A Lockheed Martin/Kaman K-Max helicopter has airlifted a simulated casualty in a demonstration of unmanned air and ground vehicles collaborating to enable medical evacuation.
The suborbital human spacecraft rose to an altitude of 307,000 ft. over West Texas on April 29, with a “perfect” first developmental flight of the crew capsule, but loss of the reusable cryogenic booster to a hydraulic system failure.
India has made further progress toward the goal of putting heavy satellites into orbit with the successful testing of an indigenous cryogenic rocket engine, a senior space official says.
France has garnered its third export order for the Rafale combat jet in as many months with a commitment from Qatar to purchase at least 24 of the Dassault Aviation aircraft, an agreement that eases pressure on French defense spending.
A camera aboard NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has started generating tantalizing views of Pluto rotating on its sharply tilted axis, presenting patches of bright and dark material as it spins around a pole that appears to be covered with a cap of ice.
Amid a growing consensus in the U.S. government that space assets – commercial, civil or defense – are no longer safe in orbit, the U.S. Air Force and six top commercial operators are establishing a first-of-a-kind pilot program to improve data exchange among them.
An extra $5 billion set aside in the U.S. Air Force’s black and white budget plan for fiscal 2016 is largely dedicated to projects for shoring up and protecting space assets, says Air Force Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, military deputy to the service’s procurement czar.
Along with another $1 billion for the F-35, the HASC proposes adding $1.15 billion to buy 12 additional F/A-18 Super Hornets and $682.7 million for the A-10 Thunderbolt II, which the U.S. Air Force seeks to retire.
Russia’s troubled Progress 59 cargo spacecraft is unable to dock with the International Space Station and will make an uncontrolled re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, U.S. and Russian flight controllers told the orbiting lab’s six-member crew on April 29..
Set to launch on an Atlas V from Cape Canaveral on May 20, the fourth flight of the mysterious X-37B testbed will include a Hall-thruster experiment designed to test modifications to the AEHF satellite thrusters that are designed to improve performance.
An air defense missile system is at the top of the Swedish navy’s wish list of new capabilities for its Visby-class stealth corvettes, service chief of staff Rear Adm. Jan Thornquist said here on April 29.
Senior leaders from the U.S. and Republic of Korea navies met at the headquarters of the Republic of Korea Fleet earlier this month for a series of staff talks on anti-submarine warfare (ASW) cooperation, U.S. Navy officials say.
On Wednesday the full House Armed Services Committee marks up the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, following last week’s series of subcommittee markups. And the House Science, Space and Technology Committee marks up NASA authorization legislation for fiscal 2016-2017 on Thursday. Meanwhile, the Senate Armed Services Committee discusses U.S. security policy on Europe on Tuesday morning, and on Wednesday afternoon reviews the U.S. Air Force’s military space programs with service secretary Deborah James, Air Force Space Command chief Gen.
UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY’S SPACE DYNAMICS LABORATORY received U.S. patent for Multiple Petal Deployable Telescope, designed to allow precision deployment of larger telescopes on small satellites, positioned within nanometers. PARAGON has subcontract to provide Humidity Control Subassembly (HCS) for BOEING CST-100 crew capsule under development for NASA.
Senior navy leaders from the U.S. 7th Fleet and People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) met earlier this month in Zhanjiang, China, “for a professional exchange of ideas” in a variety of technical and operational topics on board the Chinese ship Mount Jinggang at PLAN South Sea Fleet Headquarters, U.S. Navy officials say.
A Mars-exploration architecture conceived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as an exercise to keep its engineers on the cutting edge can help garner support for NASA’s open-ended “Evolving Mars” approach to sending humans to the Red Planet, according to the JPL official who ordered the study.
The Swedish government’s newly issued defense bill adds 10.2 billion Swedish kronor ($1.2 billion) to the overall budget for 2016-20 and identifies a number of priorities for the force, according to air force chief of staff Col. Marcus Bjorkgren.
American and Japanese national security leaders detailed new guidelines for U.S.-Japan defense cooperation on April 27, saying the rules will promote peace and stability in the region and worldwide, Defense Department officials say.
