The agency previously selected 13 cubesats to piggyback rides on the first SLS-Orion mission, an unmanned flight known as Artemis-1 that is expected to launch in 2021.
The U.S. Air Force agreed to accept deliveries of KC-46 aircraft last January after a two-year impasse on the condition that Boeing correct two technical deficiencies.
Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Inc., Northridge, California, is being awarded a $167,338,657 firm-fixed-price contract for 263 full-rate production Lot 8 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles.
A $23.8 million contract awarded on Aug. 2 by the Air Force Research Laboratory launches the service’s experiment with a laser intended to shoot down swarms of small unmanned air systems, along with salvos of mortars and rockets.
UPS said last month that it had applied to the FAA for a Part 135 air carrier certificate to operate the WakeMed delivery service, which uses the M2 quadcopter supplied by Matternet, of Mountain View, California.
Using computer vision and machine learning, the Zurich-based company is developing an autopilot for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles, helicopters, heavy drones and other aircraft.
At $2,500 a month per satellite, LeoTrack is intended for use by all smallsat operators, from individual academic satellites to commercial constellations.
Austria’s Schiebel Group has formed a new subsidiary to market its Camcopter S-100 unmanned helicopter in the U.S. and named industry veteran Gretchen West to lead the company.
Only two months after government officials warned of a potentially year-long delay, the Russian military has completed the first flight of the Sukhoi S-70 Hunter unmanned assault aircraft, Russian news agencies reported on Aug 2. The flight lasted more than 20 min. before a successful landing, state news agency TASS reported, citing an official statement circulated by the Ministry of Defense.
A possibly design-related blockage of the cooling system in the GOES 17 weather sat is responsible for the degraded performance of the spacecraft’s primary instrument, the $100 million Advanced Baseline Image, an investigation shows.
Hanwha is offering a road-mobile variant of the KTSSM for export, even before the South Korean army deploys the short-range ballistic missile next year.
Japan has lifted the grounding order on its Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning force that had been in place since immediately after one of the fighters crashed on April 9.
Russian arms trade agency Rosoboronexport confirmed this week it has approved the resale of two Ilyushin Il-76MF military transports from Jordan to Egypt.
Since 2013, the U.S. has accused Russia of violating the treaty by developing, testing and deploying a new cruise missile with a range greater than 500 km.
U.S. Navy investigators have begun an inquiry into the fatal crash of a Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet on July 31 during a low-level flying exercise near Death Valley, California.
Avionics companies will show off future cockpit concepts for U.S. Special Operations Command rotorcraft in September, the Sofwerx rapid acquisition office announced.
