For Arianespace, the mission is a milestone, since it is the 100th launch of an Ariane 5 since its inception in 1996. The two satellites are the 206th and 207th launched by the heavy-lift vehicle.
“Northrop Grumman intends to be a dominant player in the counter-hypersonics space or lead it,” Vice President of Missile Defense Solutions Kenn Todorov told Aerospace DAILY.
The U.S. Marine Corps is assessing various acquisition methods to purchase the Marine Air-Ground Task Force expeditionary unmanned aircraft system (MUX).
A NASA report foresees a human return to the lunar surface by the late 2020s with an evolving U.S. commercial and global partnership that opens the way to Mars.
The incident involving the Lockheed Martin-built, single-engine fighter resulted in no damage to the aircraft or injury to the pilot, says a spokesperson for the VFA-125 naval strike fighter squadron.
High-profile drone and software provider Airobotics of Israel has opened an office in Scottsdale, Arizona, that will become the startup’s global headquarters.
India’s national space agency is working to usher in an era of high-speed internet connectivity with the launch of three heavyweight comms satellites by 2020.
Sat tracking, data and comm provider Blue Sky Network has acquired Applied Satellite Engineering, a designer and manufacturer of advanced sat comm equipment.
NASA’s budget represents one half of one percent of the federal budget, Administrator Jim Bridenstine says. “If we had a full 1% of the federal budget you can imagine the impact we would have.”
ISS Commander Drew Feustel and astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor, both of NASA, are to command the station’s Canadian robot arm to grapple the Japanese cargo capsule upon rendezvous on Thursday, Sept. 27, at about 8 a.m. EDT.
L3 Technologies continues to invest in the unmanned maritime systems space, acquiring ASV Global, LLC, an unmanned surface vessel and autonomous vessel control systems company.
