The U.S. Air Force is clamping down on quality controls among its EELV suppliers after the Pentagon’s inspector general identified 181 nonconformities....More
New Shepard's Dec. 12 test flight afforded the three minutes of microgravity needed for a dozen commercial, medical and educational experiments....More
Belgium’s government has given the green light to joining the Dutch-led Multinational Multi-Role Tanker Transport Fleet (MMF), a move that will increase the fleet of pooled tanker jets to eight....More
Underlining the trend toward 3-D printed larger metal parts for aerospace applications, Sciaky says it sold four of its multimillion-dollar EBAM electron beam additive manufacturing machines in December....More
Minority- and women-owned businesses saw a drop in DOD contracting during much of the Obama administration, but the dip was far smaller than for all of the DOD's contractors....More
Motion and control tech provider Parker Hannifin and the Justice Department have reached an antitrust deal over the company’s $4.3 billion purchase of Clarcor....More
An experiment pairing the skills of an ISS astronaut with two technologies succeeded in demonstrating a full microbial ID process in a microgravity environment....More
Russia’s Energia Corporation seems to have restored the connection with Angola’s first communication satellite, launched from Baikonur on Dec. 26....More
NASA must do better at focusing on the health risks astronauts will face if they are to live, work and explore beyond low Earth orbit for extended periods, an assessment says....More
