force by August 2017.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), the intended prime contractor, may select between the two of them as early as the first quarter of 2015, but the choice will need approval from the defense ministry. The candidate base designs are the Airbus EC155 B1 and the AgustaWestland AW169.
