USAF Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein has directed a one-day pause for all Air Force flying and maintenance wings to conduct a wing-level safety review.
Explore Mars Inc., finds urgency in a Mars sample return mission as well as new communications relay and reconnaissance assets in orbit around the red planet.
The USAF intends to award contracts to Lockheed and Northrop to build five sats that will form the basis of an interim space-based missile warning system.
India has built a prototype of the “Quadruple Canisterized Inclined Launcher” that will allow warships with space constraints to launch the BrahMos missile.
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Mission Systems of Fairfax, Virginia, a $9.7 million firm-fixed-price modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise options for the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (Sewip) Block 1B3 full-rate production, the Pentagon has announced. Sewip is an evolutionary acquisition and incremental development program to upgrade the existing AN/SLQ-32(V) electronic warfare system.
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The Pentagon has resumed accepting deliveries of F-35 aircraft from Lockheed Martin following an agreement on who would cover the cost of a production error.
BAE SYSTEMS and PRISMATIC are collaborating on solar-powered, high-altitude/long-endurance UAV called PHASA-35; first aircraft to be ready for flight tests in 2019.
A labor union representing nearly 600 United Launch Alliance (ULA) employees rejected a final contract offer and started the week by marching on picket lines.
The Canadian Space Agency has selected NanoRacks, LLC, for the launch and deployments of up to 15 small satellites from the ISS as part of a student initiative.
Raytheon will be a “key partner” in developing a 50-mi. unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) flight corridor in New York State, the company announced May 3.
BAE Systems is preparing for the potential rapid transition, from demonstration to production, of a low-cost optical seeker that will equip precision-guided munitions with the ability to navigate autonomously when GPS is denied and to automatically detect, identify and home onto fixed, moving and relocatable targets.
The U.S. State Department has approved a likely German purchase of six Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules airlifters through the Foreign Military Sales system.
NASA's SpaceX-contracted Dragon resupply mission capsule departed the International Space Station (ISS) and splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on May 5.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V blasted off from a fog-shrouded launchpad at Vandenberg AFB, California, on May 5 to send NASA’s InSight spacecraft and a pair of experimental cubesats on their way to Mars.
