After eyeing a low-cost launch opportunity on a Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) rocket, Airbus Defense and Space has selected an Ariane 5 to lift its second European Data Relay System (EDRS) spacecraft to geostationary orbit in the first quarter of 2017.
Germany is backing away from the global arms export trade, China is closer to becoming a net exporter, and the U.S. and Russia are almost neck and neck in providing the most weaponry abroad.
The restructuring of Italian aerospace and defense conglomerate Finmeccanica is already having a positive effect on the company’s results, CEO Mauro Moretti says.
With concrete accomplishments in the previous year, the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class submarine replacement program (ORP) looks to be in good shape, according to the recent annual report of Pentagon reviews by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
GENERAL ATOMICS has $132m U.S. Army contract for 19 Gray Eagle UAVs, 19 Satcom Air Data Terminals, spares & support equipment, due May 31, 2017. Meanwhile, Predator/Gray Eagle fleet reached 1m cumulative flight hours – 90% in combat – on Feb. 20 after flying 78,606 sorties; first flight occurred in Palmdale, CA, on Feb. 2, 2001.
NASA’s inspector general has warned the agency that it may be moving too fast on developing the ground infrastructure for launching its planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion crew capsule.
The transition is coming as the Army has secured funding for the 3,000-shp future helicopter engine program, from fiscal 2016 and beyond despite ongoing defense budget pressure.
The U.S. Air Force has released the initial request for information (RFI) for a replacement for its T-38 trainer, the T-X Advanced Pilot Training Family of Systems (ATP FoS).
The Australian army’s Tiger helicopters, still not fully operational for service more than 10 years after the first aircraft were delivered, are on track to meet a key availability target next year, manufacturer Airbus says.
The need and obstacles in continuing the U.S. rebalance to what the nation’s maritime services now call the Indo-Asia-Pacific region are highlighted in the service’s “Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower: Forward, Engaged, Ready,” released earlier this month.
The vision impairment was outlined in the American Academy of Ophthalmology in late 2011 and experienced by two-thirds of astronauts assigned to the International Space Station.
The proposed price tag for the U.S. Navy’s Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) is now about $4.1 billion, compared to about $4.8 billion a year ago, according to the recently released annual U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on Pentagon program spending.
Boeing and Saab are targeting the jointly developed ground-launched Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) at Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) operators that are demilitarizing their M26 artillery rockets to comply with the Olso Convention on cluster munitions.
The U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine SSN 706 USS Albuquerque partnered with the Australian navy earlier this month to strengthen its warfare capabilities through the annual joint exercise Lungfish 2015, U.S. Navy officials say.
Sierra Nevada Corp. will use folding wings and a pressurized/unpressurized “cargo trailer” with the Dream Chaser Cargo System it has entered in NASA’s second-round competition for unmanned vehicles to deliver cargo to the International Space Station (ISS).
Russia plans to test its Angara rocket in 2016 with a real payload. The heavy lifter is scheduled to enter service in 2021 and replace the Proton launcher in 2025.
Sierra Nevada Corp. will use folding wings and a pressurized/unpressurized “cargo trailer” with the Dream Chaser Cargo System it has entered in NASA’s second-round competition for unmanned vehicles to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
The top U.S. Air Force officer overseeing the service’s KC-46A refueling aircraft contract is casting doubt on whether prime contractor Boeing will achieve its new first flight date for the first tanker in April.
NASA has not completely given up on extending the long-running missions of the Opportunity Mars rover and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter for another year.
