The U.S. Air Force is eyeing more powerful, fuel-efficient engines for extended range and increased stealth as key requirements for its next air superiority fighter.
The last of NASA’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellites (TDRS) is poised for liftoff on Aug. 18, as the agency looks ahead to transitioning responsibility for its space communications network to commercial systems in the mid 2020s.
Only specific portions of Boeing’s current Ground-Based Midcourse Defense contract will be extended beyond the expiration date in December 2018, while MDA takes over lead systems integrator responsibilities.
Russia staked claim to the first Earth-orbiting 3D-printed small satellite Aug. 17 following deployment of the Tomsk TPU-120 by cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin outside the International Space Station.
The U.S. Navy is expected to soon award a contract to Raytheon to integrate a seeker into Tomahawk missiles to enable the weapon to strike a moving target at sea.
India is planning to launch its eighth Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft in the last week of August, an Indian Space Research Organization official says.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems is in the early stages of negotiating the potential sale of as many as 90 Predator C Avenger remotely piloted aircraft to an unidentified international customer.
Newly revealed satellite images of potential aircraft debris have boosted Australian researchers’ confidence about where Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 crashed more than three years ago.
Raytheon wants to defend Hawaii using “full-caliber” Standard Missile-3 Block 2A exoatmospheric interceptors, paired with its scalable Air and Missile Defense Radar.
The U.S. Marine Corps prides itself on being the “tip of the spear,” but in East Asia, the “Green Knights” of Marine Fighter Attack Sqdn.-121 are more like the tip of the iceberg, as the first of dozens of war-ready Lockheed Martin F-35 squadrons being stationed in the region over the next decade.
“Just as shared, electric, and autonomous vehicles are redefining ground transportation, urban air mobility is poised for massive disruption over the next five years," according to aerospace incubator Starburst.
The University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute, Los Angeles, California, has been awarded an $8,236,324 cost-reimbursement modification.
“We want to understand how to predict and monitor solar eruptions that affect us on Earth,” said astronomer Jay Pasachoff with Williams College in Massachusetts.
The U.S. is the top-ranked nation for aerospace manufacturing, and Georgia is the top state within it, according to the PricewaterhouseCoopers 2017 Aerospace Manufacturing Attractiveness Rankings index.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is confident based on design analysis and cost modeling that the Kratos-built XQ-58A Valkyrie will meet the objective range of 3,000 mi. and align with cost targets of $2-3 million per unit.
Additive manufacturing provider Sciaky has chosen Siemens’ product life cycle management software to support its Electronic Beam Additive Manufacturing technology.
