The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 3USS Fort Worth departed its maintenance and logistics hub in Singapore on April 30 after a five-day preventative maintenance availability (PMAV) and a two-week repair availability (RAV), U.S. Navy officials say.
A panel of cybersecurity experts is expected to report back to the FAA by mid-2016 on whether the agency should issue new guidance or aircraft certification rules to prevent the intentional hacking of aircraft avionics systems, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Lawmakers on the House Science Committee took a deep divot out of NASA’s Earth-science budget request April 30 in what Democratic members of the Republican-controlled panel called an “ideological” attempt to thwart research into the human causes of climate change.
Russia’s unsuccessful Progress 59 International Space Station resupply mission spacecraft is expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere within two weeks, according to April 30 NASA estimates.
NASA’s out-of-fuel Messenger mission spacecraft crashed into the cratered far-side terrain of the planet Mercury late April 30, as predicted, carving a new depression estimated at 50 ft. in length in a region also marked by past lava flows.
Saab considers the design of the new A26 submarine to be “mature” after four years of work, and is in the final stages of selecting suppliers for the boat’s major subsystems.
A Lockheed Martin/Kaman K-Max helicopter has airlifted a simulated casualty in a demonstration of unmanned air and ground vehicles collaborating to enable medical evacuation.
The suborbital human spacecraft rose to an altitude of 307,000 ft. over West Texas on April 29, with a “perfect” first developmental flight of the crew capsule, but loss of the reusable cryogenic booster to a hydraulic system failure.
India has made further progress toward the goal of putting heavy satellites into orbit with the successful testing of an indigenous cryogenic rocket engine, a senior space official says.
France has garnered its third export order for the Rafale combat jet in as many months with a commitment from Qatar to purchase at least 24 of the Dassault Aviation aircraft, an agreement that eases pressure on French defense spending.
A camera aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has started generating tantalizing views of Pluto rotating on its sharply tilted axis, presenting patches of bright and dark material as it spins around a pole that appears to be covered with a cap of ice.
Amid a growing consensus in the U.S. government that space assets – commercial, civil or defense – are no longer safe in orbit, the U.S. Air Force and six top commercial operators are establishing a first-of-a-kind pilot program to improve data exchange among them.
An extra $5 billion set aside in the U.S. Air Force’s black and white budget plan for fiscal 2016 is largely dedicated to projects for shoring up and protecting space assets, says Air Force Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, military deputy to the service’s procurement czar.
Along with another $1 billion for the F-35, the HASC proposes adding $1.15 billion to buy 12 additional F/A-18 Super Hornets and $682.7 million for the A-10 Thunderbolt II, which the U.S. Air Force seeks to retire.
Russia’s troubled Progress 59 cargo spacecraft is unable to dock with the International Space Station and will make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, U.S. and Russian flight controllers told the orbiting lab’s six-member crew on April 29..
Set to launch on an Atlas V from Cape Canaveral on May 20, the fourth flight of the mysterious X-37B testbed will include a Hall-thruster experiment designed to test modifications to the AEHF satellite thrusters that are designed to improve performance.
An air defense missile system is at the top of the Swedish navy’s wish list of new capabilities for its Visby-class stealth corvettes, service chief of staff Rear Adm. Jan Thornquist said here on April 29.
