The Nikkei newspaper reports Lockheed Martin is offering an improved version of the F-35 Lightning for Japan’s requirement for a fighter to deploy in the 2030s.
Failure of a Long March 5 launcher on the type’s second mission has dealt a possibly severe blow to China’s space program, at least casting doubt over the timing of planned missions that rely on the rocket.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $257m U.S. Navy contract for alternate mission equipment for lot 10 F-35 Lightning II for the U.S. military and international partners. BOEING has $70m Australian Ministry of Defense contract to sustain Australia’s C-17A Globemaster fleet. ASTRO AEROSPACE delivered mid-boom assemblies for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.
The Israeli defense ministry has completed a deal worth hundreds of millions of shekels to centralize its computer infrastructure to centralized data centers, prime contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) says in a statement. “This represents the largest technological tender in the history of the [Israeli Defense Force] and defense establishment,” according to the statement.
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The planned four-day test of World View's Stratollite high-altitude balloon over Arizona ended after 17 hr. due to a small leak in an altitude control system.
The council will convene a Users' Advisory Group composed of non-government representatives of industries and other persons involved in aeronautical and space activities, according to President Trump's executive order.
The agreement, signed in Brussels during a meeting of NATO defense ministers, comes as Britain and Norway pave the way for the introduction of the Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
Lockheed Martin Ventures, the venture capital arm of the Pentagon’s leading contractor, said it is making a “strategic investment” in nanosatellite provider Terran Orbital.
In the absence of top-level budget guidance from the House and Senate budget committees, House appropriators have added $800 million to NASA’s fiscal 2018 budget.
NASA must continue to invest in high-performance human spacecraft propulsion beyond Earth orbit if its exploration goals are to be realized, experts told House lawmakers Thursday.
The helium-filled balloon rose from its high desert launch site shortly after 9 a.m. EDT, following a delay to wait for favorable weather after a scrubbed attempt June 21.
The Inmarsat/Hellas Sat mission originally was allocated to SpaceX, but was switched to Arianespace due to delays in SpaceX’s manifest following the on-pad explosion of a Falcon 9 in September 2016.
The bill authorizes $631 billion for baseline military requirements compared to the $603 billion requested by the president, and another $65 billion for wartime needs.
The committee’s mark of the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill approves $700 billion in spending on the military, including $632 billion in the baseline budget and $8 billion for Department of Energy national security programs.
