The contract appears to launch full-scale development of the KF-X with assistance from Indonesia. But it is unclear whether KAI can make much progress in 2016, since the defense ministry has secured very modest funding for the coming 12 months.
The Dec. 19 flyby was the last in a series of 22 close encounters between Cassini and Enceladus that have revealed a small, ice-covered, geologically active world with a global ocean.
Sustainment costs for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor are likely to be higher than those of previous aircraft performing similar missions, but the design differences of the aircraft make accurate comparisons difficult.
New Zealand-based space launch company Rocket Lab has announced the start of construction of an orbital launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, an outlying spit of land on the east coast of the country’s North Island.
The U.S. Air Force is reassessing its launch processing procedures with an eye toward dramatically increasing launches at its Eastern Range, according to Brig. Gen.
The U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to further develop high-energy laser weapons to better defend Navy ships against attack, the company confirms.
Buffeted by this month’s Pentagon directive to cut its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and frigate fleets and a U.S. Government Accountability Office report questioning the fleet’s lethality and survivability, the U.S. Navy is spotlighting the LCS 3 USS Forth Worth’s successful year at sea in the Western Pacific.
The U.S. Navy has awarded Austal USA a $51.7 million contract for additional work on its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) line, as well as future frigate work.
Russia’s upgraded MS-1 Progress resupply capsule carried out an automated docking with the International Space Station early Dec. 23, delivering 5.8 tons of propellant, crew supplies, spare parts and research hardware.
The U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (Navcent) Task Force 50 is now under the command of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which now plans and conducts coalition strike operations in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy says.
The guided-missile destroyer DDG 90 USS Chafee returned to Pearl Harbor earlier this month from an independent deployment to the U.S. 3rd, 4th and 7th Fleet areas of operations.
NASA has scuttled plans for a March 2016 launch of the multinational Mars InSight lander because of an inability to resolve a small vacuum leak in a key European instrument.
Virgin Galactic is expected to complete assembly of the second SpaceShipTwo suborbital space vehicle in time for external painting to take place over the holiday break.
New Zealand-based space launch company Rocket Lab has announced the start of construction of an orbital launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, an outlying spit of land on the east coast of the country’s North Island.
