A fire broke out during final preparations for launch of a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries H-IIB rocket carrying a cargo ship to the International Space Station for JAXA.
President Donald Trump has dismissed his third national security adviser, John Bolton, a defense hawk who advocated for more DOD spending and to keep troops in Afghanistan.
The Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee has advanced the Pentagon’s fiscal 2020 budget request and would provide the Defense Department with $694.9 billion in accordance with the 2019 Bipartisan Budget Act.
A Polish company is developing a heliport monitoring system that can warn a pilot of potential obstacles near a landing area before the helicopter arrives.
The Sikorsky HH-60W program will meet with U.S. Air Force leadership Sept. 24 to determine if the new search-and-rescue helicopter is green lighted for low-rate initial production, a company executive says.
Efforts by the Indian Space Research Organization to re-establish comms with the Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lunar lander continued Sept. 9, a day after imagery revealed Vikram had landed in one piece but hard.
Efforts by the Indian Space Research Organization to re-establish comms with the Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lunar lander continued Sept. 9, a day after imagery revealed Vikram had landed in one piece but hard.
Britain’s approach to developing a future combat aircraft is studying new business models that could see industry compete to write new software for the platform while the aircraft itself could be built for a shorter service life than its contemporaries.
The market for geostationary satellites, which until recently was going through a trough, is picking up, according to the CEOs of launch service operator Arianespace and satellite manufacturer Maxar Technologies.
USAF officials have demoed a weapons bay modification that would expand the internal weapons capacity of the B-1B by 75% and allow the bomber to carry a hypersonic missile.
Worchester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) is developing a an algorithm to eliminate imperfections in carbon fiber composites for materials used in the production of propellant tanks and other spacecraft components.
Japan has flight tested an integrated suite of sensors for its next fighter, creating a single system from a gallium-nitride radar, a passive radio-frequency sensor and an infrared camera.
The environmental impact statement released as part of the Air National Guard “beddown” process that establishes several new F-35A bases also identifies the unique radar chaff system tailored for the F-35.
Communications between the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) and the Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lander were lost moments before a scheduled landing at the Moon’s south pole Sept. 6 U.S. time, during the braking phase with the spacecraft and its Pragyan rover about 2.1 km above the lunar surface. The autonomous descent, which got under way at 4:08 p.m. EDT, was considered to be going as planned until that point. The loss of signal was reported by the ISRO control center at Istrac, Bengaluru at 4:24 p.m. EDT.
The U.S. Army vehemently maintains that Future Vertical Lift will remain relevant as some say the concept of operations for the effort is obsolete against potential adversaries like Russia.
NASA’s long-standing Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP) is encouraged by the agency’s early efforts to speed up a crewed lunar mission to 2024, but cautions that the NASA workforce may be stretched too thin.
