Japan’s Institute of Space and Astronautical Science and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are accepting proposals from the international scientific community for analysis of tiny samples of the asteroid Itokawa.
On Wednesday afternoon on Capitol Hill the Senate Armed Services (SASC) subcommittee on strategic forces will discuss “Military Space Organization, Policy, and Programs.”
Boeing is forging ahead with KC-46 Pegasus FAA airworthiness certification in the hopes of getting the aircraft certified for delivery to the U.S. Air Force by year’s end.
The U.S. Army and Marine Corps are developing requirements for an unmanned aircraft able to carry 300-800 lb. of cargo 20-100 km (12-60 mi.) to lighten the load carried by soldiers.
Boeing is studying a tailsitting vertical-takeoff-and-landing design for the U.S. Marine Corps’ emerging MUX requirement for a long-range, long-endurance expeditionary unmanned aircraft.
Piasecki Aircraft is pursuing a modular multimission vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle for the U.S. Marine Corps’ emerging MUX expeditionary unmanned aircraft requirement.
India’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft has successfully test-fired a Derby air-to-air Beyond Visual Range missile, a major step toward the aircraft’s Final Operational Clearance.
BOEING has $488m Foreign Military Sales contract for remanufacture of 38 AH-64 Apache aircraft, plus the purchase of three Longbow crew trainers and associated spares for the UK. Work complete by May 31, 2024. INSITU INC. has $8m U.S. Navy contract for the procurement of spare and sustainment parts to maintain U.S. Marine Corps RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial systems.
The “potentially existential” threat posed by North Korea is the top priority of the U.S. intelligence community, according to Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, speaking during a wide-ranging hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence May 11. The nation’s most senior intelligence officials declined in the public hearing to estimate when North Korea would be capable of launching a nuclear-armed ICBM.
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Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype AW609 commercial tiltrotor have concluded that faulty logic within the aircraft’s flight control system ultimately led to the accident.
