Engineers at Millennium Space Systems have started integrating the spacecraft bus that will host an experimental Overhead Persistent Infrared sensor for the U.S. Air Force.
India is planning to deploy electric propulsion technology to power satellites that will allow them to carry more transponders by saving weight on chemical propellants.
National Intelligence Director James Clapper has drawn a new distinction between intelligence satellite images and the intelligence products that are derived from those images.
India is planning to deploy electric propulsion technology to power satellites that will allow them to carry more transponders by saving weight on chemical propellants.
Once the development phase of the contract has been completed in 2018, the program will transition into a modernization program worth more than $50 billion, focused on cost reduction.
The need to provide the proper air defense for carrier strike groups is the driving force behind the U.S. Navy’s cruiser modernization plan, which sidelines the ships for some time.
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, four women – a flight controller, scientist, medical doctor and aeronautical engineer – are simulating the most dynamic phases of a notional 715-day roundtrip mission to an asteroid.
German aerospace center DLR is teaming with Stanford University to test solutions to the familiar but often tense communications blackout that occurs when manned spacecraft re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
