The Department of Energy says the recently disclosed cyberattack against the agency did not compromise the National Nuclear Security Administration’s classified systems, but the breach is still causing a stir on Capitol Hill.
Cost sharing for the third phase of National Security Space Launch contracts will likely require more investment from the government than industry, according to United Launch Alliance Chief Executive Officer Tory Bruno.
Israel’s Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have completed a series of missile defense tests that indicate Israel’s multilayered air defenses can intercept incoming threats simultaneously.
An independent report commissioned by Lockheed Martin suggests that the F-35 program could generate as much as £40 billion ($53.9 billion) for the UK economy up to 2038.
The council of the European Space Agency has appointed Josef Aschbacher—currently ESA’s director of Earth observation programs—as the next director general, replacing Jan Woerner in 2021.
The Joint Interagency Task Force-South is advocating that the military services bring aircraft for training to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility instead of a range stateside.
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have finalized an agreement for Canada’s participation in the development of a lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.
Germany’s ambitions for a smallsat launch capability from the North Sea has prompted the formation of a consortium to develop a ship-launch capability.
The Amazon executive overseeing the Kuiper satellite constellation and connectivity service has said that the internet business behemoth will look to multiple rocket launch providers for access to space, even though launch provider Blue Origin is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The return capsule of China’s Chang’e 5 lunar mission landed early on Dec. 17, Chinese time, bringing back the first samples from the Moon in 44 years.
The Commercial Space Operations Center, now known as Comspoc, has formally split off as a standalone company from Analytical Graphics now that the latter has been acquired by Ansys.
President Trump issued his administration’s sixth Space Policy Directive on Dec. 16, promoting the development of space nuclear power and propulsion technologies to support a permanent human presence on the Moon by the end of the 2020s and the human exploration of Mars in the decade that follows.
With U.S. hypersonic weapon testing poised to ramp up, NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems a $70 million contract to support the SkyRange program to field a long-range, flight-test data collection capability based on high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft.
Ten years after the X-51 first flew under scramjet power, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has completed ground tests of air-breathing hypersonic engines that could accelerate a vehicle 10 times the X-51’s size to speeds in excess of Mach 5.
The Kazakhstan Ministry of Emergency Relief on Dec. 12 received a new Mil Mi-8AMT heavy transport helicopter—the first airframe in the Mi-8/17 family assembled outside Russia.
Plans to move the U.S. Air Force’s UK RC-135 Rivet Joint operating location from RAF Mildenhall to RAF Fairford have been canceled after the U.S. Defense Department decided to keep RAF Mildenhall open.
Persistent lapses in NASA’s oversight of key Artemis elements continue to jeopardize upcoming test flight launch schedules and plans for hardware upgrades after the agency returns to the Moon’s surface with human explorers, a U.S. Government Accountability Office audit says.
