The NASA-led International Space Station’s Mission Management Team is preparing for a possible unplanned spacewalk on Dec. 21 or 22 to move and secure the space station’s mobile transporter.
The destroyer DDG 1000 Zumwalt assisted with a rescue mission earlier this month while on sea trials about 40 nm southeast of Portland, Maine, the U.S. Coast Guard says.
NASA’s Curiosity rover is finding puzzling clues of a changing environment on ancient Mars as the robotic geologist travels up the base of Mount Sharp.
Active terrain on Pluto discovered in the New Horizons probe’s July 14 flyby appears to be driven by a thick layer of nitrogen ice at the bottom of the heart-shaped basin dubbed Sputnik Planum.
The amphibious assault ship LHA 6USS America is the first West Coast ship to have its flight deck upgraded with a thermal spray coating in key landing areas in order to more fully support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighters
Turbomeca’s Arrius 2R turboshaft—the first European engine to be fitted to a Bell-produced helicopter—has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
The arms sales to Taiwan announced by the Obama administration earlier this month will help boost the Asian country’s missile and naval operations, according to sources familiar with the deal.
The future DDG 115 USS Rafael Peralta achieved “light off” of its Aegis Combat System earlier this month at the Bath Iron Works (BIW) shipyard, U.S. Navy officials say.
As Japan, South Korea (ROK), and China start to work on better trilateral relationships, security concerns continue to drive wedges between the nations, says Evans Revere, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a senior adviser with the Albright Stonebridge Group.
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Turbomeca’s Arrius 2R turboshaft—the first European engine to be fitted to a Bell-produced helicopter—has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
As the U.S. Navy prepares its budget submissions for the upcoming fiscal year, the U.S. Defense Department wants the Navy to buy 31 more F-35Cs, upgrade current aircraft and cut its fleet of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) or follow-on frigates (FF).
A recent preliminary design review of the AR-1 rocket engine was successful, ensuring the project is on track for full-scale testing in 2017 followed by delivery of a flight qualified unit in 2019 in preparation for certification, according to Aerojet Rocketdyne officials.
Flight testing is due to begin next year for an upgrade of the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) T-50 trainer aimed at the U.S. Air Force’s T-X requirement.
Airbus Helicopters has delivered the first NH90 in an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) configuration to the Swedish military, which now plans to increase the number of aircraft it will buy.
India-based Aequs will supply machined components to Dutch firm Fokker Technologies for assembling Boeing’s Chinook helicopters, which India is also buying.
Through partnerships and investments, defense primes and OEMs are increasingly turning the page away from the old playbook of acquiring and subsuming new technology.
The six-nation UCAV demonstrator completed an initial phase in November 2015, but will continue flight trials in 2016 and potentially beyond. In a parallel effort, Britain has just completed a third round of flight tests of its Taranis UCAV demonstrator. And a four-nation effort, led by Germany, is to begin designing an unmanned ISR platform in the spring of 2016.
Congress's defense spending bill includes funding for 68 Lockheed Martin-made F-35 Joint Strike Fighters – 11 more than President Barack Obama requested.
Managers in NASA’s Human Exploration and Operations mission directorate are adding some detail to their vague concept of handing off low Earth Orbit (LEO) to the private sector while they move on to the cislunar “proving ground” for Mars missions.
