While maintaining strong support for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, lawmakers are worrying about the efficacy and cost of the Automated Logistics Information System (ALIS), the program’s gee-whiz maintenance tool.
The high cost and ambitious scope of two Brazilian military projects will lead to delays in the launching of other major projects, according to industry executives at the LAAD defense and security show here.
Human explorers would find many uses for an international “Moon station” after the International Space Station is shut down in the coming decade, says Johann-Dietrich Woerner, head of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
In response to a recent clarion call by the U.S. Navy to gain greater range for its missile attacks, Boeing says it has developed a kit to extend the range of its Harpoon antiship missile, in part by reducing the size of its warhead.
From new users to repeat customers, the nonprofit Center for the Advancement of Science in Space reports a growing interest in the International Space Station as a laboratory research platform.
NovaWurks has entered a commercial agreement with a Canadian startup to build a 40-satellite constellation of optical platforms using the mass-produced “satlets” it is developing with funding from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Darpa’s Phoenix satellite-recovery project.
Although Ad Astra Rocket Co. isn’t giving up on aspirations of interplanetary travel, the 10-year-old enterprise is focused firmly in the near term on ground-level refinements and a key demonstration of its novel plasma propulsion technologies through a new NASA Advanced Exploration Systems partnership agreement.
Honeywell, Inmarsat and satcoms technology specialist Kymeta are developing a Ka-band antenna for business and commercial aviation that should offer better broadband service and suit installation in smaller aircraft.
The 31st Space Symposium is underway this week in Colorado Springs, with a host of government and industry space speakers from around the world including NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, European Space Agency Director-General Jean-Jacques Dordain and U.S. Air Force Space Command chief Gen. John Hyten. Also this week is the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium near Washington. Meanwhile, inside the capital beltway U.S.
NASA doesn’t currently plan to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon, but it would be willing to accept a ride down from cislunar space on a vehicle provided by its international partners to enrich preparations for a human landing on Mars.
Saab and Embraer have signed an agreement covering joint development of the JAS 39E/F Gripen Next Generation fighter at the LAAD defense and security show in Rio De Janeiro.
SpaceX’s sixth Dragon commercial resupply mission spacecraft climbed to orbit April 14, initiating a three-day trip to the six-person International Space Station (ISS) with a 4,300-lb. cargo, following a 24-hr. weather delay.
French defense electronics firm ECA Group says it has developed a sensor capability for its IT180 rotary-wing UAV that allows operators to locate malicious UAV operators.
NASA’s next Mars lander is on track to meet its March 2016 launch date, as Lockheed Martin technicians here put the finishing touches on the Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) spacecraft.
The U.S. Navy has laid out an Advanced Growler road map for its Boeing EA-16G electronic attack aircraft, with potential upgrades including the Raytheon Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) pod, conformal fuel tanks and a wideband data link.
BAE Systems and partners are now halfway through the Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac frigate upgrade program, with the undocking of the fourth ship to be modernized, HMAS Warramunga.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) wants to see how the Aegis Ashore missile shield would handle antiaircraft missions, says James Sheridan, director of U.S. Navy Aegis programs for Lockheed Martin, prime contractor for the combat system. There is some discussion of antiaircraft warfare (AAW) capability for Aegis Ashore, Sheridan said April 6 during a media briefing in advance of this week’s annual Navy League Sea Air Space conference and symposium. “The MDA is asking for some studies,” Sheridan says.
The due-regard radar required for the U.S. Navy’s Northrop Grumman MQ-4C Triton to operate in international airspace will now be installed in the “multi-intelligence” version of the unmanned aircraft planned to become operational in 2020.
European launch consortium Arianespace has delayed a planned April 15 launch of Norway’s Thor 7 commercial communications satellite and the Franco-Italian Sicral 2 military comsat on an Ariane 5 rocket, due to a fluid-line problem on the vehicle’s upper stage.
Russian state-owned helicopter manufacturer, Russian Helicopters, says its revenue grew last year despite the challenges posed by the strength of the ruble against foreign currencies.
