A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 8:09 p.m. EST on a mission for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), dubbed NROL-44.
An updated U.S. space policy emphasizes six broad principles, with roots in the 1967 Outer Space Treaty and the Artemis Accords, with which NASA is forging an international partnership to lead humans back to the Moon and on to Mars.
Joby Aviation has become the first manufacturer to receive airworthiness approval for its electric air taxi under the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime initiative.
The decision clears BAE Systems to begin production of the electronic warfare upgrade as developmental and operational testing by the 53rd Wing continues.
The contract award scheduled later this month to ether L3Harris or Northrop Grumman will be managed under the more traditional process of an Acquisition Category (ACAT)-1B program of record.
The European Space Agency has awarded two contracts for the delivery of the Space Rider flight model, a small reusable spacecraft aimed at robotic missions in low Earth orbit, and the associated ground segment.
The external release of a subsonic, Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile from the right forward fuselage station of the B-1B helps to prove the feasibility of launching hypersonic weapons.
The motion of each X-61A in relation to the capture mechanism during each attempt proved larger than the designers expected, DARPA said. The X-61As instead deployed parachutes to recover safely on the ground.
The U.S. director of national intelligence announced that the nation is creating an Intelligence Community Commercial Space Council, during a Dec. 9 meeting of the National Space Council.
