Arianespace announced today that global satellite services provider, SES, has committed to three new primary launch services using Ariane, under the Multi Launch Agreement (MLA) signed in June 2007.>> The commitment covers three new satellites for the SES group, including Astra 3B for SES ASTRA, plus two other satellites which have yet to be identified
France, Sweden and the United Kingdom on Sept. 22 signed a technical arrangement covering studies for the development of a lightweight and compact radar intended for unmanned aerial vehicles
Rheinmetall Defence's Land Systems division, one of the world's leaders in the development and production of armoured recovery vehicles, was awarded a contract in July 2004 to supply the Greek Army with 12 armoured recovery vehicles (ARVs). The vehicles are based on a Leopard 2 tank chassis equipped with a crane, winches, dozer blade and recovery systems
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WASHINGTON --- Air Force and Navy officials here signed a memo Sept. 16 identifying a new process for allocating F-35 Lightning II depot repair workloads
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Anatoly Perminov, General Director of the Russian space agency Roskosmos, signed a contract on Saturday, September 20, for the acquisition of ten Soyuz launch vehicles.>> The contract was signed in Sochi during a French-Russian governmental seminar, attended by both the French and Russian prime ministers
PARSIPPANY, NJ --- DRS Technologies, Inc. announced today that it received a $42 million order to build more than 670 additional M989A1 Heavy Expanded Mobility Ammunition Trailers (HEMATs)
South Africa’s Denel Dynamics has unveiled its latest UAV at Africa Aerospace and Defence 2008. The latest iteration of the Seeker family, the Seeker 400, updates the company’s UAV capabilities and is some 30 percent larger than the existing Seeker II
The Kinetic Energy Interceptors team led by Northrop Grumman Corporation successfully completed structural integrity and hydro-proof tests of composite cases planned for use on the high-pressure Stage 1 and 2 solid rocket motors. The testing took place during a three-month period ending in July
The advanced Aerial Refueling Boom System (ARBS) for Northrop Grumman Corporation's KC-45 Tanker has performed multiple aerial contacts with an operational Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft, confirming its ability to support large aircraft in U.S