The U.S. Air Force has started the operational utility evaluation phase of testing on the Lockheed Martin-made F-35 fighter jet. From Monday, the branch said two 33rd Fighter Wing pilots at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. and two Air Force test pilots will conduct the 65-day review of the F-35′s conventional takeoff and landing version. [...]
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Concurrent Technologies Corp. is developing a laser for the Air Force Research Laboratory, with the goal of developing a system for removing paint from fighter and cargo aircraft. CTC said it received a task order under the National Defense Center for Energy and Environment Program to continue its work with the AFRL on the system. [...]
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Last week was a busy one for NASA and two contractors as they took next steps in testing several vehicles for commercial space travel, Wired reports. According to Jason Paur, Boeing tested the forward heat shield on its CST-100, with the shield designed to protect parachutes during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere. The Chicago-based aerospace firm [...]
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Contractor-Supported Telescope Finds Hidden Galaxies, Black Holes; Hashima Hasan Comments
August 30, 2012 No CommentA NASA telescope has discovered new candidates for black holes and close to 1,000 dust-obscured objects the agency believes could be galaxies, the agency announced Wednesday. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. built the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer spacecraft, both DRS Technologies and Rockwell made the focal planes and Lockheed Martin made a cooling system for the [...]
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The U.S. Army is asking industry and government sources to provide the branch proposals for decreasing operational energy use of both mounted and dismounted soldiers, the Army announced Friday. Vendors who propose solutions can have them tested at the branch’s next Network Integration Evaluation exercise, scheduled for May 2013 at Fort Bliss, Texas and White [...]
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Lockheed Martin will build and operate a spacecraft to help NASA in its future Mars expedition, the company announced Monday. The company’s space systems unit in Denver will develop the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport spacecraft. Once on the planet, the InSight spacecraft will install a seismograph and heat flow probe [...]
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The U.S. Air Force plans to fly 16 Lockheed Martin F-35 jets every week this month, an uptick from 11 flights during the last week of May, Flight Global reports. Lt. Col. Lee Kloos, commander of the 33rd Fighter Wing’s 58th Fighter Squadron, told the website the branch wants to fly 20 planes per week starting [...]
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Amazon Web Services recently provided NASA live streaming images and video from Mars as the Curiosity rover landed on the planet, Wired reports. Amazon is one of several large companies that have played a technological role in the Curiosity project, ranging from helping capture images to developing the rover’s instruments. ATK worked with NASA’s [...]
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Lockheed Martin‘s F-35 fighter jet released an airborne weapon for the first time during a test flight earlier this week in the U.S. Navy’s Atlantic test range. The Navy said the BF-3, a short take-off and vertical landing F-35 variant, released a 1,000-pound weapon while traveling at a speed of nearly 460 miles per hour [...]
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QinetiQ North America will deliver additional Dragon Runner 10 robots to the U.S. Marine Corps for near term operational support, the company announced Tuesday. Prior to the urgent order for additional lightweight robots, two previous DR-10 orders were made to support the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. J.D. Crouch, technology solutions group president, said the [...]
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