NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission team is expediting efforts to secure the material collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu after a camera scan of the sample container revealed some of the scientific bounty escaping.
British unmanned technologies firm Blue Bear Systems has demonstrated the swarming of 20 unmanned air systems of different types in a beyond-visual-line-of-sight flight.
NASA recently conducted certification baseline reviews of the three U.S. companies vying to make landers that will transport astronauts to the Moon by 2024—Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX.
Weighing just 33 grams and launched by hand to scout ahead of soldiers on foot, FLIR Systems’ Black Hornet 3 unmanned aircraft is now able to autonomously retrace its steps and re-establish contact with its operator if it loses GPS or communications while reconnoitering the inside of a building.
The crew of the International Space Station has temporarily sealed the non-life-threatening air leak first noticed a year ago in the Russian Zvezda service module.
The ODIN Base Kit (OBK)—comprised of two transportable cases weighing less than 70 lb. each—replaces an 800-lb. server rack of the Lockheed Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS).
The U.S. Space Force aims to establish a new acquisition arm, Space Systems Command, by spring 2021, but the Pentagon is still hammering out the details, according to the chief of space operations.
The Directorate’s Direct Attack Division published a broad agency announcement on Oct. 19 calling for a study of a next generation Global Precision Attack Weapon.
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) anticipates the House and Senate will reach a conference agreement in early December for the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill, which is roughly five months after each chamber passed its version of the bill.
