Congress added $57.7 million to the fiscal 2019 budget last year to launch the EMARSS-E program. The funding included $39.8 million for the EMARSS-E pods and $17.9 million for the airframe.
“We’ve had five conjunctions so far from those pieces of debris where we actually had to track it all the way to when it goes past, and there’s going to be more,” NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told Aerospace DAILY.
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The ships each must be able to embark two 10-metric-ton (22,000 lb.) helicopters, with hangar space for one aircraft. Carrying capacity must be at least 6,350 metric tons.
Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and South Africa’s Paramount Group, have signed a high-level defence collaboration agreement, in step with Saudi Arabia’s vision for the creation of an integrated defence industrial ecosystem.
The deal, signed on July 3 between the heads of state of Argentina and Guatemala, is a small yet significant boost for the Pampa III program, which has faced budgetary headwinds.
The Cumhuriyet newspaper claims the system likely will be located at the site of the former Akinci airbase, west of the Turkish capital of Ankara, and could be airlifted as early as July 7.
Sikorsky faces the challenge of balancing growth capability with affordability as it tailors its X2 configuration to the U.S. Army’s armed scout mission.
A “self-contained and free-flying orbital outpost” could enter an engineering and design phase later this year, followed by fabrication and testing of a prototype, depending on the approval of funding in fiscal 2020.
The finance ministry is strongly opposed to the program because of the cost of developing the proposed large, twin-engine type to build a mere 100 units, the Jiji news agency said.
Armaments agency Armasuisse will perform the evaluations of both the MBDA/Thales Eurosam SAMP/T and the Raytheon Patriot system at a site in Menzingen, an air defense facility that previously housed the Bristol Bloodhound missile until its 1999 retirement.
India’s premier space agency has signed an agreement with Russian firm Glavkosmos to help select and prepare astronauts for the country’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan.
The future of the pan-European EuroMALE (medium altitude, long-endurance) unmanned air system has become hazy after French government officials described the platform as “obese” because of German requirements.
Two Republican senators from Iowa have raised concerns about Boeing’s exports of commercial satellites to companies that allegedly are financed by state-owned Chinese firms or provide bandwidth rented by entities on behalf of the Chinese military.
NASA has selected a dozen science and technology missions for launches to the Moon as payloads aboard the agency’s recently initiated Commercial Lunar Payload Services program.
The U.S. Air Force has implemented the first virtual reality training system for airfield management students so that they get more of a hands-on learning experience.
