NASA’s planned return to the Moon with astronauts nurture a range of technologies and capabilities needed to establish an Antarctic-like field station on Mars, according to a recent exploration workshop.
The new site will make 100 actuation system components for 737 and 767-family aircraft using raw materials sourced in the UK, the company announced as it opened the plant Oct. 25.
The Russian aircraft industry went through another round of consolidation Oct. 25 as the country’s aircraft manufacturing conglomerate United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) fell under control of industrial giant Rostec.
Boeing Global Services increased revenue 14% in the third quarter (Q3) to $4.1 billion, and the strong environment combined with the folding in of parts distributor KLX led the company to raise full-year revenue guidance to $16 billion-$16.5 billion.
SpaceX has signed two new commercial customers for Falcon Heavy launches, while competitor United Launch Alliance (ULA) has nabbed a sole-source Delta IV Heavy launch contract from the National Reconnaissance Office.
“We see T-X as a market for about 2,600 aircraft in addition to ground-based trainers and other support and services,” Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg says.
NASA is soliciting input from U.S. companies on requirements for commercially re-supplying the human-tended, lunar-orbiting Gateway it plans to begin assembling in 2022.
Rather than NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin, who were aboard the aborted Oct. 11 flight from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Roscosmos will fly the previously scheduled crew.
The FAA will evaluate Iridium’s new Certus satellite broadband service before approving it for Future Air Navigation System (FANS)-based communications between pilots and air traffic controllers in oceanic airspace.
The 18-month, €40 million ($46 million) study will examine the architecture and technologies required for the successor ship to the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle.
India has awarded a $777 million contract to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to supply the maritime version of its Barak 8 air and missile defense systems for seven ships of the Indian navy.
The Boeing Co., Layton, Utah, has been awarded a $55,567,613 undefinitized, firm-price incentive-fee contract, for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Cryptography Upgrade Increment II production.
