The test, which culminated with splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean just offshore, marks a major milestone on the road to using the Crew Dragon for human missions to the International Space Station in 2017.
NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission is ratcheting up its search for and characterization of potential ice deposits in permanently shadowed craters at the Moon’s south pole, following a pair of altitude-lowering maneuvers.
Russian Helicopters has delivered the first two repaired Ka-31 airborne early warning helicopters to India, with the remaining four helos to be handed over in the “near future.”
While lawmakers continue to debate the construction program for future Ford-class aircraft carriers, work continues to inactivate the first nuclear-powered carrier in Tidewater, Virginia.
The U.S. Navy’s Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 7 completed its annual Fleet Synthetic Training - Joint Exercise (FST-J) 15-72 aboard the amphibious assault ship LHD 6 USS Bonhomme Richard earlier this month.
The suit Draper is developing would give space crews physical cues to help them feel an arbitrary direction – toward one side of a module, for example – in place of the sense of “down” they receive from gravity on the ground.
“I am one who believes that if your goal becomes the Moon, and you say you want to go on to Mars from there one day, then one day never comes,” the NASA administrator says.
SpaceX’s planned pad abort test for the Crew Dragon vehicle appears to be staying on track for May 6 following a successful ground firing of thrusters at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral.
India has lined up six indigenous satellites and 13 foreign satellites to be launched over the next year, putting the country’s space agency in the global limelight, according to Junior Minister for Space Jitendra Singh.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) is hoping to deliver the first B models of the T129 ATAK attack helicopter to the Turkish Land Forces by year’s end.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) is accelerating flight tests of its Hurkus turboprop trainer as it pushes to get more advanced versions of the aircraft into service with the country’s air force.
The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing an $118.1 million modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract earlier this month to buy training systems and materials in support of the P-8A Multi-mission maritime aircraft for the Navy and the Australian government.
NASA plans to dynamically test flexible wing technology on a modified Gulfstream III later this year after successfully completing initial trials of a morphing flap at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California.
Boeing and Liquid Robotics are hoping to ride the wave of new naval needs for better maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and communications with a new watercraft they call the Sensor Hosting Autonomous Remote Craft (Sharc).
The U.S. Navy failed to take into account concerns raised by the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) when awarding a recent $576 million contract for aircraft engine spare parts, the Pentagon Inspector General (IG) says.
Astronauts on deep-space missions risk significant damage to their central nervous systems from galactic cosmic radiation (GCR), which could diminish their abilities to deal with mission-critical events, according to a new study from NASA’s Human Research Program.
The Norwegian government has issued a request for information (RFI) to helicopter manufacturers for a new fleet of up to nine aircraft to support the country’s special forces operations.
“Ongoing debate about whether the primary role of the Uclass system should be mainly surveillance with limited strike or mainly strike with limited surveillance has delayed the program,” GAO notes. “Requirements emphasizing a strike role with limited surveillance could be more demanding and costly.”
The U.S. Navy plans to use additive manufacturing (AM), often referred to as 3D printing, for a variety of technology enhancements such as self-sustaining ships, bio-printing and “energetic” service, officials say.
