Aviation News
Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon were all give contracts by the Pentagon recently to design a common Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle for the GBI and SM3 missiles.
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The U.S. Navy has successfully conducted final contract trials of USNS Howard O. Lorenzen in San Diego. The missile range instrumentation ship will be the replacement for USNS Observation Island.
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The U.S. Air Force’s X-37B OTV-3 mission is approaching its one year in orbit milestone and the spacecraft is not showing signs of landing anytime soon.
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38 North has found evidence that North Korea has started constructing new facilities at the Tonghae Satellite Launching Ground.
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DARPA has issued a solicitation for the initial phase of the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program.
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