Defense

NASA has awarded Space & Technology Solutions a potential $719 million contract for the support of work on the agency’s Joint Polar Satellite System.

Relativity Space is focusing on a rapid test series for its liquid oxygen/methane (LOx/CH4) Aeon R rocket engine.

NASA has selected Aerospace Corp. to run the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities.

GE AEROSPACE has Lockheed Martin contract to provide maintenance/repair of F-35 avionics/electrical power systems.

Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman says he is starting to define how its personnel will turn satellite data into actionable targeting information.

Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has an unlikely message to Congress: Give up some of your authority.

GE Aerospace becomes the latest F-35 supplier to be converted by Lockheed Martin to a multi-year performance based logistics deal.

Lockheed looked across the massive company's divisions to understand the needs of platforms that would use TacSat-2.

NASA administrator acknowledges the cost and schedule issues across some of its most challenging human deep-space exploration and space-science objectives.

An allegedly leaked U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency report suggests China has almost or already established its first supersonic UAS unit.

Boeing is pairing its Wideband Global Satellite with Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype so troops remain connected in a contested environment, says Tim Fay.

Russian cosmonauts conducted a nearly 8-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station in which they moved an almost 1,100-lb. radiator.

DMEA’s staff has recently been assigned a new task in response to urgent calls by Ukraine to replenish a rapidly depleting arsenal of air defense systems.

Russia plans to send the Venera-D exploration mission to Venus without NASA participation, albeit with less ambitious scientific goals.

Despite a relationship that has been strained following Saudi Arabia’s involvement in the bloody conflict in Yemen, the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) has continued to exercise with the United States Air Force (USAF) and, more recently, with other NATO air forces.

The NRO and Space Force will launch the SilentBarker satellite later this year.

The companies, services and people dependent on today’s promising new generation of aircraft would do well to heed the lessons of the past.

Brazil’s largest defense company studies options for partnering on next-generation fighters and developing light utility transports.

LOCKHEED MARTIN had $1.7b net income on $15.1b sales in 1Q23 vs $1.7b on $15b in 1Q22.

U.S. Space Systems Command is closely watching SpaceX’s launch test of the fully reusable Starship/ Super Heavy launch vehicle, planned for April 20.

The NRO has been experimenting with components of systems that could contribute to a ground-moving target indication mission from orbit.

LightRidge Solutions, a private equity portfolio, is building space-based assets that offer protection designed to protect against on-orbit attacks.

The National Reconnaissance Office wants new technologies and processing for electro-optical imaging.

Lockheed Martin has decided to not pursue any further legal action to overturn the U.S. Army’s selection of the Bell V-280 Valor.

The U.S. Space Force’s upcoming competition for national security space launch service will be open to novel heavy- and superheavy new boosters.