/site-files/aviationweek.com/files/uploads/2015/05/asd_05_14_2015_cht1.pdf Definition: The KC-46 Pegasus is a U.S. air-refueling tanker that is expected to reach initial operating capability (IOC) around 2017. It is produced by Boeing
TEXTRON hosted student pilots from the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School at Textron Aviation’s Wichita facilities to evaluate Scorpion ISR/strike jet and Beechcraft AT-6 light attack aircraft as part of school’s Capstone Project.
For the second year, the House Armed Services Committee has called for the Pentagon’s Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) to ensure that testing does not “unnecessarily impede program schedules or increase program costs.” And for the second year, the watchdog Project on Government Oversight (POGO) is opposing the provision. Last year, POGO asked Senate defense authorizers to keep it out of the final version of the defense policy bill.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) CEO Tory Bruno says he has no plans to let anyone else build the Atlas V rocket, despite the company’s stated plans to retire the vehicle early in the next decade.
Citing personal reasons involving her family, British soprano and prospective space tourist Sarah Brightman has withdrawn from a 10-day Russian Soyuz taxi mission to the International Space Station planned for a Sept. 1 launch with two Russian and European professional astronauts.
Sixteen C295s would be provided in flyaway condition by a Tata/Airbus team and 40 more from a new Indian production line. The proposals will now be considered by India’s defense cabinet committee for final approval.
Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth arrived in Subic Bay, Philippines, earlier this month following a routine patrol in international waters and airspace of the South China Sea near the Spratly Islands.
Adm. John Richardson, currently serving as director, Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, has been nominated to replace Adm. Jonathan Greenert as the country’s chief of naval operations (CNO).
The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17, and Destroyer Squadron (Desron) 1 participated in various bi-lateral training events earlier this month in the South China Sea with Malaysian air and surface units.
After briefings by NASA’s commercial crew program office and top Human Exploration and Operations managers, the independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) reported May 13 the agency current estimates a 1-in-200 chance a crew and vehicle will be lost on any given mission.
The NASA chair of the International Space Station (ISS) Mission Management Team (MMT) has endorsed Russia’s changes to ISS crew and cargo launch schedules in the aftermath of the late April Progress 59 resupply mission loss.
Scientists working on NASA’s long-term effort to gauge the effects of the space environment on the materials used to build spacecraft are happy to get a ride from the U.S. Air Force’s secretive X-37B program, but they haven’t been told exactly where the Boeing-built reusable spaceplane will take their latest materials-exposure experiment.
A joint project of NASA and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) designed to provide satellite data for rural development in the Third World is delivering bite-sized chunks of Earth-observation information from space to help authorities in Nepal respond to the deadly earthquakes there.
Engineers are having trouble extracting data from the flight data recorders of an A400M airlifter that crashed May 9 near Seville, Spain, killing four crewmembers.
India’s plan to procure midair refueler aircraft is progressing well, the country’s defense minister says, marking a major step to increase the operational reach of the air force.
BOEING was selected by Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) to supply P-8A Poseidon training system in 2018. VECTOR AEROSPACE was selected by Portuguese navy to provide structural repairs/systems upgrades on an Mk .95 Lynx in Gosport, U.K.
Russia’s federal space agency will delay near-term International Space Station Soyuz crew and Progress resupply launch and landing operations following the recent failed Progress M-27M cargo mission.
