The U.S. government has approved some U.S. allies to purchase the AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar for use in forward-based mode through the Foreign Military Sales program.
The U.S. Navy’s reactions to China’s maritime maneuvers involving territorial disputes could affect the centuries-long definition of free-sea movement, according to the Congressional Research Service.
National Aerospace Solutions (NAS), led by Bechtel, has won the contract, potentially worth $1.5 billion over eight years, to take over key operations at the U.S. Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Complex from long-term incumbent Aerospace Testing Alliance, led by Jacobs Engineering Group.
India is Airbus’ first international market in which it has brought all its operations under a single company, as part of the Airbus Group’s “one roof” policy.
The French government reiterated June 10 its formal approval of the sale of state ownership in the Arianespace launch consortium to Airbus Safran Launchers, a joint venture set up to develop and produce Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle.
NASA astronaut Terry Virts, the European Space Agency’s Samantha Cristoforetti and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov landed just eight hours shy of having spent 200 days in orbit.
An 11-terabyte dataset that combines worldwide environmental measurements and the latest climate-simulation models is available for the public to use in forecasting possible changes to temperature and precipitation patterns though the year 2100. The NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) produced the dataset at the agency’s Advanced Supercomputing Center at Ames Research Center in California.
The figure is lower than the $1 billion commercial crew spending level set by the House, and well under the $1.244 billion NASA requested for the coming fiscal year. Without that requested level of funding, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has said repeatedly, the agency won’t be able to meet its contract obligations to Boeing and SpaceX for launches of their CST-100 and Crew Dragon vehicles by the end of 2017, as planned.
The move, confirmed by Stratolaunch, follows indications made in April by the Vulcan Aerospace parent company that it is broadening the scope of the project to launch several vehicle types with the giant “Roc” carrier aircraft it is building in Mojave, California.
“The solar sail is looking great, and we just could not be more pleased with the way it turned out, especially with all the ups and downs the project has been through,” Project Manager Doug Stetson says.
Swedish Defense Minister Peter Hultqvist, who is currently visiting India, has held detailed discussions with his Indian counterpart, Manohar Parrikar, and is understood to have made a proposal to sell Saab’s Gripen NG single-engine light combat aircraft to the Indian air force.
Manufacturer Raytheon says the RAM Block 2 is a significant performance upgrade that features enhanced kinematics, an evolved radio-frequency receiver, and an improved control system.
The U.S. along with 16 NATO and partner nations are participating in a Baltic Operations (Baltops) regional maritime exercise demonstrating various integrated military missions
To date, the air forces of Britain, Germany, Malaysia and Turkey have grounded their A400M aircraft in response to May's crash, even as France—the one nation that has continued to fly the A400M—reiterated its confidence in the airlifter’s safety and integrity.
NASA engineers believe they achieved a small but potentially significant advance in efforts to develop a supersonic inflatable decelerator and parachute for landing heavy payloads on Mars, despite some problems with a June 8 test.
