NASA has decided it has enough data from a series of launchpad tanking tests on the Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule to return the stack to the Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building and begin preparations for launch.
Launched on last month’s SpaceX Transporter 5 rideshare mission, a small satellite is allowing Blue Canyon Technologies to demonstrate a streamlined method of operation.
The U.S. House Appropriations commerce, justice and science subcommittee has marked up a $25.45 billion NASA fiscal 2023 budget measure that would provide less than the $25.97 billion requested by the White House but more than the $24.04 billion the space agency received for the current fiscal year.
The Taiwan Navy has grounded all of its Sikorsky S-70C(M) helicopter fleet after one crashed at Zuoying Naval Base on June 22, leaving four injured, including one critically.
Two clear winners emerged from a barrage of fighters orders between May 2021 and May 2022, leaving the outcome of pending orders in India more important than ever.
Four mystery satellites accompanied the Globalstar FM-15 communications satellite into orbit, data posted on the 18th Space Defense Sqdn.’s Space-Track.org website show.
The Space Development Agency has issued a solicitation for the design, development and deployment of its Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System satellite constellation.
After having said recently the first flight of an Ariane 6 medium- to heavy-lift launcher will not take place until 2023, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher has announced details will not be discussed publicly until July 13.
The U.S. Navy and U.S. Central Command have ended the RQ-4 Global Hawk Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator mission after 13 years in the Middle East.
The U.S. Air Force is undertaking a new approach to electromagnetic spectrum operations, mainly with the nascent development of an uncrewed teaming aircraft to couple with the Next Generation Air Dominance that can carry jamming capabilities.
NASA’s Mars Insight science team plans to extend marsquake-data gathering by the probe’s seismometer while available power dwindles daily due to dust accumulating on the lander’s solar arrays.
Boeing hopes to secure a contract early next year for Germany’s future fleet of Chinook transport helicopters as it works to finalize requirements for the rotorcraft.
Germany is pursuing an accelerated timeline for its Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter acquisition as the country looks to bring the aircraft into operation before the end of the decade.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee is blasting the U.S. Air Force for not only changing how many Boeing F-15EXs it wants to buy, but how it is buying them.
NASA managers on June 21 were reviewing results of a modified fueling test of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which culminated when the onboard flight system software aborted the countdown.
A proposed amendment to the House Armed Services Committee’s markup of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill would add $37 billion to the panel’s topline and plus-up Pentagon acquisitions, including another addition to the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 program.
