AEROJET ROCKETDYNE passed critical design review for LOCKHEED MARTIN Orion spacecraft’s jettison motor and crew module reaction control system, enabling Aerojet to start hardware fabrication for Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), launching no earlier than 2018.
Russian cruise missile strikes launched from the Caspian Sea into Syrian territory mark an end to a 25-year edge the U.S. has had in terms of precision weapons, according to retired Gen. Jack Keane, the former Army vice chief of staff. “The Russians have had this capability, and they’re obviously using it,” Keane, now chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, said during an Oct. 8 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “This technological advantage that we have had is gone.”
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Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Aviation Oct. 7, FAA Deputy Administrator Michael Whitaker said the technology will detect radio signals between the UAV and its operator within 5 mi. of an airport.
The prospects of Indonesia extending its participation in South Korea’s KF-X fighter program have risen, with the defense ministry in Seoul saying negotiations for a further partnership are underway.
A network of Martian lakes and stream deltas, estimated at well over three billion years old, once dominated the floor of the nearly 90-mi.-wide Gale Crater, according to findings from researchers associated with NASA’s Curiosity Rover.
“We are working together bilaterally with Spain, in a partnership that gives us greater ability to react swiftly and effectively to a crisis,” Carter says.
U.S. space exploration planners say the next big piece of human hardware needed on the road to Mars is a modular habitat that could be stationed near the Moon and visited by early manned Orion capsule missions.
The British government has outlined plans to accelerate the widespread use of unmanned aerial vehicles, and potentially to open non-segregated airspace for use by such systems by the end of the decade.
South Korea is moving toward buying 12 Lockheed Martin S-3 Vikings, ex-U.S. Navy aircraft that would form a second-tier force to boost the country’s anti-submarine capability.
Small special-operations teams that want to leave no trace are key customers for the system, as are disaster-relief teams in need of delivery vehicles that do not require unpacking and transporting.
Britain will purchase an upgraded derivative of General Atomics’ MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft to meet its newly re-named Protector program requirements.
Lockheed Martin is looking ahead to U.S. Air Force and Navy directed-energy weapons requirements as it begins manufacture of a 60-kW electric-fiber-laser system for a U.S. Army demonstration.
Despite carriers' continued utility, the U.S. Navy needs to revisit the way it develops and uses the nuclear-powered vessels and the convoys that protect them, the Hudson Institute says.
