For the first time since the MSL Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, scientists have used one of the rover’s sealed wet chemistry cups to seek organic compounds.
Completing a demo for a huge first-stage rocket engine, maybe in 2018, is among tech acquisition projects that China’s main space industry group is undertaking.
In his first public appearance in the newly created role of undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, former NASA administrator Mike Griffin stressed that near-peer adversaries like Russia and China are making advances in hypersonics that pose serious threats to U.S. forces.
Australia is closer to achieving its “OneSky” goal of merging its civilian and military air traffic control systems after signing $936 million in contracts.
Indonesia is set to become the second export customer of the Airbus A400M airlifter, with the state-owned enterprise ministry intending to buy two aircraft.
Boeing’s master schedule currently pegs first aircraft delivery to the fleet in the second quarter, but the Air Force now believes delivery is more likely to occur in late 2018.
If it takes as long to field a sixth-generation fighter aircraft as the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has, the warplane “may already be irrelevant.”
Instead of large, manned, vulnerable aircraft providing command and control and ground surveillance, the USAF now wants a more survivable, networked approach.
The first Northrop Grumman RQ-4 equipped with the UTC Aerospace Systems MS-177 imaging camera has moved to Beale AFB, California, to begin operational testing.
Thales says it has found more than one customer for its Avionics 2020 flight deck, unveiled five years ago and featuring an advanced human-machine interface.
The second version of China’s Long March 5 rocket, intended for building the country’s planned space station, will fly in mid-2019, a year later than planned.
Olin Corp.-Winchester Division, East Alton, Illinois, was awarded a $51,136,258 modification (P00020) to contract W52P1J-16-C-0003 for 5.56mm, 7.62mm and .50 small caliber ammunition cartridges.
The F-35 Joint Program Office has delivered the flight clearances, simulators, threat information, and logistics system required for the Air Force’s F-35As equipped with the latest software load to employ all of its weapons throughout the full flight envelope.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $8.9m U.S. Navy contract for completion of development and fielding of the Aegis Baseline 9 weapon system and integrated Aegis combat system on remaining Aegis technical insertion (TI) 12 configured destroyers and TI 12/TI 08 cruisers.
