Blood samples have survived a flight in a small unmanned aircraft, opening up the possibility of quick access to laboratory tests for health care workers at remote clinics in rural areas of developing nations that lack passable roads to dedicated labs.
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden blames Congress for failing to fully fund NASA’s commercial crew program that is intended to restore the nation’s ability to send astronauts into orbit.
The inclusion of secondary smallsat payloads adds additional luster to the multi-billion-dollar SLS-Orion test flight and potential encouragement for researchers to push deeper into space using CubeSat technologies.
The NASA-funded National Space Biomedical Research Institute is seeking more study proposals in areas of health concern associated with human deep-space exploration.
Russia continues to strengthen its positions in the Arctic region, as reflected in July when Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the country’s renewed naval doctrine.
Engineering development tests of modified Longbow Hellfire missiles for use on Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were successfully conducted in June, the U.S. Navy reports.
NEW DELHI—India and the U.S are working together to develop a dual-frequency synthetic aperture radar satellite – the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (Nisar), expected to be launched in 2021.
While it sizes up high-value landing site candidates for its next Mars rover, NASA is developing strategies for protecting dozens of potential rock and soil samples cached on the red planet for harvest and return to Earth at some time in the future.
Canadian space company Thoth Technology has received a U.S. patent for a 20-km (12-mi.) space elevator tower that would replace the first stage of a rocket as a means of lowering cost to orbit.
The British government has committed to continue its involvement in the ongoing U.S.-led air campaign against the self-proclaimed Islamic State militants into 2017.
Australia has moved forward construction of its next frigate class by three years to 2020 and confirmed its plan to maintain a permanent naval construction industry fed with continuous orders.
