Charles Elachi, the longtime director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has been selected as the 2016 recipient of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation’s National Space Trophy.
Engineers at Millennium Space Systems have started integrating the spacecraft bus that will host an experimental Overhead Persistent Infrared sensor for the U.S. Air Force.
Airbus Defence and Space has secured its first order of the year for the C295W transport and mission aircraft, with Mali becoming the 23rd nation to order.
India is planning to deploy electric propulsion technology to power satellites that will allow them to carry more transponders by saving weight on chemical propellants.
National Intelligence Director James Clapper has drawn a new distinction between intelligence satellite images and the intelligence products that are derived from those images.
India is planning to deploy electric propulsion technology to power satellites that will allow them to carry more transponders by saving weight on chemical propellants.
At China’s biggest military parade of recent times last Sept. 3, marking the end of World War II, Chinese President and PLA leader Xi Jinping announced that the PLA will shed 300,000 troops, signaling the start of a long-awaited structural reform of the world’s largest armed force.
Cockpit technology shrinks combat vehicles; Google testing Internet from the air; DLR seeks end to reentry blackout; TsAGI tests convertiplane UAV; Bristow buys into Sky-Futures.
With S-76 and UH-60MU autonomy testbeds flying, Sikorsky looks ahead to flying optionally piloted UH-60A and fielding advanced capabilities enabled by fly-by-wire across the Black Hawk fleet.
Most countries struggle with the usual budget limitations and a broad array of fleet replacement and new aircraft needs. But in the case of Singapore, there is a very interesting capability gap that implies a significant short-term requirement.
Once the development phase of the contract has been completed in 2018, the program will transition into a modernization program worth more than $50 billion, focused on cost reduction.
The need to provide the proper air defense for carrier strike groups is the driving force behind the U.S. Navy’s cruiser modernization plan, which sidelines the ships for some time.
At NASA’s Johnson Space Center, four women – a flight controller, scientist, medical doctor and aeronautical engineer – are simulating the most dynamic phases of a notional 715-day roundtrip mission to an asteroid.
German aerospace center DLR is teaming with Stanford University to test solutions to the familiar but often tense communications blackout that occurs when manned spacecraft re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere.
By incorporating more capabilities in the redesigned AMP tank round, the U.S. Army will reduce the need for tankers to make multiple ammunition choices based on perceived combat threats.
