Last May, the U.S. Air Force loaded up three Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit stealth bombers with 30,000-lb. earth-penetrating bombs and sent them on a test mission against a single target at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
The new Northrop Grumman division housing Orbital ATK will be called Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems and will be led by Blake Larson, currently Orbital’s chief operating officer.
Arianespace suffered from two mishaps Jan. 25 in its first launch of 2018, when the Ariane 5 rocket lost its telemetry link with the ground and placed both of its payload satellites into the wrong orbit.
The aircraft arrived at the RTAF’s Takhli base in Nakhon Sawan province, 240 km (140 mi) northwest of Bangkok on Jan. 25, 17 days after they left South Korea for the ferry flight.
An amateur astronomer looking for the lost Zuma satellite instead found a NASA science satellite known as IMAGE, which disappeared from radar tracking on Dec. 18, 2005.
Stephane Israel, Arianespace CEO, announced the anomaly at 6:24 p.m. EST, 64 min. after what appeared to be a flawless liftoff with the SES-14 and Al Yah 3 telecommunications satellites.
The technology transition program, an Air Force budget line that funds advanced component development and prototyping, has grown exponentially since being established in fiscal 2014 and that trend is set to continue.
General Dynamics looks to ramp up corporate investments across its aviation and defense businesses, according to company chiefs, following expectations of growth in its Gulfstream and naval shipbuilding work.
Wall Street analysts peppered Raytheon Chairman and CEO Tom Kennedy and CFO Toby O’Brien with questions Jan. 25 after subsidiary Forcepoint reported a loss of $8 million in the fourth quarter of 2017.
The production of this Cold War-era aircraft was suspended in 2008, but on Jan. 25 the defense ministry placed a new order with United Aircraft Corp. for 10 more airframes.
The U.S. Air Force has confirmed that the Afghan Air Force will receive 10 fixed-wing AC-208B “Eliminator” surveillance and strike aircraft from Orbital ATK.
The U.S. Government Accountability Office says FAA and the Pentagon still have not approved any fixes to address security and operational risks to military aircraft from transmitting their position via ADS-B Out.
The U.S. Navy has tapped Orbital ATK to develop the first anti-radiation missile designed for internal carriage on the carrier-based F-35C Joint Strike Fighter.
