The “LuxStream” service will connect with SES’ managed Ku-band satellite network to offer data speeds of up to 25 Mbps in the U.S. and 15 Mbps globally.
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is to equip its fleet of eight Beechcraft Shadow tactical intelligence-gathering aircraft with Leonardo’s Miysis directed infrared countermeasure.
EUROPEAN INVESTMENT BANK and European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency signed agreement Sept. 10 to cooperate on supporting investment in European space-based service economy.
Impatient U.S. lawmakers are threatening to transfer authority and some procurement funding for buying light attack aircraft to U.S. Special Operational Command from the USAF.
Lockheed Martin intends to migrate its F-35 digital support backbone, the Autonomic Logistics Information System, to a native-cloud architecture by year’s end and field it in 2020.
Good requirements resolve security issues with drones, according to an executive with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), which operates a large fleet of small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) that includes DJI drones made in China.
Canada will expand its CH-149 Cormorant search-and-rescue helicopter force with at least two more aircraft as the fleet undergoes a midlife update, Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan has announced.
To be sure an emphasis on lunar field geology is not overlooked as NASA races to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024, NASA is being called on to set a high bar for training in the discipline for its future lunar and Mars astronauts.
The U.S. Navy is developing an On-Demand Hypoxia Trainer to provide awareness of the condition and is garnering pilot feedback on how to make improvements before it enters the fleet in 2021.
The U.S. Congress returns to work this week after its summer recess, with Senate appropriators marking up the 2020 defense spending bill Tuesday morning.
Missile manufacturer MBDA is developing concepts for new short-range air-to-air missiles that could be one of the armaments for the UK’s future Tempest combat aircraft.
A fire broke out during final preparations for launch of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIB rocket carrying a cargo ship to the International Space Station for JAXA.
GTA Containers Inc., South Bend, Indiana, has been awarded a $9,478,079 contract modification (P00004) to previously awarded FA8533-16-D-0001 for collapsible fuel tank production.
HAPSMobile, the joint venture between AeroVironment and Japan’s SoftBank, is preparing to fly the Hawk30 high-altitude pseudo-satellite at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center on Edwards AFB in California.
President Donald Trump has dismissed his third national security adviser, John Bolton, a defense hawk who advocated for more DOD spending and to keep troops in Afghanistan.
Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Airlines has been testing since the middle of the year an autonomous drone that inspects paintwork or structural damage on Airbus A320 aircraft.
