ULA to Launch Rocket for Student Engagement Program; Tory Bruno Quoted
Interns from United Launch Alliance and Ball Aerospace are joining K-12 students to launch payloads in celebration of the Apollo 11 moon landing’s 50th anniversary.
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Lockheed’s Skunk Works Arm Moves Ahead With Compact Fusion Reactor Project
Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works advanced development arm is slated to unveil a compact fusion reactor that may be used to power large aircraft or a town of 80K homes, The Drive reported Friday.
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Textron Sees Global Sales Opportunity in Potential USAF Certification
Textron Aviation Defense expects an upcoming U.S. Air Force certification that may support the global sales of the firm's AT-6 Wolverine light-attack, single-engine aircraft, FlightGlobal reported Saturday.
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Numerica Gets Air Force Satellite Tracking Support Contract
Numerica has been awarded a contract to provide satellite tracking services and space situational awareness data to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Friday it will provide the Air Force Research Laboratory with a data feed of information from a global telescope network to support the service branch's operations and research-and-development efforts in the space domain.
Northrop Presents Firebird ISR Aircraft at U.S. Aerospace Event
Northrop Grumman exhibited a line of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft at a three-day aerospace industry event in the U.K.
Slalom Hosts Two-Day Hackathon on AWS Tech for Law Enforcement
Slalom held a two-day hackathon to help the residents of San Diego develop technical approaches that will potentially address law enforcement gaps through the use of Amazon Web Services offerings.
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Lockheed Integrates Orion Crew Module for NASA’s Artemis 1 Mission
Lockheed Martin finished constructing the Orion spacecraft’s crew capsule ahead of NASA’s planned Artemis 1 uncrewed mission to the moon, Vice President Mike Pence announced during his visit to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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SpaceX Completes Static Fire Test for Falcon 9 Engines
SpaceX conducted a static fire test for the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin engines and is on track for the rocket’s rescheduled launch on Wednesday as part of the company’s cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station, Spaceflight Now said Friday.
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Anthony Lawson Joins Cadence Aerospace in VP Role
Anthony Lawson, formerly president of operations at Hitco Carbon Composites, has joined Cadence Aerospace as vice president of operations, quality and environment, health and safety.
Draper Advances Tech Development Efforts in Support of NASA’s Lunar Missions
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory is developing technologies designed to support NASA’s robotic and manned missions to the moon by 2024, SpaceNews reported Thursday.
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Allied Systems to Deliver Aircraft Salvage Cranes Under $70M Navy IDIQ
Allied Systems has secured a potential five-year, $70.6M firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to build and deliver two aircraft salvage cranes to the U.S. Navy.
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LinQuest Offers Model-Based Systems Engineering Support to Air Force Under Military Satcom Contract
LinQuest provides engineering and integration support services for the U.S. Air Force’s satellite communications architecture under a potential seven-year, $562M contract awarded in June, C4ISRNET reported Friday.