The U.S. military is considering operationally activating the nine-story Sea-Based X-band radar currently fielded as a research and development asset in Hawaii as North Korea steps up its ballistic missile testing efforts.
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON—Fresh off the flight line, Navy pilots rave about the F-35’s advanced sensors, easy handling and ability to land perfectly on a fast-moving carrier essentially by itself.
NASA ground controllers overcame an unexpected obstruction as they issued commands to the International Space Station’s robot arm late Aug. 17 and early Aug. 18 to extract the first docking assembly for use by future U.S. commercial crew spacecraft from a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule and reposition the hardware at the front of the orbiting science lab.
Hybrid Air Vehicles CEO Stephen McGlennan says potential customers and financial institutions have been showing more interest in the capabilities of the giant Airlander 10 hybrid airship in the run-up to its first flight earlier this week.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded CSC Government Solutions LLC, of Fairview Heights, Illinois, an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with...
OSIRIS-REx—the first U.S.-led mission to attempt a roundtrip to an asteroid for the collection of a small sample of surface materials—promises to pay dividends for planetary defense advocates as well as scientists eager for clues to the origins of life on Earth
The Missile Defense Agency probably won’t push for a fleet of ballistic missile hunting and tracking UAVs independent of a high-power laser weapon for boost-phase destruction if directed energy technology does not keep pace, the agency’s director Vice Adm. James Syring says.
Lockheed Martin has called on the U.S. Army to continue collaborating with industry as it firms its requirements and acquisition plan for replacing or modernizing the Raytheon-built Patriot passive electronically scanned radar with gallium nitride (GaN)-based active array technology.
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $129,429,079 modification (P00047) to a foreign military sales contract W31P4Q-12-C-0265 for procurement of ...
The head of U.S. Strategic Command has again raised concerns about the testing of maneuvering hypersonic glide vehicles by America’s opponents as they try to counter the latest ballistic missile defense systems being fielded by the West.
The largest defense contractor in the world saw its share price drop roughly 3% on Aug. 16 after Lockheed Martin announced a lower final deal value for a business unit spinoff to information technology (IT) company Leidos.
An unmanned version of the U-2 Dragon Lady is among the list of platforms being considered by Lockheed Martin for the Missile Defense Agency’s stratospheric UAV-borne laser demonstrator program.
Roscosmos, the Russian state space corporation, has told its International Space Station partners that to save costs it may reduce from three to two the number of cosmonauts assigned full time to the six-person International Space Station
An uprated astronomy telescope built around a surplus National Reconnaissance Mirror has the potential to “significantly advance” scientific progress, particularly if it is launched early enough to work with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
The British defense ministry has signed a £184 million ($238 million) contract with missile manufacturer MBDA to begin production of a stockpile of new generation Asraam air-to-air missiles for the U.K.’s fleet of F-35s.
Facing the “tyranny of distance” in any future conflict with China, the U.S. Air Force is looking again at the value of high-speed platforms for surveillance and strike missions as well as affordable, responsive access to space.
