NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have selected a new technology for planetary sample collection and return for future missions to the Moon and Martian moon Phobos.
Development of compact, efficient rotary internal-combustion engines able to run on jet fuel has been boosted by U.S. Army contracts to advance the technology for unmanned-aircraft propulsion and rotorcraft auxiliary-power applications.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy’s remarks during a keynote speech at the Association of the U.S. Army’s virtual annual meeting appear to confirm the previously unannounced accuracy results from the Flight Experiment (FE)-2 test.
North Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in two versions, intended to fit into vessels with different launch tubes.
The new liquid-propellant weapon appeared to be an enlargement of North Korea’s previous ICBM, Hwasong 15, which implicitly has insufficient payload-range capability for all of North Korea’s purposes.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of CNES, tells Aviation Week’s Thierry Dubois about the agency’s progress on reusable launchers and other programs in conjunction with International Astronautical Congress 2020.
The letter from Sen. Bob Menendez and Sen. Jack Reed—both Democrats and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, respectively—demanded immediate answers to a list of 40 questions.
The U.S. Space Development Agency is looking for a company to launch an initial set of 28 communications and missile tracking satellites to low Earth orbit beginning in September 2022.
After losing to Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s inaugural transport layer contract award, L3Harris Technologies realized it must alter its strategy to win.
