The U.S. Navy and Congress are grappling with the decision to equip ships with an Aegis combat system that lacks the ability to perform ballistic-missile defense.
The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency needs to better manage the way it buys certain spare parts for C-130 Hercules aircraft through multiple contracts, the Pentagon IG says.
The compromise commercial-space law that received final congressional approval Monday night includes a provision that would-be space miners see as making it easier for them to raise funds and clear regulatory hurdles.
The U.S. Air Force’s first attempt at establishing a competition between launch upstart SpaceX and longtime monopoly player United Launch Alliance (ULA) has apparently fizzled before it started.
India’s GSAT-17 and GSAT-18 satellites—proposed to augment the country’s telecommunication, television services and in-orbit back-up system—will be launched in 2016 and 2017.
A group of nations led by the U.S. and Germany has submitted a proposal to the World Radiocommunications Conference (WRC) in Geneva to extend Ku- or Ka-band spectrum allocated for fixed-satellite services to unmanned aerial vehicles flying long-haul routes.
Debate continues in Congress about whether the U.S. Navy is following the right course in buying the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and follow-on frigates based on modified LCS designs.
Boeing officials are shifting their attention to a second round of fuel dock testing with the first KC-46 aerial refueler following successful initial airworthiness certification for the aircraft outfitted with its wing-mounted pods and centerline refueling boom.
Gyana Ltd. CEO and founder Joyeeta Das has visions of crunching imagery regularly gathered by new constellations of small satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles with data gathered from social media as real-estate investment and urban-planning tools.
“There will be more spending under these circumstances,” French president Francois Hollande told a rare joint session of the French parliament in Versailles Nov. 16, three days after the Paris terror attacks.
“There will be more spending under these circumstances,” French president Francois Hollande told a rare joint session of the French parliament in Versailles Nov. 16, three days after the Paris terror attacks.
PARIS—France has begun delivering on a promise to increase air strikes on militant targets in Syria, and plans to deploy the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to the Gulf next month, tripling its air strike capability in the region.
While the overall price tag for the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class replacement submarine fleet raises some eyebrows, it is the cost of each vessel that will go a long way.
The U.S. Air Force has chosen Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering as the first awardee under its program to mature rocket system propulsion technology in pursuit of a domestic alternative to the Russian RD-180 used for the Atlas V launch vehicle.
Studies over Greenland reveal the warming atmosphere and ocean around it are hastening the rate at which the massive glaciers covering the landmass are melting.
Cameras aboard the Saturn-orbiting Cassini spacecraft are tracking a slow but impressive transition from fall to winter at the south pole of the moon Titan.
Airbus Helicopters has begun flight tests of its kerosene-fueled High Compression Engine H120 helicopter developed under the European Clean Skies initiative.
