The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 (NDAA) passed by the Senate includes language meant “to cut through acquisition red tape and provide more funding flexibility to develop electronic warfare technology,” according to the sponsoring lawmaker.
Gen. David Goldfein, who is set to become the 21st Air Force chief of staff, told lawmakers June 16 that he expects Milestone A decisions from the Pentagon in the coming months for the new ICBM and cruise missile.
Controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are bracing for 35 min. of terror as the $1.1 billion Juno mission spacecraft enters polar orbit over Jupiter on July 4.
A bill to bolster support for NASA’s aeronautics research has been introduced in Congress even as lawmakers prove reluctant to support a boost in funding sought in fiscal 2017 to launch an ambitious 10-year program of X-plane flight demonstrators.
NASA is ethically obligated to provide its astronauts with lifetime health care, current and former U.S. spaceflight record holders and medical experts told the House Science space subcommittee June 15.
Swedish aerospace and defense company Saab says it is ready to partner with India’s state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) to upgrade India’s indigenously-developed Tejas Light Combat Aircraft (LCA).
As the U.S. Marine Corps continues to develop its own new large UAV, dubbed “MUX,” the service sees the Northrop Grumman MQ-8C Fire Scout as a good short-term gap-filler, says Col. John Barranco, the service’s unmanned systems cell lead.
One of three engines firing to slow the stage’s descent to SpaceX's unmanned landing barge apparently didn’t deliver enough power, triggering a crash, company founder Elon Musk said in a tweet.
NASA’s Spacecraft Fire Experiment, Saffire-1, appears to have burned for several minutes June 14, long enough to generate thousands of images for researchers.
Due to safety concerns about nearby urban areas—as well as increased public awareness following last year's Shoreham Airshow crash—the Red Arrows team will be limited to flypasts only.
KUALA LUMPUR—Deliveries of Malaysia’s four Airbus A400M Atlas airlifters should be complete this year, following acceptance of the third aircraft June 9.
