NASA’s Glenn Research Center has the capacity to test advanced solar electric propulsion systems powerful enough to move cargo and habitats to Mars, with spin-offs that can improve the commercial satellite industry’s capabilities.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are planning a Jan. 15 spacewalk to restore the outpost’s solar power generation to full capacity and further efforts to establish a pair of docking ports for use by future U.S. commercial astronaut transportation providers Boeing and SpaceX.
Engineers at German Aerospace Center DLR attempted to contact the Rosetta mission’s Philae lander on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Jan. 10 in an effort to switch on the probe’s momentum wheel and change its position.
German Aerospace Center DLR and the European Space Agency are evaluating the cost of continuing support for the International Space Station beyond the end of the decade.
Korea Aerospace Industries will hold the system requirement review for the KF-X fighter program this month, kicking off full-scale development of the indigenous combat aircraft.
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne are negotiating the final details of a public-private “tipping-point” partnership designed to produce a low-cost propulsion system for CubeSats that uses non-toxic “green” propellant in lieu of hydrazine.
Chinese small unmanned aircraft manufacturer Ehang has unveiled a single-passenger, vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) autonomous air vehicle with a scaled-up multicopter configuration similar to its Ghostdrone quadrotor and other consumer UAVs.
Semiconductor manufacturer Intel is acquiring German multicopter unmanned aircraft and autopilot developer Ascending Technologies (Asctec), describing UAVs as “an important computing platform of the future.”
A U.K. think tank is calling for more government action to help prevent the nefarious use of remotely controlled air vehicles by terrorist and criminal groups.
A U.S. B-52 bomber conducted a low-level flight Jan. 9 in the vicinity of Osan, South Korea, in response to a recent nuclear test by North Korea, U.S. Pacific Command says.
NASA researchers report genetic and nutritional links to the vision changes experienced by astronauts assigned to live and work aboard the International Space Station.
NATO fighters performed 160 intercepts of Russian aircraft during Baltic Air Policing missions last year, the Lithuanian defense ministry has revealed.
The U.S. Navy and U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) certified the latest version of the Aegis combat system earlier this month for the service’s destroyer fleet.
India’s Reliance Defense Ltd. wants to establish a naval ship-building facility in the country at an estimated cost of 50 billion rupees ($748 million).
It appears China landed three aircraft earlier this month on a newly built airfield located on an artificial island over Kagitingan, the Pentagon confirms.
