Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are bracing for 35 min. of terror as the $1.1 billion Juno mission spacecraft enters polar orbit over Jupiter on July 4.
A bill to bolster support for NASA’s aeronautics research has been introduced in Congress even as lawmakers prove reluctant to support a boost in funding sought in fiscal 2017 to launch an ambitious 10-year program of X-plane flight demonstrators.
NASA is ethically obligated to provide its astronauts with lifetime health care, current and former U.S. spaceflight record holders and medical experts told the House Science space subcommittee June 15.
Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab says it is ready to partner with India’s state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) to upgrade India’s indigenously-developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).
As the U.S. Marine Corps continues to develop its own new large UAV, dubbed “MUX,” the service sees the Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout as a good short-term gap-filler, says Col. John Barranco, the service’s unmanned systems cell lead.
One of three engines firing to slow the stage’s descent to SpaceX's unmanned landing barge apparently didn’t deliver enough power, triggering a crash, company founder Elon Musk said in a tweet.
NASA’s Spacecraft Fire Experiment, Saffire-1, appears to have burned for several minutes June 14, long enough to generate thousands of images for researchers.
Due to safety concerns about nearby urban areas—as well as increased public awareness following last year's Shoreham Airshow crash—the Red Arrows team will be limited to flypasts only.
KUALA LUMPUR—Deliveries of Malaysia’s four Airbus A400M Atlas airlifters should be complete this year, following acceptance of the third aircraft June 9.
U.S. Air Force secretary Deborah Lee James has again voiced her concern about maintaining competition within the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program until a suitable substitute for the Russian RD-180 rocket engine is available.
Forecasting costly and potentially deadly high-energy solar storms could improve with the deployment of small-spacecraft constellations, some experts say.
Discussions are ongoing about what type of penalty should be levied on Boeing for missing a contractual timeline to deliver 18 operational KC-46A Pegasus tankers.
