Participants in a NASA-hosted workshop have narrowed from eight to three the number of prime-candidate landing sites for the agency’s next rover mission to Mars.
BAE SYSTEMS has $26.7m U.S. Navy contract to definitize USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) fiscal 2017 phased maintenance availability undefinitized contract action.
To “dig out” from the U.S. military’s readiness problems, the vice chiefs of the services and more than a few lawmakers want to scrap Budget Control Act spending caps on defense and nondefense spending.
The lobbying group for France’s aerospace industry has released annual performance numbers earlier than planned, reacting to recent negative comments about the contribution of the industry to France’s 2016 balance of trade.
A panel of aerospace and defense analysts has proposed ditching the U.S. Air Force’s Boeing 747-8-based Air Force One in favor of the Northrop Grumman B-21 stealth bomber, or a less-costly militarized Boeing 737 fleet.
NASA’s embrace of cloud computing has been slowed by weaknesses that leave some data stored in cloud environments at risk, an inspector general's audit says.
Israel’s Gilat Satellite Networks is to develop an embedded electronically scanned antenna for Ka-band inflight connectivity under a joint project with Airbus.
Despite facing a lawsuit seeking to block procurement, Darpa has selected Space Systems Loral (SSL) as its commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) demonstration.
Orbital ATK has filed a lawsuit against Darpa to halt a program it alleges would unlawfully subsidize the creation of a commercial competitor to the satellite servicing capability it is developing with private investment.
Leonardo has begun flight trials of the third prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor as it targets certification of the high-speed rotary-wing aircraft by 2018.
NASA’s Satellite Servicing Products Division is counting on SpaceX’s CRS 10 resupply mission to the International Space Station to help kick off two years of autonomous rendezvous and docking system technology development.
The European Space Agency’s Aeolus science satellite is ready for the two remaining phases of tests that will ensure it can measure “slices” of winds from a 320-km orbit.
Engineers at FAA’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) want to see how a Falcon 9 test on Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center works out before clearing the SpaceX launcher for its first flight from the historic pad. George Nield, associate administrator for commercial space transportation, said Wednesday there are a number of procedural issues as well with the first use of the leased NASA facility for a commercial mission.
Of the 263 MV-22s already delivered, about one in four on average is structurally different in some way, causing headaches for maintainers and upsetting the parts supply chain.
