Kirk Shireman, an 11-year NASA International Space Station (ISS) executive and former ISS deputy program manager, will succeed the agency’s Mike Suffredini as manager of the six-person orbiting science laboratory.
Islands and outcroppings in the South China Sea have become the center of territorial disputes for China and its neighbors, who have started staking claims through reclamation projects that U.S. officials say threaten the peace and security of the region
The U.S. Navy re-certified its deep-sea submarine rescue capability last month in an operational evaluation of crewmembers from the service’s Undersea Rescue Command (URC).
The remote, idyllic atmosphere of this tiny resort hamlet on the southern tip of Hainan Island belies its growing military importance in the South China Sea, especially for the Chinese submarines force, which continues to give U.S. Navy planners fits.
U.S. Chief of Naval Research (ONR) Rear Adm. Mat Winter officially opened the new Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global) office in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month.
Blood samples have survived a flight in a small unmanned aircraft, opening up the possibility of quick access to laboratory tests for health care workers at remote clinics in rural areas of developing nations that lack passable roads to dedicated labs.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden blames Congress for failing to fully fund NASA’s commercial crew program that is intended to restore the nation’s ability to send astronauts into orbit.
The inclusion of secondary smallsat payloads adds additional luster to the multi-billion-dollar SLS-Orion test flight and potential encouragement for researchers to push deeper into space using CubeSat technologies.
The NASA-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute is seeking more study proposals in areas of health concern associated with human deep-space exploration.
Russia continues to strengthen its positions in the Arctic region, as reflected in July when Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the country’s renewed naval doctrine.
Engineering development tests of modified Longbow Hellfire missiles for use on Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were successfully conducted in June, the U.S. Navy reports.
NEW DELHI—India and the U.S are working together to develop a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite – the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar), expected to be launched in 2021.
