The U.S. and Japan will conduct an intercept test in October that “will send a message around the world” about the capabilities of the Aegis ballistic missile defense system.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft swooped close to the cloud tops of giant Jupiter for its first orbital flyby on Aug. 27, with all instrumentation and communications channels operating in expected fashion, mission managers said.
With its first regulation allowing routine use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in national airspace now in place, the FAA is moving ahead with its next rulemaking actions to expand beyond the initial strict limitations placed on UAS use.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a way of reinforcing composites using tiny carbon nanotubes (CNT) that testing has shown can increase strength by 30%.
Under Darpa’s Icarus program to develop vanishing drones that can clandestinely deliver critical supplies and then disappear without leaving a trace, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) are working on a parachute that will disintegrate on demand.
India has successfully tested its indigenously developed supersonic combustion ramjet (scramjet) engine, which engineers hope could one day allow a tenfold reduction in the cost of space launch.
America’s ballistic missile defenses will struggle to keep pace with new Iranian and North Korean rockets, while Russia and China continue to modernize and upgrade their nuclear delivery vehicles.
AIRBUS DEFENSE AND SPACE demonstrated A400M airlifter landing on sand runway with development aircraft MSN2 over three-week period in August at Woodbridge, UK. ROCKWELL COLLINS and U.S. Air Force completed data transfer from airborne C-17 to ground station over Wideband High Frequency (WBHF) channel during two-day flight between Dover AFB, DE, and Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS, INC.’s new Unmanned Aircraft System Flight Training Academy graduated first cadre of company aircrews Aug. 12.
U.S. House space subcommittee chairman Brian Babin (R-Texas) earlier this month announced the formation of the Texas Space Congressional Caucus. The new group will try to “help advocate and protect the interests of NASA’s Johnson Space Center and the space industry across Texas.” Fellow Texas Republican Rep. John Culberson will co-chair the group, whose members also include Houston-area Democratic congressmen Gene Green and Al Green.
The F-35's debut in the Netherlands excited the Dutch people and lifted public opinion in a crucial year for the program, according to the new chief of the Royal Netherlands Air Force.
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft splashed down Friday with a 3,300-lb. return cargo just over 5 1/2 hours after departing the six-person International Space Station.
The U.S. is working to expand the scope of a major Scandinavian air exercise that could see it turn into a regional equivalent to Red Flag training events in Nevada and Alaska.
The U.S. Air Force is pressing forward with a competition to begin designing the first new U.S. intercontinental ballistic missile since the end of the Cold War, despite not having a unified estimate of what it will likely cost taxpayers.
The final four of 27 MD-530F Cayuse Warrior helicopter gunships ordered for the Afghan air force have been delivered, with a shipment of one upgraded and three new aircraft to Hamid Karzai Kabul International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 25.
A European Ariane 5 ECA launcher placed two Intelsat communications satellites in geostationary transfer orbit Aug. 25, lifting a record combined total mass of 10,735 kg, the bulk of which comprised the spacecraft.
International Space Station commander Jeff Williams is set to embark on a planned 6- to 7-hr. spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Kate Rubins on Sept. 1 to retract a 44-ft.-long radiator panel extended nearly four years ago to deal with a long-resolved ammonia coolant leak.
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a contract to Boeing to continue F-15 full-scale structural fatigue testing through August 2021 as the only F-15E Strike Eagle to record an air-to-air kill flies past 12,000 hr.
The scramjet propulsion experiment will be carried by the RH-560 two-stage sounding rocket launched from Sriharikota spaceport in south India on Aug. 28.
