NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory that is to join the James Webb Space Telescope and aging Hubble Space Telescope in studies of exoplanets and the deepest reaches of the universe.
The two-phase Gambit program will start with an 18-month preliminary design phase and end with an 18-month ground test of a full-scale propulsion system in flight conditions.
The Algerian Air Force has received its first two Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Super Hercules tactical transport aircraft, becoming the continent’s second operator in the process.
Raytheon has completed a second and last flight test of the DARPA-funded Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, flying Northrop Grumman’s scramjet-powered demonstrator more than 300 nm at 60,000 ft.
NASA is close to selecting a launch period for Artemis I, the initial test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back to Earth, an agency official says.
The Senate Armed Services Committee has filed its version of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill, which authorizes $847 billion for national security programs at the Pentagon and Energy Department.
