The U.S. Defense Department is on the cusp of beginning an analysis of alternatives of future wideband satellite communications options as the eighth of 10 Boeing-built Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) space vehicles is prepped for launch this month.
Congress has decided not to completely hamstring U.S. Air Force programs to replace the antiquated EC-130H Compass Call electronic attack turboprop and E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System.
A new Chinese air-to-air weapon is comparable to a long-range surface-to-air missile in size and appearance and therefore can probably reach well more than 200 km (120 mi.).
Czech aerospace firm Aero Vodochody says it is close to completing its first new-build L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft (ALCA) since production of the type ended 13 years ago.
Electrospray thruster technology demonstrated on the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Lisa Pathfinder gravity-wave mission is moving to more generic applications, including cubesat deorbiting, formation flying and long-distance laser comms.
The FAA’s UAS test sites across the U.S. are carving out hundreds of linear miles of airspace for proving out the technologies and procedures needed for widespread beyond visual line of sight operations.
Although the reconciled 2017 defense policy bill drops proposed plus-ups for fighter aircraft procurement, the House Armed Services Committee chairman is hopeful the incoming President Donald Trump administration will boost funds to pay for the additional hardware.
The first developmental flight of India’s heaviest rocket—the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV-Mk. 3-D1)—is expected in the first quarter of 2017, a senior government official says.
Singapore is set to deploy a radar-equipped aerostat that will provide continuous surveillance of air and sea some 200 km (120 mi.) beyond its borders.
XCOR AEROSPACE and IMMORTAL DATA INC. entered licensing agreement to commercialize ShipsLog data acquisition software developed for XCOR Lynx space plane.
General Atomics - Aeronautical Systems Inc., Poway, California, has been awarded a $39,777,423 modification (0009) to previously awarded contract FA8620-15-G-4040.
Compromise defense authorization language would provide more money for readiness and higher troop levels instead of plus-ups for fighter aircraft procurement.
Lawmakers have essentially rejected a Senate effort to kill the F-35 Joint Program Office and split the fighter's upgrade effort into a separate acquisition program.
The U.S. Air Force is asking Congress for relief from a likely continuing resolution (CR) for the next-generation KC-46 tanker to avoid paying a steep penalty to Boeing.
The 2017 defense authorization bill will include compromise language that splits the Pentagon’s office for acquisition, technology and logistics into a new undersecretary of research and engineering and an undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment.
After a dozen years in orbit about giant Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft is set to embark on a “ring grazing” session as the lead-in to a mission “Grand Finale.”
