With “appropriate” input from the F-35 international partners, the Pentagon will develop a plan for transitioning the existing F-35 management structure to separate program offices run by the U.S. services that fly the fighter.
Rolls-Royce has teamed up with UK startup Superdielectrics to explore the potential of a new class of supercapacitor with higher energy density, faster charging and longer life.
The Navy’s F-35C is headed to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, in the near future, bolstering the fifth-generation fighter’s ranks in the Asia Pacific.
NASA has selected Lockheed Martin to build an X-plane to show that sonic booms can be reduced to a level low enough to enable the flight ban to be lifted.
Moog and the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences have agreed to co-funded work in support of adapting blockchain technology for additive manufacturing.
The 230-ft (70-meter) rocket lifted off at 4:30 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40, kicking off the seventh of some 30 missions SpaceX plans to fly this year.
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NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $34.4m U.S. Army contract for maintenance and training on Counter-Rocket Artillery Mortar, Counter-Unmanned Aerial System C2 system, and $27m to extend the current contract by 21 months.
For pilots flying the U.S. Navy F-35C carrier variant, nighttime carrier operations have been made more difficult by a “green glow” that obscures their vision.
Three days after the launch of GSAT-6A, India’s newest communication satellite, the country’s space agency has lost all communications with the spacecraft.
NASA’s Space Technology Mission Directorate will invest up to $6.5 million in 25 advanced tech concepts to further future human and robotic space exploration.
The USAF has allocated $250 million in its fiscal 2019 budget to equip 20 aircraft types for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast Out position reporting.
Chinese space engineers observed the country’s largest orbital re-entry so far on April 2 when the Tiangong 1 space lab fell into the South Pacific Ocean.
NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold installed two wireless communications antennas and replaced a camera assembly during an abbreviated 6-hr. March 29 spacewalk.
