Following up on the legacy of NASA’s aging Great Observatories may depend on breaking a cost spiral that has delayed the JWST and threatened the WFIRST.
The JAXA Hayabusa 2 mission team thinks there is “high potential” that the first attempt at a sample collection from the surface of the near Earth asteroid Ryugu was successful.
Mars’ northern hemisphere was dotted with at least two dozen large craters that appear to have been filled by groundwater about 3 1/2 billion years ago, and possibly part of a global subsurface aquifer, according to observations gathered by Mars orbiters.
Acknowledging the reusable rocket technology pioneered by SpaceX and Blue Origin, the U.S. Air Force has dropped the word “expendable” from the name of its orbital launch services acquisition program.
The U.S. Army is considering extended-range, maritime strike versions of the Precision Strike Missile as the U.S. government negotiates a withdrawal from the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Saudi Arabia has signed a $945 million downpayment for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system from Lockheed Martin, the Defense Department announced March 4.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense is likely to move ahead with an attack helicopter acquisition in 2019, even though the program was left out of a five-year procurement plan published in December, an industry source says.
The new vehicle, Dragon 2, is designed, built, owned and operated by SpaceX, with financial backing, technical expertise and oversight provided by NASA.
POLAND announced plans to purchase “5th generation” fighter as soon as possible, following release of new military modernization plan covering through 2026 containing a bump in spending from $37b to $49b.
Honeywell plans to display a hybrid-electric turbogenerator for the urban air mobility market at the Helicopter Association International’s Heli-Expo show in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 5-7.
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Singapore will buy four Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) for initial testing, with an option for eight more, its defense minister says.
“As of this morning we are still not accepting KC-46s, and I believe that will continue for some time,” Will Roper, assistant secretary of the Air Force for acquisition, told journalists March 1
