The grounding of more than 100 C-130Hs will extend to months or even years, depending on how quickly new propeller systems can be procured from a production line that already has orders to work through while the service is searching across the globe for existing propellers to retrofit.
Astra Space on Nov. 8 announced layoffs of 16% of its workforce and $119 million in write-downs of assets as the struggling rocket startup seeks a “financial runway” into 2024 amid a major business plan change.
Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 8 stepped up preparations for Tropical Storm Nicole, which is expected to bring sustained winds of at least 39 mph to the area.
At the top of Air Mobility Command’s wish list, and among its biggest challenges, is connecting its aircraft through common datalinks and communication channels so that refueling tankers and airlifters can provide more to a fight beyond their traditional roles.
The Pentagon is consulting with Ukraine on how to integrate Western, NATO standard air defense systems with its existing stock of Soviet-era systems as the first U.S.-provided advanced ground-to-air missile systems have arrived in the country’s war with Russia.
Intelsat is turning to Switzerland-based SWISSto12 to provide a small geostationary satellite outfitted with 12 Ku-band transponders for regional communications services.
Shortly after its liftoff early Nov. 7 from NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus International Space Station resupply capsule experienced a difficulty with the deployment of the second of its two solar arrays.
The Netherlands Coastguard has introduced a new fleet of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft to support its environmental security and search-and-rescue missions.
Leonardo says Norway’s request to terminate its NH90 helicopter program is “legally groundless” and suggests Oslo’s claim misinterprets the contract and the country’s own law.
Give the Ukrainian military Saab Gripen C/D fighters and Textron Systems CBU-105 Sensor Fused Weapon munitions soon, a UK-based defense think-tank recommends.
The first of the UK Royal Air Force’s new Boeing E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft has had its radar fitted in a milestone of the conversion process.
The Antares' cargo delivery of 8,265 lb. represents an increased launch capability of about 154 lb. (70 kg) due to modifications to the rocket’s secondary support structure.
An independent review board has concluded that a number of factors—including communications lapses, a lack of staffing, budget challenges and pandemic-related workplace culture changes—contributed to NASA’s delay in launching the $985 million Psyche mission to a metal-rich asteroid until October 2023.
Kratos has confirmed that the Zeus family of solid rocket motors will support a U.S. Defense Department program to establish a low-cost track for hypersonic flight testing.
Astrobotic says it has validated the Optical Precision Autonomous Landing hardware and flight software for its NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services Peregrine Mission-1 lunar landing, planned for early 2023.
