Orbital ATK plans to start ground tests next year of first elements for an all-new, next-generation launch vehicle to compete for the U.S. Air Force’s Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program.
The European Space Agency (ESA) will spend €5.25 billion ($5.75 billion) this year, an increase over the €4.43 billion the agency spent last year that includes a boost in funding from the European Commission.
A joint sea exercise between Indian and Japanese coast guards began Jan.15 in the southern Indian city of Chennai, with the goal of enhancing cooperation on anti-piracy operations and search-and-rescue missions.
NASA’s new Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO) places a fresh, top-level agency focus on the detection and tracking of asteroids and comets that could threaten Earth, as well as the coordination of interagency and intergovernmental response efforts.
Raytheon completed a successful captive flight test of a seeker designed for the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile, the company says. The seeker will enable Tomahawk to engage moving targets on land and at sea.
After its December first flight, NATO’s first Alliance Ground Surveillance Global Hawk is being mated with its radar sensor for test flights in the U.S. and Europe.
Sierra Nevada Corp. will join incumbents Orbital ATK and SpaceX in NASA’s $14 billion second-round contract to deliver cargo to the International Space Station.
Work on a deep-space cargo vehicle and a robotic lunar lander is included in a $1.3 billion budget request from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency for fiscal 2016.
Members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace will vote by Feb. 10 on whether to accept the terms of a new six-year contract extension tentatively agreed to with Boeing during secret negotiations.
The German government says it has begun negotiations with Israel to purchase the Israel Aerospace Industries Heron TP medium altitude, long-endurance unmanned air vehicle.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian says his country likely doubled its arms exports in 2015 to €16 billion, thanks in part to sales of Dassault Aviation’s Rafale combat jet to Egypt and Qatar last year.
Japanese engineers are preparing to build a combat-engine core, following progress in materials research for the low-bypass turbofan, intended for the country’s next fighter, the F-3.
NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft, on course to maneuver into orbit around Jupiter on July 4, has become the most distant solar-powered spacecraft ever, according to an update from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency claims the Dutch Safety Board (DSB) report into the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines MH17 contains “unsubstantiated and inaccurate” conclusions.
The big consumer electronics show in Las Vegas recently drew A&D eyeballs with chatter over autonomous cars, UAVs and the technology tie-in with the Pentagon’s Third Offset.
Australia has gone public on its airborne electronic intelligence program. In ordering two adapted Gulfstream business jets, it could hardly avoid doing so.
