U.K. defense electronics firm Ultra Electronics is developing a new family of miniature passive sonobuoys that eventually could lend themselves to deployment from unmanned aerial systems.
Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries’ Spaceflight Networks is forging partnerships with four satellite data and spacecraft radio providers to expand the global reach of its young low latency data network specializing in the communications requirements of the surging small satellite sector.
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STELIA AEROSPACE, CONSTELLIUM and CT INGENIERIE partnered to conduct R&D program to optimize and expand use of additive manufacturing (3-D printing) to produce large aerostructures. SINTAVIA was formed in Davie, FL, by Neff Capital Management to focus on aerospace and defense parts production using 3-D printing; Neff plans to invest $10m into new company, which also will maintain a metallurgical and metrology lab.
Pluto’s large moon Charon is beginning to reveal its face as the New Horizons probe draws closer to the July 14 flyby that will take it between the orbits of the two partners in this “binary dwarf.” Members of the mission’s science team say features resolving on the surface of Charon could be impact craters, and if they are, it could provide them with a keyhole into the moon’s interior.
The GPS IIF-10 satellite is slated to lift off on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, for delivery into plane C slot 3 for the GPS constellation about 11,000 mi. above the surface of the Earth.
This year’s Talisman Saber exercise has some added twists – thousands of U.S. Marines are now in Darwin, Australia, representing a major buildup for the service in the region, and Japanese forces also are participating on a limited bases, officials note.
William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for human exploration and operations, says NASA’s strategy is to use the ISS to spur the growth of a commercial economy in low Earth orbit that can take over with its own spacecraft while NASA moves on to the space around the Moon.
In its heaviest-ever commercial launch mission, India successfully put into orbit five U.K. satellites aboard a Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle XL variant (PSLV-XL) on July 10, giving a boost to the country’s commercial launch capabilities.
Members of the mission’s science team say features resolving on the surface of Charon could be impact craters, and if they are, it could provide them with a keyhole into the moon’s interior.
BAE Systems’ program to build two 27,500-ton assault ships for Australia is running close to the timetable set eight years ago, with the company saying the second ship should be delivered in September.
The recent nuclear agreement between the U.S. and South Korea is vital for continued nuclear trade between the two countries, a recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) report says.
A different way to enter a planet’s atmosphere is behind Northrop Grumman’s concept for a flying “rover” able to coast through the clouds of Venus for up to a year collecting atmospheric data.
Lockheed could convert the U.K. Royal Air Force’s existing fleet of C-130J airlifters into SC-130Js, reducing procurement costs and technical risks, company officials told Aviation Week on the eve of the RNAS Yeovilton Air Day.
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Four NASA astronauts, all veterans with experience aboard the International Space Station, space shuttle or Russian Soyuz spacecraft, have been named to train to fly aboard the first U.S. commercial crew missions, tentatively planned for 2016-17.
Service development programs in the Pentagon are – on average – taking about 40% longer than the planned five years expected to mature into the production stage, largely due to problems with software, Air Force procurement chief William LaPlante says.
Under a contract signed July 9 in Oxford at the opening of ESA’s new Harwell satellite facility, Eutelsat Quantum will be led by Airbus Defense and Space U.K. and will be based on Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd.’s new small geostationary satellite platform.
Investigations into the failure of HF7, one of the most ambitious flights yet attempted in the joint Australian-U.S. Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (Hifire) program, have pinpointed a thermal problem with a transmitter as the most likely cause.
