House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) is concerned the two U.S. Senate election runoffs in Georgia and “political calculations” over renaming military bases honoring Confederate leaders will hinder signing the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill into law.
Much delayed and technically challenged, the NASA-led development and prelaunch testing of the James Webb Space Telescope is now on schedule for an Oct. 31, 2021, launch, officials say.
The Legion-Embedded System pod has been ordered by an undisclosed F-16 Block 70/72 customer and is available for delivery by new operators starting in 2023.
NASA’s third cargo resupply line to the International Space Station, operated by privately owned Sierra Nevada Corp., is delaying the debut launch of its reusable winged Dream Chaser spaceplane until 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic-related work issues, the company said on Nov. 17.
Additive manufacturing machine maker 3D Systems said it is on the verge of finishing one of the world’s largest, fastest most precise powder metal 3D printers for U.S. Army Research Laboratory use toward long-range munitions, helicopters, air and missile defenses.
An image released by Aurora Flight Sciences announcing its selection under a DARPA X-plane program gives a hint at how designing an aircraft from the outset around active flow control could dramatically change the configurations that are possible.
Launch service operator Arianespace has traced the cause of the Nov. 16 failure of a Vega rocket to an improperly connected electrical harness on the launcher’s Avum engine.
Greece has submitted requests to purchase up to 24 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, calling for a delivery of some of the aircraft from as early as 2021.
Historically, the ultimate cat-and-mouse game of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is associated with acoustic technology, with the classic sonar “pings” emitted from an enemy’s vessels or sonobuoys even becoming plot devices of Hollywood films. As the tell-tale plankton of Gibraltar shows, however, the ASW community has always had other ways to detect submarines.
The Vega light launcher, operated by Arianespace, is to place two satellites into orbit on Nov. 16–Taranis, to study electromagnetic phenomena taking place above storms, and Seosat-Ingenio, focused on the observation of Spain’s territory.
Speculation is mounting over what’s next for U.S. human deep-space exploration following the Nov. 3 presidential election, but one noted space historian believes the U.S. will still land on the Moon within 10 years.
