Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin carried out the first of three planned spacewalks Nov. 17 to continue upgrades to the International Space Station’s Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module,.
The Space Launch System (SLS) met all performance expectations during its debut flight, which sent an uncrewed Orion capsule on its way to a distant lunar orbit.
Turboprop light attack aircraft could be a partial alternative answer to Ukraine’s air-defense needs as the country battles a growing threat of low-cost Iranian-made loitering munitions.
Representatives of almost 50 nations have pledged to continue helping Ukraine strengthen its air- and defense-missile systems during a Pentagon-led meeting.
U.S. Air Force plans include keeping Boeing F-15Es with higher-thrust engines for the long-term, leaving the majority of the fleet vulnerable to retirement.
The National Reconnaissance Office has opened a new call to industry for hyperspectral imagery, looking to see what technologies it can use for intelligence.
The Pentagon has failed its fifth straight audit and though the department has made movement toward cleaning up its books, the top official in charge of the effort says there should have been more progress.
SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System is to support the second and first NASA Artemis-era missions to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon under a $1.15 billion contract modification.
Japan is mulling a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellation of satellites to help it track modern hypersonic ballistic missiles, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun has reported.
The approvals help pave the way for the first planned orbital launch from the UK mainland for Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission using its air-launched LauncherOne space vehicle that will be carried by its modified Boeing 747.
The statement is the first official acknowledgment that the strike near the Polish village of Przewodow on Nov. 15 was not an errant or intentional attack by Russia.
