Four mystery satellites accompanied the Globalstar FM-15 communications satellite into orbit, data posted on the 18th Space Defense Sqdn.’s Space-Track.org website show.
The Space Development Agency has issued a solicitation for the design, development and deployment of its Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System satellite constellation.
After having said recently the first flight of an Ariane 6 medium- to heavy-lift launcher will not take place until 2023, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher has announced details will not be discussed publicly until July 13.
The U.S. Navy and U.S. Central Command have ended the RQ-4 Global Hawk Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator mission after 13 years in the Middle East.
The U.S. Air Force is undertaking a new approach to electromagnetic spectrum operations, mainly with the nascent development of an uncrewed teaming aircraft to couple with the Next Generation Air Dominance that can carry jamming capabilities.
NASA’s Mars Insight science team plans to extend marsquake-data gathering by the probe’s seismometer while available power dwindles daily due to dust accumulating on the lander’s solar arrays.
Boeing hopes to secure a contract early next year for Germany’s future fleet of Chinook transport helicopters as it works to finalize requirements for the rotorcraft.
Germany is pursuing an accelerated timeline for its Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter acquisition as the country looks to bring the aircraft into operation before the end of the decade.
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee is blasting the U.S. Air Force for not only changing how many Boeing F-15EXs it wants to buy, but how it is buying them.
NASA managers on June 21 were reviewing results of a modified fueling test of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which culminated when the onboard flight system software aborted the countdown.
A proposed amendment to the House Armed Services Committee’s markup of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill would add $37 billion to the panel’s topline and plus-up Pentagon acquisitions, including another addition to the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 program.
The U.S. Energy Department has awarded three conceptual-design contracts for Moon-based nuclear-fission powerplants for NASA’s Artemis missions starting in the 2030s.
Italian flagship aerospace and defense company Leonardo is buying Rada Electronic Industries, a publicly traded Israeli defense electronics and military radar specialist, to fold under Leonardo’s U.S.-based DRS brand, the companies announced June 21.
Germany’s government has approved simplified procurement legislation enabling the country’s military to spend its recently approved €100 billion ($105 billion) special fund for 2022 more easily.
Denmark is to retain its F-16s at a higher operational level and for a longer period than planned due to regional tensions prompted by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Technical issues that curtailed three Space Launch System tanking tests at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in April appear to have been resolved, but a new issue stymied a fourth practice countdown underway on June 20.
A test of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply capsule’s ability to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) while docked to it was aborted quickly June 20.
