For the first time, journalists have been permitted to tour Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense manufacturing, final assembly and test facility, where the company has produced 450 interceptors since 2007.
The ACMI pod, developed by the defense ministry’s Defense Potential Directorate and private company PT Tress, is ready for production after tests on prototypes showed it met all the requirements of the Indonesian Air Force, the ministry says.
With an eye on the growing smallsat market, Arianespace has unveiled the first of a planned series of dedicated small satellite rideshare missions direct to geostationary orbit.
ROCKWELL COLLINS has $40.2m U.S. Air Force contract for training system support center operations for E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System Aircrew Training Device.
The first of 15 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band pods ordered by the Navy will be used to verify aircraft installation compliance, including mass properties and ground procedures.
The agency previously selected 13 cubesats to piggyback rides on the first SLS-Orion mission, an unmanned flight known as Artemis-1 that is expected to launch in 2021.
The U.S. Air Force agreed to accept deliveries of KC-46 aircraft last January after a two-year impasse on the condition that Boeing correct two technical deficiencies.
Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Inc., Northridge, California, is being awarded a $167,338,657 firm-fixed-price contract for 263 full-rate production Lot 8 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles.
A $23.8 million contract awarded on Aug. 2 by the Air Force Research Laboratory launches the service’s experiment with a laser intended to shoot down swarms of small unmanned air systems, along with salvos of mortars and rockets.
UPS said last month that it had applied to the FAA for a Part 135 air carrier certificate to operate the WakeMed delivery service, which uses the M2 quadcopter supplied by Matternet, of Mountain View, California.
Using computer vision and machine learning, the Zurich-based company is developing an autopilot for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, helicopters, heavy drones and other aircraft.
At $2,500 a month per satellite, LeoTrack is intended for use by all smallsat operators, from individual academic satellites to commercial constellations.
Austria’s Schiebel Group has formed a new subsidiary to market its Camcopter S-100 unmanned helicopter in the U.S. and named industry veteran Gretchen West to lead the company.
Only two months after government officials warned of a potentially year-long delay, the Russian military has completed the first flight of the Sukhoi S-70 Hunter unmanned assault aircraft, Russian news agencies reported on Aug 2. The flight lasted more than 20 min. before a successful landing, state news agency TASS reported, citing an official statement circulated by the Ministry of Defense.
A possibly design-related blockage of the cooling system in the GOES 17 weather sat is responsible for the degraded performance of the spacecraft’s primary instrument, the $100 million Advanced Baseline Image, an investigation shows.
Hanwha is offering a road-mobile variant of the KTSSM for export, even before the South Korean army deploys the short-range ballistic missile next year.
