Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to base a new deep-space habitat concept on the cargo module it is developing to mount behind the Dream Chaser reusable mini-shuttle.
The Indian Space Research Organization is polling scientists “to come up with proposals for carrying out more substantive scientific experiments” on its second Mars probe.
Equipping South Korean destroyers with SM-3s would be the latest in a series of measures in which Seoul and Washington are strongly reinforcing the country’s defenses against a growing North Korean ballistic-missile threat.
If the Pentagon is forced to operate under a stopgap spending measure for an extended period, funding for Northrop Grumman to engineer and develop the B-21 will be capped at fiscal 2016 levels.
As the Pentagon considers pulling the plug on Raytheon’s troubled GPS ground-control system, the company says it is focused on completing key milestones and controlling cost by staying on schedule.
Orbital ATK and NASA have delayed the first flight of the company’s re-engined Antares launch vehicle until late September to accommodate traffic at the International Space Station and give engineers more time to prepare.
Embraer plans to reduce its workforce through a “voluntary dismissal program” for employees in Brazil in light of a challenging global aerospace environment.
Instead of the ammo work being a breakeven project for Orbital as expected, the company has since learned it will lead to a $400 million operating loss.
The German army has increased the availability of its Tiger combat helicopters, which could be deployed in support of United Nations operations in Mali.
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, Missouri, has been awarded a maximum $640,100,000 undefinitized contractual action delivery order (TH05) against a five-year base contract.
The Kuwaiti government has thrown Airbus Helicopters’ troubled H225 helicopter an urgently needed lifeline by purchasing 30 military versions of the aircraft.
While the U.S. Marine Corps is starting to see overall improvement in aircraft readiness, the service still has quite a bit to work to do across the spectrum of its aviation programs, according to Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. Robert Neller.
U.S. Navy pilots got the chance to practice sling-load external lifting operations with MH-53 Sea Dragons during recent exercises at Fort Drum, New York.
Boeing has been awarded a $60.8 million U.S. Navy contract to bring the Increment 3 Block 2 capabilities of the P-8A Poseidon Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft through preliminary and critical design review.
Under a launch-for-data-exchange contract, NASA will launch Lockheed Martin’s SkyFire 6U CubeSat on a lunar science trajectory as part of the agency’s Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
Lockheed Martin sees the follow-on as a potential opening for its Dual Mode Plus tail kit in the dual-model bomb market dominated by Boeing’s Laser JDAM.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has U.S. Navy contract to begin work on second Japanese E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. First Japanese E-2D is due for 2018 delivery. RAYTHEON has $523m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract option to produce, test and deliver 47 Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB interceptors for testing and deployment.
