Several space launch providers have joined a team led by Dynetics that has been selected by the U.S. Defense Department to accelerate the pace of hypersonic vehicle testing.
New imagery from the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed an unexpected second trail of debris emerging from Dimorphos, the asteroid target for NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission impact on Sept. 26.
Portugal has taken delivery of the first of five Embraer KC-390 tanker-transports ordered in 2019 amid a broader increase in defense spending by Lisbon.
The U.S. Army has started looking for another supplier to increase the output and lower the price of the solid rocket motor that powers the Dark Eagle missile for the Long Range Hypersonic Weapon and the U.S. Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike programs.
Back on Earth from a 170-day mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s Crew-4 quartet of U.S. and European astronauts have some recommendations for developers of the commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the ISS that is now in its final decade of planned operations.
An acquisition of a small force of Northrop Grumman B-21A Raiders could fill a gap in Australia’s long-range strike capabilities until a new fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines begins arriving in around 2040, an Australian defense analyst said on Oct. 19 in Washington.
The Aerospace Corp. is expanding its footprint at Hill AFB in Layton, Utah, for work on nuclear modernization programs including the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel, the intercontinental ballistic missile set to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman III.
British intelligence-gathering flights over the Black Sea region were suspended following the incident on Sept. 29, which occurred in international airspace.
A six-member team—all from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland—will review SpaceX’s unsolicited proposal to send a Dragon capsule to the Hubble Space Telescope to boost its orbit, among possible other services.
New Woodward Chairman and CEO Chip Blankenship is quickly making his mark on the aerospace and defense supplier, announcing a reorganization Oct. 19 that consolidates the company’s business groups and brings fresh leadership inside its aerospace and industrial divisions.
The U.S. Navy’s top officer is joining the call for the Pentagon to buy critical weapons in multiyear blocks as opposed to individual fiscal year allotments, saying the practice would give industry the demand signal and support needed to increase its production rates.