A confirmed Israeli launch contract for a “rideshare” launch to the Moon has met the criteria for an extension of the Google Lunar X-Prize deadline until the end of 2017, setting the stage for an international space race for the first private landing there.
Cygnus' next mission, which is set to launch in December on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, represents part of Orbital ATK’s return-to-flight operations following the loss of its Antares rocket on the Orb-3 resupply mission last October.
Lockheed and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) are preparing to test a modified F-16 flight control computer that will enable older, analog Air National Guard Block 30 F-16s to be upgraded with automatic ground collision avoidance systems.
LONDON — Airbus Helicopters is urging the Japanese ministry of defense to re-consider its selection of Bell’s Model 412 for its UH-X utility helicopter program. &
The large amount of collected and stored data on the condition of Boeing F-18s and Lockheed Martin F-35s can make it difficult to properly assess any problems and fix them before the aircraft are needed again, says an engineer working on the problem.
General Electric’s T700 is one of the most-produced military engines. Now the U.S. Army has launched a competition to replace the popular turboshaft and reengine its AH-64 Apaches and UH-60 Black Hawks.
Representatives from NASA and the agency’s International Space Station partners have agreed to a major update to a five-year-old universal docking system standard intended to nurture increased global and commercial cooperation—including crew rescue.
The Pentagon's undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics suggests a “national security consideration” be formally introduced in Washington’s merger & acquisition review processes.
GSAT-6 was “successfully positioned in its orbital slot of 83 degrees east on Oct. 4, after carrying out four drift-arresting maneuvers,” a senior ISRO scientist says.
While all U.S. military services’ budgets would be affected by an extended budget resolution, the U.S. Navy faces even tougher challenges because of the way its shipbuilding and conversion (SCN) account for vessel programs is set up, defense analysts note.
The U.S. aviation group charged with developing standards to enable unmanned aircraft to fly in unrestricted aircraft has completed the first documents for key systems, but cautions they are limited in scope and application.
Fearing cyberattacks that could disable essential systems, U.S. Office of Naval Research is developing a technique to protect onboard computers from being hacked.
Dec. 11 is close to Christmas and ought to bring tidings of good cheer. But as the new “fiscal cliff” deadline approaches, it could feel a lot more like Halloween.
The U.S. Navy has released videos of the F-35C Lightning II undergoing the second phase of developmental tests aboard USS Eisenhower in the Atlantic Ocean.
The system integration laboratory for the team’s SB-1 Defiant demonstrator will fire up this year, followed in 2016 by the propulsion system test bed for the rigid coaxial-rotor compound helicopter.
Darpa’s Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (Talons) program harks back to World War II, when Focke-Achgelis FA-330 rotary-wing kites were towed behind German U-boats.
The Astraea (Autonomous Systems Technology Related Airborne Evaluation & Assessment) program just completed 18 months of work on a virtual certification process, but has no funding in place for its next phase.
Antrix Corporation Ltd., the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), has been ordered by an international tribunal to pay compensation and damages totaling $672 million to Devas Multimedia Pvt. Ltd.
