NASA should begin strategic investments necessary for the science community to reap the most from the extraterrestrial samples returned from future planetary science missions, an NAS assessment says.
NASA’s Insight probe is deploying instruments on Mars, starting with the seismometer that will help expand understanding of the planet’s interior structure.
Weather bedeviled SpaceX’s second attempt this week to launch the first GPS III spacecraft, dubbed “Vespucci,” for the U.S. Air Force aboard a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral.
AVIATION WEEK NETWORK estimates that of the 15,902 western-designed, rotary-wing aircraft in military service at the end of 2018, 14,604 (91.8%) were produced by just 10 prime contractors.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has submitted his resignation a day after President Donald Trump announced plans to withdraw military forces from Syria.
Nearly four months after Boeing’s victory in a competition for the MQ-25 contract, the president of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. warns that the U.S. Navy’s selection criteria could drive medium-sized companies out of the running for such programs in the future.
After the launch of the CSO-1 military Earth observation sat, French Defense Minister Florence Parly emphasized the need for sovereignty in access to space.
Flights to and from London Gatwick Airport in the UK are being deliberately disrupted by UAVs, more commonly known as drones, operating in the vicinity.
The U.S. Navy and Huntington Ingalls Industries have reached an accord on a two-ship aircraft carrier buy, but a deputy defense secretary is holding up the deal.
