The Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft is scheduled to depart the station’s Russian segment with NASA’s Terry Virts, the current ISS commander; the European Space Agency’s Samantha Cristoforetti; and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov at 6:20 a.m. EDT.
Terran Orbital, a U.S. cubesat-services startup with origins in one of the engineering schools that developed the tiny nanosats as a teaching tool, has branched out to Europe with a new office in Turin, Italy, intended in part to avoid U.S. export-control regulations.
Business is brisk for U.S. naval aviators, putting pressure on funding and other resources needed for training, maintenance and even availability, officials and analysts say.
Engineers at Naval Ship Systems Engineering Station (Navsses) recently completed installation and testing of a digital voltage regulator (DVR) on the mine countermeasure (MCM) ship USS Scout (MCM 8).
The U.S. should keep applying pressure in the increasingly contentious island disputes involving China and its neighbors by showing how those problems affect sea security, says Mira Rapp-Hooper, an East Asian analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Northrop Grumman has unveiled the first of five Block 40-standard RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles for NATO’s Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) program amid growing company hopes of additional sales to individual member nations.
NASA says it is pleased with how various hardware and software changes being implemented at the Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center debuted during Exploration Flight Test-1, the first unpiloted orbital test flight of the Orion crew exploration capsule in late 2014.
NASA faces more funding uncertainty this summer as the Republican-drafted spending bill for the agency heads for the Senate in the face of a White House veto threat.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar reaffirmed their commitment to expand and deepen their countries’ bilateral defense relationship earlier this month in a meeting in India during Carter’s swing through the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.
While concerns raised by the Pentagon Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) continue to dog certain major shipbuilding and aircraft programs, most testing and evaluation disputes do not make the involved programs lose schedule or go over budget, a recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report says.
India is targeting July/August to launch the GSAT-6 communications satellite to provide strategic application-based services to mobile phone users and vehicles as well as to help with scientific experiments.
The U.S. Defense Department is ready to take more chances to field more technologically advanced programs more quickly, and both industry and government officials say it is about time.
As the U.S. Navy continues to pursue an operational shipboard laser, interest is growing in ensuring the systems will work reliably and effectively in the demanding maritime environment.
LOCKHEED MARTIN completed assembly and began critical environmental testing of NOAA GOES-R satellite in Denver. RAYTHEON has $149m U.S. Navy contract for 74 Standard Missile-6 all-up rounds, spares, containers and services. GENERAL ATOMICS AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS delivered third Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper to French defense ministry, joining two other Reapers in service that have logged 4,000 flight hr. since January 2014.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is directing government departments and agencies to make their fiscal 2017 discretionary budget requests 5% lower than the fiscal 2017 projection in their respective fiscal 2016 budget plans, unless otherwise directed. “In working toward this funding target, all agencies should include sufficient funding for ongoing Presidential priorities and continue efforts to increase effectiveness and reduce fragmentation, overlap and duplication,” OMB says in a letter dated May 1.
Hubble Telescope images have revealed that Pluto and its five moons orbit in a complex choreography unlike anything else in the Solar System, which could be bad news for NASA’s New Horizons probe.
Flight data analysis shows that the fatal crash of an A400M airlifter in Spain on May 9 is attributable to problems with the aircraft’s engine electronic control units, officials from Airbus Defense and Space and Spain’s military accident investigation service, CITAAM, have confirmed.
Sikorsky Aircraft plans to cut more than 1,400 production-related jobs globally over the next year and close a facility in Connecticut, the company said June 2.
