NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission team has announced plans for an Oct. 27 early stow of the spacecraft’s Touch and Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism collection head into the probe’s Sample Return Capsule to minimize the loss of material collected from the asteroid Bennu.
Wichita aerostructures giant Spirit AeroSystems has struck a 45% cash discount with Bombardier for the latter’s Short Brothers capacity in Northern Ireland, as well as Bombardier Aerospace North Africa and most of a Dallas MRO site.
The U.S. Space Force has not closed the door on helping industry fund a “manufacturing on orbit” concept, meaning building parts for satellites while in space, according to the service’s acquisition executive.
It is tempting to speculate that Lockheed’s third-quarter, classified earnings windfall—accounting for 26% of a year-over-year, $502 million sales increase for Aeronautics—is based on something we already know about.
NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission team is expediting efforts to secure the material collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu after a camera scan of the sample container revealed some of the scientific bounty escaping.
British unmanned technologies firm Blue Bear Systems has demonstrated the swarming of 20 unmanned air systems of different types in a beyond-visual-line-of-sight flight.
NASA recently conducted certification baseline reviews of the three U.S. companies vying to make landers that will transport astronauts to the Moon by 2024—Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX.
Weighing just 33 grams and launched by hand to scout ahead of soldiers on foot, FLIR Systems’ Black Hornet 3 unmanned aircraft is now able to autonomously retrace its steps and re-establish contact with its operator if it loses GPS or communications while reconnoitering the inside of a building.
The crew of the International Space Station has temporarily sealed the non-life-threatening air leak first noticed a year ago in the Russian Zvezda service module.
Italian aircraft manufacturer Tecnam has partnered with Rolls-Royce to develop the nine-passenger P-Volt, an all-electric version of the P2012 Traveller regional aircraft.
The ODIN Base Kit (OBK)—comprised of two transportable cases weighing less than 70 lb. each—replaces an 800-lb. server rack of the Lockheed Autonomic Logistics Information System (ALIS).
The U.S. Space Force aims to establish a new acquisition arm, Space Systems Command, by spring 2021, but the Pentagon is still hammering out the details, according to the chief of space operations.
The Directorate’s Direct Attack Division published a broad agency announcement on Oct. 19 calling for a study of a next generation Global Precision Attack Weapon.
