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SPACEX AWARDED TWO EELV-CLASS MISSIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
The United States Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center has awarded SpaceX two Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV)-class missions: DSCOVR (Deep Space Climate Observatory) and STP-2 (Space Test Program 2). To be launched on SpaceX’s Falcon launch vehicles in… Continue reading
Northrop Grumman-Built NASA Global Hawks Support Hurricane Missions From Both U.S. Coasts
New Base of Operations Allows NASA Global Hawks to Reach Atlantic Storms More Quickly and Collect Data for Longer Periods of Time
Now deployed to the U.S. East coast, Northrop Grumman Corporation -built unmanned NASA Global Hawks will be able… Continue reading
Specialist Aviation Services Orders AW169 Helicopters for Parapublic Missions
AgustaWestland announced that Specialist Aviation Services has signed a contract today for six AW169 helicopters including firm orders and options. The contract was signed by Henk Schaeken, Group Managing Director of Specialist Aviation Services at the Farnborough International Airshow. The… Continue reading
Bell Helicopter Delivers a Bell 412 to NYPD for Counter-Terrorism Missions
Fort Worth, TX – July 3, 2012 – Bell Helicopter, a Textron Inc. company (NYSE: TXT), announced today the delivery of a Bell 412 helicopter to the New York Police Department. The NYPD currently has three Bell 412s in service… Continue reading
SpaceX and Bigelow Aerospace Join Forces to Offer Crewed Missions to Private Space Stations
Hawthorne, CA, and Las Vegas, NV– Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Bigelow Aerospace (BA) have agreed to conduct a joint marketing effort focused on international customers. The two companies will offer rides on SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, using the Falcon launch… Continue reading
Lockheed Martin Incorporates Additional Industry C4ISR Systems into Airborne Intelligence Laboratory
AML Aircraft Tests Capabilities for Intelligence, Homeland Security, Humanitarian Missions
MELBOURNE, Australia, March 1st, 2011 — Rockwell Collins and DRS Defense Solutions have been added to the growing list of companies with C4ISR products integrated into Lockheed Martin’s [NYSE: LMT]… Continue reading
Elbit Systems Successfully Performs Joint Flight Missions of its Hermes 450 and Hermes 900 UAS
The two UAS simultaneously performed two different missions, transmitting the gathered imagery, ELINT and COMINT to the same ground control station, using different communications systems
Haifa, Israel, February 9, 2011 – Elbit Systems announced today that it successfully performed a… Continue reading
Iraq orders seven Eurocopter AS350 B3 helicopters for agricultural missions
Marignane, France, November 2, 2010
Eurocopter today signed an agreement for the supply of seven AS350 B3 Ecureuil helicopters to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture for crop spraying missions over vast fields of date palm trees – which provide a… Continue reading
EADS North America receives the first phase of a $152 million U.S. Army contract to equip UH-72A Lakotas for Security and Support Battalion missions
The U.S. Army has awarded EADS North America a $67 million contract for the supply of Mission Equipment Packages (MEP) on UH-72A Lakota Light Utility Helicopters to be operated by Army National Guard Security and Support Battalions (S&S Battalions). This… Continue reading
Northrop Grumman-Built NASA Global Hawk Soars Through Hurricane Surveillance Missions
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., Sept. 22, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NASA’s unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), flew from NASA Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. towards the East Coast on… Continue reading
NASA’s Unmanned Global Hawk Aircraft Conducts Ground Breaking Science Missions
SAN DIEGO, June 9, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NASA’s unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, developed by Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC), completed four science flights over the Pacific Ocean during the month of April. The flights were part of the… Continue reading
US Air Force and Canadian Armed Forces fly missions to support Vancouver Olympics
More than 2,600 athletes from nearly 90 nations will kick-off the 2010 Winter Olympics during opening ceremonies Feb. 12, and Air Mobility Command Airmen will play a supporting role by flying air refueling missions and posturing medics to support the 17-day competition.… Continue reading