As F-35C pilots practiced aboard CVN 68 USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, JSF mechanics and ground crew made sure the aircraft could be properly serviced at sea.
BAE Systems has brought a 1990s prototype to a U.S. Army convention “to start a conversation” about what an airdroppable big-gun armored vehicle might look like.
After years of counting on U.S. government business, United Launch Alliance is paying more attention to developments in the global commercial satellite sector.
After struggling for years to find affordable and timely rides to orbit, small satellite makers are catching the attention of conventional launch service providers.
The U.S. Army is planning to choose a prime integrating contractor for nine Airborne Reconnaissance Low - Enhanced (ARL-E) systems, based on Bombardier Dash 8-300 aircraft, before the end of November.
Test pilots put their F-35Cs through the paces for military- and maximum-level launches with simulated missiles earlier this month aboard CVN 68 USS Dwight D Eisenhower off the Virginia coast.
LONDON – Five NATO personnel were killed when a U.K. Airbus Helicopters Puma Mk. 2 helicopter crashed after coming into contact with a tethered balloon near Kabul, Afghanistan. The Oct. 11 accident involved one of the U.K. Royal Air Force’s newly upgraded Puma Mk. 2 twin-engine helicopters, three of which were deployed to Kabul to support NATO’s Resolute Support Mission.
Israel Aerospace Industries is developing a small communications satellite platform, AMOS-E, that will utilize electric propulsion to reach geostationary orbit.
Virgin Galactic confirms that it has reverted to an improved form of the original rubber-based fuel for powering the company’s sub-orbital SpaceShipTwo.
Thales Alenia Space has successfully completed vibration acceptance tests of two aluminum antenna supports that the company says are the largest spacecraft components ever produced in Europe using powder-bed additive manufacturing.
Thales Alenia Space has completed vibration acceptance tests of two aluminum antenna supports that it says are the largest spacecraft components ever produced in Europe using powder-bed additive manufacturing.
AEROJET ROCKETDYNE passed critical design review for LOCKHEED MARTIN Orion spacecraft’s jettison motor and crew module reaction control system, enabling Aerojet to start hardware fabrication for Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1), launching no earlier than 2018.
Russian cruise missile strikes launched from the Caspian Sea into Syrian territory mark an end to a 25-year edge the U.S. has had in terms of precision weapons, according to retired Gen. Jack Keane, the former Army vice chief of staff. “The Russians have had this capability, and they’re obviously using it,” Keane, now chairman of the Institute for the Study of War, said during an Oct. 8 Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. “This technological advantage that we have had is gone.”
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