The International Space Station has an ambitious schedule of research and reconfiguration ahead as it soon becomes home to its first two crewmembers prepared to spend a year aboard the six-person orbiting science laboratory.
Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases generated by human activity made 2014 the warmest year on record, NASA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported Friday.
India has removed the head of the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Avinash Chander, “to pave way for younger generation to head the nodal agency.” Chander’s contract will be terminated on Jan. 31, 15 months ahead of schedule.
U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh says he’s confident a strategy that will be proposed in the fiscal 2016 budget to mitigate a possible maintainer shortfall will allow the F-35A to achieve initial operational capability (IOC) by late 2016 as planned.
A U.S. Navy analysis of alternatives (AOA) highlights using V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft for carrier onboard delivery (COD) missions, says Sean Stackley, assistant Navy secretary for research, development and acquisition.
U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus says it is time to acknowledge the true roles of the successor vessel for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) – and even the LCS itself – and he is giving them more traditional Navy names.
Russia’s only widebody airliner – the Ilyushin Il-96 – is set to assume a new role after the January signing of a contract between the Russian defense ministry and United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) for two refueling tanker versions of the type.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has issued a request for information (RFI) concerning air-breathing propulsion systems that could enable new and dependable responsive launch vehicles to reach orbit and sub-orbit.
SpaceX is likely to succeed soon in its plan to fly back a Falcon 9 first stage for eventual reuse, but that doesn’t mean the California company is on the verge of disrupting the space launch industry, according to Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France’s Center National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES).
Super-fast speed is less of a priority now for Littoral Combat Ship-like vessels and their successors, says Vice Adm. Thomas Rowden, commander of Naval Surface Forces and the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
The British defense ministry has made significant strides in forecasting procurement and support costs, auditors say. But they warn that this work could be undone by what they describe as a high-risk reduction in spending.
U.S. and European crewmembers aboard the International Space Station retreated to the six-person orbiting lab’s Russian segment early Jan. 14 in response to an alarm that signaled a possible internal leak of toxic ammonia coolant from the NASA-monitored thermal control system.
The Pentagon is, once again, reversing its own position on which platform to use for its high-altitude reconnaissance mission – the venerable U-2 or Global Hawk unmanned aircraft.
Avinash Chander’s contract will be terminated on Jan. 31, 15 months ahead of schedule. A defense ministry official says Chander was removed because Prime Minister Narendra Modi is incensed by inordinate delays in various DRDO projects.
If U.S. Navy surface warfare officers – and the contractors out to please them – want a preview of what the relatively new surface warfare director has in mind for the future of the best fleet ships under his charge, they should look to the past.
Luxembourg-based fleet operator SES and the Luxembourg government will each invest €50 million ($59 million) to create a joint venture that will build and launch a satellite using military Ka-band and X-band radio frequencies that will be used by the Luxembourg government and NATO allies. The project will take out loans from Luxembourg banks for €125 million, the sum of which will be used to order the satellite, which is to be launched in late 2017, according to a Jan. 13 SES announcement.
The Institute of Medicine (IOM), an arm of the congressionally chartered National Academies, has found knowledge gaps on seven fronts in NASA’s evolving efforts to define and overcome the health risks confronting astronauts assigned to future long-duration and exploration missions.
