FAA technicians who are not being paid during the U.S. government shutdown maintain the communications, navigation and surveillance equipment that air traffic controllers—also unpaid—rely on to safely separate air traffic.
A study of natural killer immune cell function in astronauts during long stays on the ISS suggests explorers on much lengthier space voyages could face health risks severe enough to challenge mission success.
Virgin Galactic has announced that U.S. apparel and footwear maker Under Armour will design and fabricate spacesuits for both its passengers and pilots.
Tecmotiv (USA) Inc., Niagara Falls, New York, has been awarded a $19,644,207 firm-fixed-price Foreign Military Sales (Egypt) contract for M60 engine overhaul parts package.
The first six of a planned 600-member broadband sat constellation owned and operated by OneWeb arrived at the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on Jan. 22.
United Technologies expects high-single digit organic sales growth at engine-maker Pratt & Whitney this year, and mid-single digits at the new Collins Aerospace.
Earth’s life-essential elements may have been delivered through the same impact with a Mars-sized planetary body that produced the Moon more than 4.4 billion years ago, a research effort says.
A government watchdog organization is concerned that the U.S. Army plans to mature technology for Future Vertical Lift, long-range precision fires and air and missile defense modernization to a level lower than recommended by leading practices.
AeroVironment’s secretive, high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) program aimed at the 5G market has “generated close to $75 million-plus” worth of orders.
FAA said it received two reports from incoming flights to EWR at 5 p.m. local time of a drone flying at about 3,500 ft. above Teterboro, New Jersey, to the northeast.
NASA astronaut Eric Boe, one of three crewmembers assigned to make a flight test aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, has been pulled from the mission.
