A hypersonic projectile fired by an electromagnetic railgun set a new distance record during a March test, flying 109 nm at a speed around Mach 5, a U.S. Navy official said on April 6.
Airbus, the prime contractor for the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer probe, has started a series of critical tests on the spacecraft due for launch in April 2023.
The UK’s Ministry of Defense has renewed a support contract with Leonardo Helicopters to sustain the Royal Navy and British Army’s fleet of AW159 Wildcat helicopters.
The Blue Origin and Sierra Space-led consortium developing the Orbital Reef commercial space station says it is on track to conduct the preliminary design review of the low Earth orbit outpost in 2023 following completion of the systems requirements review.
The helicopter is a self-funded project between Changhe Aircraft Industry (Group) Corporation and the China Helicopter Research and Development Institute, both
South Korea’s Doosan Mobility Innovation (DMI) has secured a 27 billion won ($22 million) investment, primarily for the development of cargo drones powered by hydrogen fuel cells.
Astranis Space Technologies plans to launch four of its MicroGEO communication satellites into orbit at once aboard a dedicated SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in 2023.
The funds will be siphoned into development of the three critical technologies underlying its business case: a new rocket engine, the aircraft shape and leading-edge cooling.
The U.S. Space Force needs to transform how it can serve what Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall says is a “no-fail” mission in light of recent tests by both China and Russia.
NASA is looking beyond the planned April 8 launch of Axiom Space’s Ax-1 private astronaut mission to the International Space Station to resume the Artemis I Wet Dress Rehearsal (WDR) at Kennedy Space Center, which has been scrubbed twice so far this week due to issues with the Mobile Launch Platform.
Fresh off unveiling its partnership with Silicon Valley venture capital firm Shield Capital, L3Harris Technologies announced a new internal innovation office, the Agile Development Group, to meet Pentagon demands to provide advanced technology products and offerings quicker.
As Russian forces began to substantially build up on the border with Ukraine, the U.S. intelligence community went to commercial satellite imagery providers with a favor to ask.
The Space Development Agency’s upcoming Tranche 0 Transport Layer will be the military’s communications backbone, and the agency is planning a series of exercises with each service’s Joint All Domain Command and Control efforts, including the U.S. Navy’s highly secretive Project Overmatch.
Rocket Lab will attempt its first midair capture of a returning Electron booster later this month, a key step in the company’s quest to turn what was an expendable small satellite launcher into a partly reusable booster.
The Space Development Agency wants to ensure that all bidders will have an equal shot at awards under the upcoming Tranche 1 Tracking Layer decision, though another recent SDA award has shown the “optics” of incumbents getting a leg up.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei says his U.S. record-setting 355-day mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will help provide valuable insights into the physical and mental challenges of future human expeditions to Mars and other deep space destinations.
DARPA has confirmed new details of a previously secret test of the Lockheed Martin version of the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, a scramjet-powered cruise missile demonstrator.
