The U.S. Navy has awarded Austal USA a $51.7 million contract for additional work on its Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) line, as well as future frigate work.
Russia’s upgraded MS-1 Progress resupply capsule carried out an automated docking with the International Space Station early Dec. 23, delivering 5.8 tons of propellant, crew supplies, spare parts and research hardware.
The U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (Navcent) Task Force 50 is now under the command of the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, which now plans and conducts coalition strike operations in the Middle East, the U.S. Navy says.
The guided-missile destroyer DDG 90 USS Chafee returned to Pearl Harbor earlier this month from an independent deployment to the U.S. 3rd, 4th and 7th Fleet areas of operations.
NASA has scuttled plans for a March 2016 launch of the multinational Mars InSight lander because of an inability to resolve a small vacuum leak in a key European instrument.
Virgin Galactic is expected to complete assembly of the second SpaceShipTwo suborbital space vehicle in time for external painting to take place over the holiday break.
New Zealand-based space launch company Rocket Lab has announced the start of construction of an orbital launch site on the Mahia Peninsula, an outlying spit of land on the east coast of the country’s North Island.
With the new acquisition directions from Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, the U.S. Navy will soon have to better address some of its bedeviling bandwidth issues.
Two U.S. astronauts, working against the clock, hustled through a 3 1/2-hr. spacewalk on Dec. 21 to unjam the International Space Station’s unlatched 1-ton Mobile Transporter rail car.
BAE SYSTEMS has $278m PENTAGON contract for Instrumentation Radar Support Program, including radar/telemetry/optics systems for 28 test ranges across U.S. Defense Department, U.S. Energy Department, NASA, seven foreign governments. Work being performed at Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; expected complete by Dec. 21, 2020.
UAV SUPPORT: The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., of Poway, California, a $338.2 million contract for Predator (MQ1) and Reaper (MQ9) UAV contractor logistic support, the Defense Department announced Dec. 18.
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A new U.S. Government Accountability Office report continues to question the Littoral Combat Ship's lethality – especially when it comes to its offensive missiles.
The probe of a fatal crash of a Hawker Hunter fighter at an airshow in August is focusing on regulations surrounding the maintenance of former military aircraft and the fitment of ejection seats in them.
Two Indonesian pilots died when their almost-new Korea Aerospace Industries TA-50 trainer-attack aircraft crashed during an aerobatic display at an air show on Dec. 20.
