WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin Strategic and Missile Defense Systems will not protest the U.S. Air Force’s decision to move ahead with teams led by Boeing and Northrop Grumman for the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace Minuteman 3 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The Air Force on Aug. 21 awarded […]
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EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) carried out a successful captive carry test Aug. 30 of its Dream Chaser vehicle, a key step towards a glide flight of the lifting body spacecraft later this year. The Dream Chaser engineering test article, slung underneath a civilian variant […]
Scouring the skies for alien technology has turned up strange radio burstsThomas R. Fletcher / Alamy Stock Photo By Leah Crane One of the most mysterious objects in space just got even weirder. A group of researchers just found 15 new fast radio bursts, all from the only one of […]
LANCASTER, Calif. — NASA’s Johnson Space Center will remain closed to all but essential personnel until Sept. 5 as the center, and the greater Houston area, recovers from Tropical Storm Harvey. JSC had been closed since the storm’s arrival over the weekend because of flooding that made travel in the […]
SAN FRANCISCO – Four of the 72 miniature satellites sent into orbit July 14 on a Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket alongside the primary customer, the Kanopus-V-IK Russian Earth-imaging satellite, are not responding to commands from their operators and two additional cubesats are not in their intended orbits. Dauria Aerospace, Russia’s […]
WASHINGTON — An aeronautical communications service meant to improve aircraft safety while on the ground at airports could cause unacceptable interference to Globalstar’s satellite system, according to Boeing. In an Aug. 18 filing to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, Boeing cautioned that the service rules for the Aeronautical Mobile Airport […]
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has finalized a list of exclusion zones for two types of advanced remote sensing technologies that could help end a long-running logjam for licensing of commercial systems using those techniques. In a presentation at an Aug. 24 meeting of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing […]
WASHINGTON — An antenna-pointing error that’s proving difficult to fix has prompted PT Telkom Indonesia to migrate customers off of its oldest operational satellite. The state-owned satellite operator said Aug. 26 that Telkom-1, an 18-year-old satellite three years past its design life, lost antenna lock the day before, disrupting service […]