Defense and Space

Recovery teams have found components of the aircraft’s landing gear.

NASA on Dec. 12 cleared Boeing for an uncrewed trial run of its CST-100 Starliner space taxi to the ISS.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission team has selected the primary and backup collection sites on the surface of the asteroid Bennu.

The U.S. military on Dec. 12 lofted an intermediate-range, ground-launched ballistic missile traveling more than 500 km.

Although the House has OK'd a bill to set up a Space Force, the military will not be able to implement it until a fiscal 2020 approps bill is passed, the DOD says.

Although the House has OK'd a bill to establish a Space Force, the military can't implement it until a fiscal 2020 approps bill is passed, the DOD says.

Flight operations with the Elbit-made UAVs reportedly are likely to be delayed around six months.

Ships and aircraft scouring the Drake Passage between Tierra del Fuego and the Antarctic peninsula have recovered components of the aircraft’s main landing gear and elements from the fuel system.

The U.S. military lofted an intermediate-range, ground-launched ballistic missile traveling more than 500 km.

Northrop Grumman, one of four companies vying for a pair of national security space launch service contracts, has signed an agreement with Delaware

A NASA-led group is addressing the threat posed by space junk to a growing, more diverse space economy.

Northrop Grumman has signed an agreement with startup Saturn Satellite Networks for the first flight of its Omega rocket.

CEO Dan Jablonsky confirmed the company is exploring a wide range of possibilities. “We continue to get asked what else we might do," he says. "We continue to look at all alternatives.”

The introduction of a VTOL unmanned aircraft to each platoon will be staggered monthly beginning in April and each unit will operate only one system.

After three spacewalks, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer is almost ready to resume collecting cosmic rays.

S7 Space Corp. will relocate its Sea Launch complex to Russia.

The main thrust of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s counter-hypersonic strategy has just been revealed.

A Blue Origin reusable suborbital rocket sent a capsule for its sixth ride beyond the atmosphere Dec. 11.

President Donald Trump’s interest in creating a sixth armed service focused on space re-energized the movement and convinced naysayers in the Senate, according to House Armed Services Committee Reps. Jim Cooper (D-Tenn.) and Mike Rogers (R-Ala.).

The Croatian government has moved forward this week on a new plan to acquire a replacement for 12 aging MiG-21s scheduled for retirement in 2024 after the previous selection process collapsed amidst international controversy.

An initial acquisition by the Croatian air force of four UH-60Ms is likely to be followed by more orders of the Sikorsky utility helicopter to replace the Balkan country’s fleet of Soviet and Russian built “Hip”- series helicopters.

S7 Space Corp. will relocate its Sea Launch complex to Russia.

Recently revived Stratolaunch has expanded its workforce sevenfold since October when it changed owners, and has announced plans to become a high-speed testbed provider.

NATO formally opened a four-nation training center for special forces air crews in Central and Eastern Europe in Croatia on Dec. 11.

Centauri, a provider of bespoke space, intel, directed energy and cyber services to government agencies, has acquired The Design Knowledge Co. and PreTalen.