The U.S. will not conduct any anti-satellite direct-ascent missile tests, Vice President Kamala Harris said April 18, calling on other nations to also refrain from the activity to avoid the expansion of space debris in orbit.
Boryung Pharmaceutical, Starburst and Axiom Space have launched a “Care in Space Challenge,” an annual competition with a $1 million shared prize to find next-generation pharmaceutical, bioscience and medical technologies to be developed in space.
Bell’s UH-1 Huey, the iconic helicopter of the Vietnam War era, operates in almost all Latin American countries across their air forces, armies and navies.
Spacewalking cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev equipped the European Space Agency’s 37-ft.-long robot arm with a control panel during an April 18 spacewalk outside the International Space Station.
A potential order for five electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft by the U.S. Air Force in fiscal 2023 may not register on lists of the largest customers for the flying taxi industry, but could still have a major impact on the experimental technology.
NASA, SpaceX and Axiom Space have delayed the undocking of Axiom-1, the first U.S. private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, from April 19 to April 20 at the earliest.
The U.S. Air Force’s planned uncrewed wingmen for the B-21 bomber and the next-generation fighter need to be able to adapt with modular payloads based on changing threats, the top U.S. Air Force officer says.
Space manufacturing and services provider Redwire, which recently became a publicly traded company, could raise up to $80 million in new funds via additional stock issuance.
NASA plans to suspend additional tanking tests of the Space Launch System and return the Moon rocket to Kennedy Space Center’s Vehicle Assembly Building for repairs, the space agency said.
Technicians on April 15 were preparing to access the tail service mast unit of the Space Launch System mobile launcher in an effort to stem a liquid hydrogen leak that prompted the launch team to scrub a tanking test of the Moon-class rocket on April 14.
As their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station draws to a close, four NASA SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts praised their experience with Axiom-1, the first U.S. all-private astronaut mission to the ISS, and predicted there will be more missions to come.
A four-decade-old Boeing 747-200 simulator that was headed for disposal has been refurbished to train the U.S. Air Force’s Doomsday plane pilots as part of an effort to increase the overall readiness of the four-plane E-4B Nightwatch fleet.
The second phase of DARPA’s Glide Breaker program will seek to conquer the problem of operating a divert and attitude control system on a kill vehicle traveling at hypersonic speed within the atmosphere, the agency says in a newly released solicitation.
Rafael has successfully completed a series of ground-breaking tests with a high-power laser interception system, ‘Iron Beam’, against steep-track threats.
