NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and adjacent Patrick AFB, home to Cape Canaveral, released all but nonessential personnel on Oct. 5 as Hurricane Matthew churned through the Caribbean.
Hybrid Air Vehicles, the manufacturer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, says it is confident that damage caused by a heavy landing on the aircraft’s second post-rebuild flight could be repaired in 3-4 months.
Engineers at Blue Origin validated the “full-envelope” escape system for its six-seat suborbital passenger capsule with a successful abort test Oct. 5 16,000 ft. above the West Texas desert.
GE Aviation is positioning itself to offer a 5,000-10,000 shp-class Future Affordable Engine Technology (FATE) turboshaft engine for the U.S. Army Future Vertical Lift program.
Honeywell/Pratt & Whitney Advanced Turbine Engine Company (ATEC) has received a new contract for the U.S. Army’s Alternate Concept Engine (ACE) program.
Triumph Group has sold its Newport News, Virginia, aerospace systems business unit and Force Measurement Systems division in San Diego to privately owned aerospace and automotive research company Calspan.
India will launch Resourcesat 2A—the latest in a series of the country’s Earth observation satellites—in November, an attempt toward bolstering its weather prediction capabilities.
Brunswick Commercial & Government Products Inc., Edgewater, Florida, has been awarded a $72,000,000 single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for ...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) first next-generation Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite, GOES-R, is set to launch early next month.
Karem Aircraft says its optimum-speed tiltrotor proposal for the U.S. Army’s upcoming Future Vertical Lift Medium does not need as much horsepower as its competitors.
Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin “will dominate the defense electronics market” in that order until almost 2025, Teal Group analysts predict.
RAYTHEON has U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract to develop a transition to production process to incorporate Gallium Nitride (GaN) components into AN/TPY-2 radars. LOCKHEED MARTIN was selected as preferred Combat System Integrator for Australia’s Future Submarine Program, subject to further discussion on commercial matters. SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP. has $30.8m U.S. Navy contract for MK 48 Mod 7 torpedo afterbody / tailcone sections, test equipment, production support material, engineering support, hardware repair support.
Stratview Research believes the global aerospace and defense C-Class parts market over the next five years will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.4% and be worth $12.1 billion by 2021. Hardware parts are expected to remain dominant, according to researchers, mainly driven by the demand of fasteners and bolts. Key manufacturers are Berkshire Hathaway’s Precision Casts Parts, Alcoa Global Fasteners, BE Aerospace, Eaton, Monogram Aerospace Fasteners, Amphenol and Triumph Group’s Vought Aircraft Industries.
NASA wants concepts for “objective vehicles” in several size classes and for demonstrators that would flight test electrified propulsion technology for one or more of these designs.
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NASA has agreed to pursue improvements in the agency’s handling of classified information, including the training of those responsible for overseeing self-inspection processes.
