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To list an event, send information in calendar format to Donna Thomas at [email protected] . (Bold type indicates new calendar listing.) July 28-30 — AIAA Propulsion and Energy 2014 Forum and Exposition, Cleveland, Ohio. For more information go to www.aiaa.org/propulsionevergy2014 July 29-31 — 57th Annual Fuze Conference, Newark Liberty International Airport Marriott, Newark, New Jersey. For more information go to www.ndia.org/meetings/4560/Pages/default.aspx

FARNBOROUGH — Within the next three years, Lockheed Martin Space Systems expects more than half of its A2100 satellite bus to be built through

By Bradley Perrett
South Korea has chosen Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) over Korean Air Lines (KAL) as the preferred bidder for a utility helicopter program that may

By Bradley Perrett
BORDER PROTEST: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has sustained a protest by Raytheon over the awarding of a contract to EFW, Inc., of

While still in the middle of what the U.S. Helicopter Safety Team (USHST) calls the deadliest month for helicopters, the organization is seeing

Sierra Nevada Corp. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will work together to find potential uses – and alternative launchers – for the

HOUSTON — A multinational team of astronauts, submerged on the Atlantic seabed off Key Largo, Florida, this week, is testing drills, coring tools and

HOUSTON — NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, launched 15 years ago this week, appears fit for another decade or more of observations, characterizing

With its final planned scientific orbiter scheduled to reach Mars in September, NASA is exploring the possibility of taking a commercial approach to

HOUSTON — Russia’s Progress 56 spacecraft docked with the International Space Station late July 23, six hours after lifting off from the Baikonur

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With mounting evidence that Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by Ukrainian separatist rebels who believed they were engaging a military

By Guy Norris
LOS ANGELES — Boeing has revealed previously undisclosed development issues with wiring bundles on the KC-46A tanker for the U.S. Air Force, but says

TELKOM-3S: Thales Alenia Space of France and Italy has signed a contract to build a multiband telecommunications satellite for Indonesian telecom

By Jen DiMascio
With attacks on Israel so intense that the FAA has banned flights to Tel Aviv, the U.S. is looking to speed production of the Iron Dome counter-rocket

NASA continues to fall short of its own requirements for fiscal caution in developing the heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS), and “may be $400

HONOLULU — The U.S. needs a longer-range, surface-to-surface strike weapon in the Asia-Pacific, says Adm. Harry Harris, the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet

By Angus Batey
FARNBOROUGH — A British surveillance aircraft system, controversially scheduled for an early retirement in parliament’s 2010 defense review, is

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has selected U.S. commercial satellite manufacturer Space Systems/Loral (SSL) to integrate

HOUSTON – NASA and the U.S. Navy plan to team up again in late July and early August in the Pacific Ocean waters off San Diego to continue the

HONOLULU — The enigmatic nature of China continues to puzzle Adm. Harry Harris, the U.S. Navy Pacific Fleet commander. China’s actions during this

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By Bradley Perrett
The South Korean armed forces have killed off an attempt by Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) to reduce the cost and technical challenge of the

By Jen DiMascio
Increased tension between the U.S. and Russia following last week’s shootdown of a Malaysia Airlines 777 is adding fuel to U.S. efforts to consider an