“In our judgment, NASA’s current plan to transition the station to commercial operation by 2025 is fraught with challenges and uncertainty,” the agency's inspector general says.
With backing from Airbus Ventures, commercial space situational awareness provider LeoLabs is to expand its ground-radar network to track smaller objects in low Earth orbit.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is expected to transmit its first extra solar system planet search data back to Earth in early August.
Sofia has requested formation from France, Germany Israel, Italy, Portugal, Sweden and the U.S. Among the types requested include new-build F-16 Block 70s from the U.S.
“The three firms and their partners will work with the URSC to [each] assemble at least three small to medium satellites every year, to have 27 satellites by the end of 2021,” ISRO says.
The aircraft carrier modifications needed to accommodate the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25A Stingray unmanned refueling tanker revolve around preparing mission control space and installing control and connectivity testing.
As the UK prepares to leave the European Union, its aerospace research universities are joining forces to create a national aviation consortium to provide a single point of engagement with the global aerospace industry.
UK universities prepare for Brexit; Singapore paves way for urban drones; UTAS expands “see-all” ISR sensor; wanted: airborne lidar standards; food aid delivery by drone.
There will be a Defense Acquisition Board (DAB) meeting this fall that nails down the cost and schedule of the F-35 Block 4, the Pentagon acquisition chief says.
U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis says congressional legislation not authorizing the transfer of F-35s to Turkey has not impacted the two countries’ military relationship.
The Pentagon disseminated a “do not buy list” to industry making sure military weapon systems are not operating on software that has Russian or Chinese ties, the department’s acquisition executive says. Pentagon acquisition chief Ellen Lord told reporters her office began working on the list “in earnest” about six months ago. The Defense Department is working closely with the intelligence community to identify companies who do not operate in a way consistent for defense technology standards.
India’s space agency is preparing for a hectic end of 2018, with several rocket launches planned from September onward, the country’s top scientist says.
NASA is being urged to divorce itself from selecting the lowest credible bidder for its most technically challenging and costly science mission initiatives in the wake of the James Webb Space Telescope's problems.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) plans to award UTC Aerospace Systems (UTAS) a contract to develop and test a multi-phenomenology sensor package for its MS-177 multi-sensor, long-range imaging sensor now flying on the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk.
Aerostructures manufacturer Spirit AeroSystems is developing a new method for shaping titanium raw material at elevated temperatures as a cost-saving measure.
