To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected]. (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) Jan. 20-22 — Sixth AHS International Specialists’ Meeting On Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems: Platform Design, Autonomy, Operator Workload Reduction and Network Centric Operations, Chandler, Arizona. For more information go to www.vtol.org/events/unmanned-rotorcraft-systems
RANGE GENERATION NEXT (RGNext), a joint venture of RAYTHEON and GENERAL DYNAMICS, has $1.5b, one-year contract to manage USAF space launch ranges at Cape Canaveral, FL, and Vandenberg AFB, CA. Work has multi-billion potential with options. BOEING delivered initial two F-22 simulators with its Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS) to USAF; a third will be delivered by end of 2015 and it plans to upgrade two others with CRVS, which provides high-res imagery for pilots to train with nearly 20/20 acuity.
Virgin Galactic is 90% through the structural build of its second SpaceShipTwo suborbital vehicle and plans to assume control of the test program from its development partner Scaled Composites when flights resume later this year.
The camera-toting rover crested at Cape Tribulation Jan. 6, just ahead of the 11th anniversary of the robotic spacecraft’s Jan. 25, 2004, landing for a primary surface mission that was to last just three months.
Lockheed Martin is still holding out hope that it can claw its way back into a Polish air defense system competition after Warsaw rejected the Medium Extended Air Defense System (Meads) from a competition last year.
India is aiming to get overhaul orders from countries operating Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters as state-run Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) delivered the first reconditioned aircraft to the Indian air force (IAF).
The U.S. Navy warded additional Consolidated Afloat Networks & Enterprise Services (CANES) deals earlier this month just weeks after the Government General Accounting Office (GAO) recommended the service reevaluate its former CANES transactions.
Lower oil prices could give a boost to small general aviation aircraft, small and mid-size business aircraft, fractional ownership companies and service providers if they are sustained, an aviation consultant says.
London Executive Aviation, a European business jet charter operator, is expanding its trans-Atlantic offerings and has been awarded FAA Part 129 status by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
An innovative orbiter that will combine active and passive microwave sensors to produce high-resolution global maps of topsoil moisture every two to three days is set for launch from Vandenberg AFB, California, on Jan. 29.
Triumph Group, based in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, closed on its agreement with Spirit AeroSystems to take over the production of Spirit’s money-losing Gulfstream G650 and G280 wing work in Tulsa, Okla., the company announced.
Lockheed Martin is hoping that the maturing threat of hypersonic re-entry vehicles from ambitious adversaries will spark interest in the company’s dormant plan to design a more powerful booster for the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) air defense system.
The U.S. Air Force has chosen RAF Lakenheath in the U.K. as its first base for the F-35A in Europe, and announced a significant upheaval in the USAF’s basing structure.
The 15-member International Space Station partnership would ideally like to host as many as a dozen astronauts aboard the orbiting research laboratory for up to a year, according to Mike Suffredini, NASA’s space station program manager.
Researchers intend to expose tiny soil-born flatworms – serving as surrogates for the human intestinal system – to salmonella, a bacteria responsible for intense food poisoning, during the fifth scheduled SpaceX resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Flytenow, a business that connects private pilots with passengers who want to share flight costs through the Internet, has filed a lawsuit against the FAA to continue its services.
Olathe, Kan.-based Garmin International says it has received certification for its Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast equipment for the Gulfstream G150.
PARIS – Airbus Safran Launchers, a joint venture that owns a 41% stake in Europe's Arianespace launch services company, will in the coming weeks acquire 34% of the rocket consortium currently owned by French space agency CNES, according to a senior Airbus Group official.
