Google is to continue with development of a solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft for Internet delivery, despite confirming the prototype crashed on its first flight in New Mexico.
Mars One is pledging new transparency in its increasingly scrutinized, three-year-old, investor and reality television-based campaign to establish a small but growing permanent human settlement on the Red Planet in the late 2020s.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden is once again warning that, unless its commercial crew efforts are fully funded in fiscal 2016, the agency will miss its 2017 deadline of using U.S. spacecraft to deliver astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS).
BAE Systems has been awarded a £1.7 million ($2.58 million) contract to study the feasibility of a common weapon launcher capable of dropping multiple air-to-ground weapons from a single pylon.
The U.S. and its Asia-Pacific allies – like Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Thailand, and the Philippines – need to change their relationships to match the times, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter says.
Scott Seymour, president and CEO of Aerojet Rocketdyne, is retiring and will be succeeded by Eileen Drake, the company’s chief operating officer. The changes take effect June 1, the company announced.
The guided-missile cruiser CG 62 USS Chancellorsville departed from San Diego recently for Yokosuka, Japan, where the ship will join the U.S. 7th Fleet’s Forward Deployed Naval Forces as the first forward-deployed ship fitted with the latest Aegis Baseline 9 combat system.
The Planetary Society’s LightSail-A mission planners have plotted a possible June 2 early deployment of their novel Mylar solar propulsion technology after re-establishing contact with their tumbling, software-hobbled 3U CubeSat.
When it comes to securing Pentagon contracts, it all comes down to making the best proposal, and a top Navy deals evaluator says the key is this: write it right.
In light of the recent mishaps involving U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft, the spotlight is shifting squarely onto maintenance issues caused or exacerbated by the lack of funding due to sequestration and other funding concerns.
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Despite NASA’s intent to find multiple deep-space missions for the Space Launch System (SLS) currently in development, agency Administrator Charles Bolden has reaffirmed that there will be no quick decision on using the rocket for its planned mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa.
Pentagon procurement chief Frank Kendall says every F-35 partner nation has expressed interest in participating in a massive block buy of the Lockheed Martin jets to start in fiscal 2018.
Stealth and cost are among the reasons why the U.S. Navy’s new Ohio Replacement ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) is larger than its predecessor despite having two-thirds the weapon capacity, according to Adm. Joe Tofalo, Navy director of undersea warfare.
Engineers at NASA’s Stennis Space Center tested a modified RS-25 Space Shuttle Main Engine (SSME) for 450 sec. on May 28, marking the restart of hot-fire testing for the planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) after a five-month hiatus for test-stand modifications.
The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is sponsoring research to better understand the motions, forces and pressures generated by waves on boats with high-speed planing hulls.
With China still smarting from recent U.S. reconnaissance flights over disputed territories in the South China Sea, America is bolstering its ties with regional partners.
ARIANESPACE launched DirecTV-15, SKY México-1 broadcast satellites May 27 aboard Ariane 5 from Kourou, French Guiana. NORTHROP GRUMMAN will unveil new airborne sensor system June 2, bringing infrared search/track (IRST) to U.S. tactical/transport aircraft. BOEING and TERMA A/S signed $15m in contracts for work on Boeing commercial/defense products, incl. 777, CH-47 Chinook. LOCKHEED MARTIN has $72m Huntington Ingalls Industries contract to provide C4ISR system for U.S. Coast Guard cutter Midgett.
Orbital Alliant Techsystems Inc., previously known as Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC of Fort Worth, has been awarded a not to exceed $26.1 million firm-fixed-price contract for support of the Lebanon Cessna 208B Caravan Program, the U.S. Air Force announced May 28. The contractor will provide one commercial-off-the-shelf Cessna 208B Caravan with a Garmin 1000 baseline glass cockpit, avionics package and Pratt & Whitney PT6A-140 turboprop engine.
As controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory here wrapped up a round of hazard-avoidance imagery with the nuclear-powered New Horizons Pluto probe, the mission’s long-standing science team assembled to begin their final setup for the July 14 flyby of the dwarf planet and its moons.
