The Israeli Air Force is preparing a crew to operate the Boeing 767 aircraft that will carry the nation’s president and prime minister when it is delivered in early 2019.
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Engineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and The Boring Co., a tunneling business, spent last weekend repurposing a Falcon 9 liquid oxygen transfer tube into the hull of a 31-cm sub that could be used in the ongoing rescue of a boys’ soccer team.
The acquisition program could take the form of a domestic developmental effort or a foreign off-the-shelf purchase, defense ministry officials said in an interview.
Airbus is reporting progress for two missions in Solar System exploration and exoplanet characterization—the Mars Sample Return mission and the Cheops satellite.
European industry needs to unite around one fighter program to compete with U.S. rivals, Airbus officials have suggested. European industry is currently producing three different fighters, the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Dassault Rafale and the Saab Gripen.
The Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (Casis), which manages research activities of U.S. National Lab assets aboard the International Space Station, has selected Joseph Vockley, a molecular geneticist, as its new president and executive director.
The F-35 Defense Acquisition Board meeting to finalize Joint Strike Fighter follow-on development is delayed because entrance criteria needed for the meeting are incomplete.
NASA has initiated a two-phase effort leading to a possible February 2019 contract award for a second Mobile Launcher at Kennedy Space Center for the Space Launch System heavy rocket.
Norwegian H225 crash probers are urging that Airbus revise the design of the helicopter’s main gearbox to improve its “robustness, reliability and safety.”
