Astronauts aboard the International Space Station supervised a final round of CubeSat deployments on May 18, having dispatched 17 small sats in all over three days with a NanoRacks deployer for a range of missions.
The Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) program is in the process of briefing U.S. Strategic Command to transition into an early combatant commander use period, according to a U.S. Army officer.
Saab is confident of achieving a flight test program with just one-third of the flying hours taken to test the original Gripen. First flight is planned by the end of the year.
Unlocking the true potential of unmanned systems will require building greater trust of the systems among users, according to a panel of military unmanned systems leaders speaking at the recent Sea-Air-Space symposium here.
Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL says there is no obstacle to field trials of its latest Parcelcopter unmanned delivery aircraft in urban areas following completion of an experimental trial in the Bavarian Alps.
The “AW209” designation, revealed in a May 3 presentation to an Italian parliamentary committee by Leonardo (formerly Finmeccanica) CEO Mauro Moretti, is a placeholder for the helicopter division’s next new AgustaWestland product.
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Archibald, Pennsylvania and Raytheon Missile System, Tucson, Arizona, have been awarded a combined not-to-exceed...
The U.S. Air Force and Navy service secretaries and members of Congress have complained processing is so slow that U.S. businesses stand to lose Foreign Military Sales because the process is so slow.
The Harpoon Block II+ missile completed another major flight test May 17, setting the stage for upcoming operational tests in another month, says Capt. Jaime Engdahl, U.S. Navy Precision Strike Weapons program manager.
Industry proposals due May 23 could lead to a Mars orbiter launched in 2022 that could help NASA find near-surface ice deposits to support a “semi-permanent” human base in an area that could also sustain life or fossil evidence that it once existed.
Sweden’s investment in new Gripen fighters and diesel-electric submarines is being driven forward by increased Russian aggression in the Baltics, the country’s defense minister says.
NASA and German space agency DLR will jointly sponsor six space analog research efforts selected to assess the effects of the deep space environment on astronaut cognition, sleep and team functioning during missions lasting months to years.
To address the need for greater offensive missile power required to accommodate the call for more naval “distributive lethality,” the U.S. Navy will likely rely more on demand from the field than the normal Pentagon acquisition process, says Gerard Hueber, Raytheon Missiles Systems vice president.
France’s defense procurement agency DGA conducted a first test flight of the Neuron unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) technology demonstrator on May 17.
India has advanced the test launch of its Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) to next week – a mission that will mark a big step toward achieving the two-stage-to-orbit (TSTO) launch potential.
The inauguration of a new Taiwanese president is resurrecting concerns of additional cross-Strait tensions, a recent Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) report says.
A multi-national science team has made the first-ever orbital detection of magnetic reconnection, the previously theorized explosive process that convert stored magnetic energy from the Sun and Earth into kinetic energy and heat.
LOCKHEED MARTIN has $31m U.S. Navy contract for long lead time materials, parts, components to maintain production schedule for eight low-rate initial production Lot 12 F-35As for The Netherlands. Work complete March 2021. SPACE SYSTEMS LORAL will build Intelsat 39, providing data networking/video distribution in Africa, Europe, the Middle Eastå and Asia, replacing Intelsat 902, launched in 2001.
Frank Kendall, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief, sounds ready to continue on in his role should the next president request him to stay. Asked at the Washington think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies whether he would serve in a new administration, Kendall said, “The short answer is yes. I think I’m making a difference. And I think that continuity matters. I would consider that possibility if the option appeared.”
