Despite ongoing strikes that have forced Arianespace to suspend launches indefinitely, a ViaSat executive says he is "confident we’ll have ViaSat-2 in service by the end of the year."
UNITED LAUNCH SERVICES LLC has $146.5m U.S. Air Force contract for launch vehicle production services, including support of an Atlas V 551, 5M Payload Fairing 9-ft. Plug and transportation, through Dec. 12, 2020. LOCKHEED MARTIN has $1.6b U.S. Army contract for the Counter Fire Target Acquisition Radar System full-rate production and deployment through March 29, 2022.
If the thought of a delivery UAV landing in the yard raises safety and noise concerns, Advanced Tactics Inc. has demonstrated an alternative: a small unmanned aircraft that lands and drives up to the door with no propellers turning. The Torrance, California-based company has conducted the first package-delivery test with its Panther Air/Ground Robot. The vehicle landed in an open clearing away from buildings and people, then drove along the sidewalk and up to the test customer’s doorstep. Carrying a 5-lb.
Hybrid Enterprises, Lockheed Martin’s reseller of its LMH-1 Hybrid Airship, has signed an agreement to transport bulk liquid helium from sites in Africa.
Description : Sikorsky’s S-70 family of medium helicopters includes a series of maritime variants, including several with anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilty.
United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas V rocket by about one-third and will continue to drive down costs amid mounting competition from SpaceX.
A multinational team of researchers studying data from NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite believe they have identified two major warnings signs that together trigger destructive space weather events.
India’s state-run space agency has partnered with a local defense equipment maker to develop two spare Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft.
L3 Technologies has joined the race to provide unmanned underwater technology to the U.S. Navy with the acquisition of OceanServer Technology for an undisclosed amount.
China’s space organizations are beginning to plan science missions beyond Mars, even as its engineers prepare to return samples from the Moon to Earth this year, and from Mars by 2030.
France's $1.2 billion plan to invest in French Guiana has been deemed insufficient by the protesters whose strikes have brought Arianespace launches at Kourou’s spaceport to a halt.
BlackSky Spectra is enlarging its network to include a fleet of additional Airbus satellites to make it “the largest network of high-resolution sensors accessible from an online catalog."
The new three-star deputy chief of staff for space will serve as an advocate for space on the Air Staff, which the Air Force hopes will speed decision making and increase responsiveness to emerging threats.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $273.5m Missile Defense Agency (MDA) contract for MDA Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) Lot 9 Interceptors and $11.8m MDA contract for Thaad spares for United Arab Emirates. ROCKWELL COLLINS has $142.4m U.S Navy contract for procurement of the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II through November 2022.
