Astronauts will be upgrading the International Space Station’s solar power system and focusing on future human deep space exploration research with a 7,300-lb.cargo to be launched to the station on June 3.
The 2.8-metric-ton-class aircraft would be a clean-sheet design aimed at meeting the UK Ministry of Defense’s rotary-wing unmanned air system (RWUAS) requirements.
Budget justification documents released by the Navy on May 29 list the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) and the Supersonic Propulsion Enabled Advanced Ramjet (SPEAR) demonstrators as candidates for the Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) Increment II program.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s fiscal 2022 budget request for $8.9 billion is a decrease of 2.5% compared to the previous year, but the agency continues to fund key programs like the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor and a Guam defense system to compete with China.
The Biden administration has proposed substantial boosts in spending across NASA’s human exploration, planetary science, and Earth science/climate research as part of a 2022 budget proposal that could ease the previous administration’s plans to return to the Moon’s surface with U.S. astronauts in 2024.
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2022 budget request proposed $936.7 million for the U.S. Space Development Agency, which is an increase of $600 million or 36% compared to the previous year.
Within a budget request for aeronautics research in fiscal 2022 of $914.8 million, up from $828.7 million enacted for 2021, NASA plans to accelerate the launch of the Sustainable Flight Demonstrator program to produce a full-scale, ultra-efficient subsonic X-plane.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency is working with Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy to build a transformable lunar robot to collect data on the Moon’s surface to use in development of a manned pressurized rover.
An electric-powered sailplane designed to ease challenges of training glider pilots has completed its experimental test phase and is being prepared for industrialization under a European-funded project.
The Pentagon’s fiscal 2022 budget request is designed to keep the U.S. up with China by proposing the largest R&D investment in history, $112 billion, according to a senior defense official.
The fiscal 2022 spending request forwarded to Congress on May 28 proposes fewer units of aircraft across all fleets, including fighters; mobility; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; and rotorcraft.
British aerostructures and aviation parts maker Senior Plc has been jockeying with a distressed-asset investment group, which recently made an offer to buy Senior for about $1.05 billion, the company revealed May 28.
The service’s fiscal 2022 budget request includes $65.5 billion for operations and maintenance, $21.3 billion for procurement and $12.8 billion for research, development, test and evaluation.
The White House is requesting that the U.S. Space Force’s budget grow by nearly 13% to $17.4 billion in fiscal 2022, according to budget documents obtained May 28 by Aviation Week.
