After years of trying to sell the space division of Avio SpA, private-equity investor Cinven Ltd. is preparing to unload a majority of its 81% stake in the company.
With a little help from the U.S. Congress and the potential for international orders, Boeing is bullish about prospects for its international fighters.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN teamed with GENERAL DYNAMICS, GULFSTREAM and L-3 to pursue U.S. Air Force Joint Stars recap program. RAYTHEON has $152.9m U.S. Navy contract for 53 APY-10 radar system production kits and related support for P-8A Poseidon full-rate production Lots 2-6 for the Navy (46) and the government of Australia (7).
U.S. Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Neffenger is being vetted for one of the most challenging jobs in government — overhauling the Transportation Security Administration. In early June acting administrator Melvin Carraway was yanked off the job by Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Several subsequently released reports by Homeland Security Department Inspector General shed light on why.
Flight testing of airborne sense-and-avoid technology for U.S. Air Force unmanned aircraft is set to transition from a Learjet manned surrogate to Northrop Grumman’s optionally piloted Firebird.
This is the first competition between SpaceX and United Launch Alliance since the former was certified to compete for U.S. national security launch contracts, breaking ULA’s near-decade monopoly in this arena. A request for proposals is expected in July.
NASA is upping its ante in the cubesat arena, with a request for proposals (RFP) designed to spur a commercial launch industry dedicated to the tiny spacecraft, and with separate plans to send two cubesats on a piggyback mission to Mars next year.
Even as it seeks industry input on its plans for a low-boom flight demonstrator, NASA has awarded a series of contracts to keep its research into quiet, clean supersonic transports progressing.
NEW DELHI—India is studying the development of a launch vehicle capable of orbiting satellites weighing up to 10 tons. The proposed Heavy-lift Launch Vehicle (HLV) is under study by a project team, according to a scientist from the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope report finding evidence that a large, hot planet orbiting a distant star has a stratosphere, holding promise that it may be possible to study atmospheric processes on exoplanets across interstellar space.
The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser CG 62 USS Chancellorsville and its crew of 350 sailors entered the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR) earlier this month.
Unless the full Senate rejects the appropriations panel action, Boeing and SpaceX face slow-downs in their NASA contracts to develop private capsules to transport astronauts to the International Space Station.
