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U.K.-based spacecraft technology developer Effective Space has received a contract to perform in-orbit satellite servicing support for an unnamed regional operator, Via Satellite reported Wednesday. Effective Space will launch two Space Drone servicing spacecraft in 2020 to conduct station-keeping and attitude control support for two communications satellites. Daniel Campbell, managing director at Effective Space, told Via Satellite that […] More

Orbital ATK demonstrated its anti-unmanned aerial system defense system at the Maneuver Fires Integrated Experiment held at Fort Sill in Oklahoma in an effort to gather feedback and address short-range air defense capability gaps. The company said Wednesday the AUDS platform worked to help soldiers detect, track and target hostile UAS during the demonstration. AUDS […] More

CSRA will work with Supermicro Computer and Edge Solutions & Consulting to expand the computing capacity at NASA’s Center for Climate Simulation under a contract with the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center. CSRA said Wednesday it will update NASA’s Discover supercomputer to increase the system’s high-performance computing capacity to approximately 5 petaFLOPS as part of the […] More

Boeing has received a $12.6 million order from the U.S. Navy to deliver 39 T-45 Goshawk retrofit kits, support equipment and special tools for the trainer aircraft’s service life extension program. The Defense Department said Wednesday the order also includes retrofit engineering and logistics services meant to address associated government technical directives. Eighty-six percent of work will occur in Missouri […] More

Qatar’s defense minister Khalid Bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah has said the country’s government looks to purchase nine BAE Systems-built Hawk trainer aircraft units, Dow Jones Newswires reported Wednesday. The report noted Qatar had planned to buy only six Hawk jet trainers. BAE closed on a potential $6.7 billion contract last month to supply 24 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets to Qatar’s air force beginning […] More

The North American subsidiary of Terma has received a potential six-year, $44.3 million contract to build a three-dimensional audio system for integration into the U.S. Air Force‘s F-16 C and D aircraft models. Terma North America will engineer, integrate and produce the 3D audio technology as well as provide spares, support equipment and interim contractor support, the Defense Department […] More