Barely a few years into making significant digital investments, some A&D executives already may be at risk of losing patience with the changes, a study says.
Certifiable flight and ground control software for UAVs that is based on a system developed by NASA for spacecraft has been flight tested by Windhover Labs.
During a 1997 flyby of Jupiter moon Europa, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft appears to have flown through an eruptive watery plume over 600 mi. long, a study says.
The rapid emergence of urban air mobility (UAM) and eVTOL vehicles has taken NASA by surprise, but the agency is developing plans for a “Grand Challenge” that would help “raise the water level” across the nascent industry.
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RAYTHEON has $242m U.S. Navy foreign military sales contract for Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 guided missile round pack, missile ordnance alterations and spares for Qatar, and $7.4m contract for RAM upgraded Mk. 31 Guided Missile Weapon System Improvement program.
Sierra Nevada/Embraer’s A-29 Super Tucano and Textron Aviation’s AT-6B Wolverine are in the second phase of the U.S. Air Force’s Light Attack Experiment.
Darpa video shows flight tests of an unmanned-aircraft airborne launch and recovery system conducted by Dynetics in the second phase of the Gremlins program.
Mark Geyer, a former deputy director of NASA’s Johnson Center and Orion program manager, will replace Ellen Ochoa as director of the Houston field center.
Cybersecurity and info assurance are recognized as hurdles to reaching the promises of additive manufacturing, but a new partnership might help A&D industries.
Orbital ATK and IMI Systems have announced a teaming accord in which Orbital will produce and supply a version of IMI’s 500-lb. MPR500 for the U.S. Air Force.
In development since 2013, the 4-lb. (1.8-kg) Mars Helicopter will be a second major technology demonstration conducted during the Mars 2020 mission, which is scheduled for launch in July 2020 and a February 2021 landing.
Leaders of specialty products provider Esterline Technologies, which provides components for a number of commercial aircraft programs, have indicated they do not see other immediate troubled assets that should be sold off as the company recently did with the Kirkhill elastomers unit to TransDigm Group.
Researchers will try to take potentially far-reaching steps in a range of scientific fields with the next resupply mission to the International Space Station.
