The DOD is on track to establish a U.S. Space Command this month, and there is “a lot of angst” in the U.S. Army over determining roles and responsibilities.
The Pentagon continues to rally Congress to fund hypersonic missile programs, but is still falling short as a top House appropriator says he intends to not fully fund the effort in fiscal 2020.
The U.S. Air Force has assigned the X-61A designation to the Dynetics Gremlin about five months before the first scheduled flight demonstration of the UAV.
SpaceX’s first dedicated small sat rideshare mission provided dozens of startups the chance to test novel cubesat systems in LEO, but nine months after launch, owners of 12 spacecraft have yet to claim ownership of their birds.
“None of this will happen if our team is unable to convince the Congress that we need to take a right turn in our space architecture,” Mike Griffin, undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, said.
The Range Systems Branch of the Armament Directorate at Eglin AFB, Florida, has opened a market survey to evaluate options for replacing the ubiquitous P5 Combat Training System.
“I think it was the right decision to pause the program. I call it a strategic pause to make sure we were doing things right,” Vice Adm. Jon Hill, MDA director, said here Aug. 8 during the Space and Missile Defense Symposium.
Online retailer Amazon is seeking exemptions from the FAA to operate its Prime Air drone delivery service as an air carrier under the agency’s Part 135 regulation.
Working from the ground up to identify early opportunities and project demand for urban air mobility in 74 cities worldwide, a new report forecasts a 20-year market value of $318 billion across operators, vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure providers.
NASA this week conducted a successful 12-min. test of the abort-to-orbit profile afforded the Orion crew capsule by the multinational propulsion elements of its European Space Agency-provided service module.
Maxar's CFO Biggs Porter and CEO Dan Jablonsky declined to discuss details or comment on recent market rumors, including potentially selling the flagship MDA business, but they did not rule out anything.
The U.S. Army will award a contract using other transaction authority within the next three weeks for a company to produce a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB), according to a service official.
Serving all customers in the region, the completion center is capable of simultaneously working on four medium helicopters, such as H175s. Assembly and delivery capacity is 20 helicopters a year.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V launched the U.S. Air Force’s fifth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite early Aug. 8 after several delays.
India’s space agency is building a new communication satellite, GSAT-7R, for the country’s navy to facilitate the exchange of information between its aircraft, warships and other elements.
Boeing remains committed to reaching mid-teen operating margins despite ongoing issues with the 737 MAX and growing trade tensions between the U.S. and China, Boeing Chairman, CEO and President Dennis Muilenburg said Aug. 7.
The demonstrator is being considered under JAXA’s proposed S4 program (for System integration of Silent SuperSonic airplane technologies). If funded, the S4TD technology demonstrator could fly by around 2026.
The DOD is conducting a “zero-based review” of all department functions and activities to identify time, money and manpower funding that can be reallocated to its high priorities in support of the National Defense Strategy.
The Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Force Test Center have achieved over 13,000 lb. thrust during ground tests of a Northrop Grumman-developed scramjet.
