Northrop expansion in Melbourne may create 1900 jobs - WTSP.com [feedly]

Northrop expansion in Melbourne may create 1900 jobs
WTSP.com
MELBOURNE — Northrop Grumman has received the green light from City Hall to expand its campus at Orlando Melbourne International Airport, creating space for 1,900 new employees to help design and manufacture the Air Force's Long Range Strike ...
Investment Analysts' Weekly Ratings Changes for Northrop Grumman (NOC)Web Breaking News

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NASA Repurposes Passive Thermal-Control Technology for CubeSats [feedly]

NASA Repurposes Passive Thermal-Control Technology for CubeSats
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Repurposes_Passive_Thermal_Control_Technology_for_CubeSats_999.html

An older technology once de rigueur for preventing spacecraft gadgetry from getting too hot or too cold has been resurrected and repurposed for an emerging class of small satellites now playing an increasingly larger role in space exploration, technology demonstration, and scientific research. NASA Principal Investigator Allison Evans and her team at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Gree

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Generation Orbit signs Space Act Agreement for GOLauncher 1 Testing [feedly]

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Generation_Orbit_Signs_Space_Act_Agreement_with_Armstrong_for_GOLauncher_1_Testing_999.html

http://www.generationorbit.com/golauncher1.html


Generation Orbit Launch Services, Inc. (GO) is pleased to announce the signing of a Space Act Agreement with NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) to collaboratively pursue the flight test and envelope clearance for the GOLauncher 1 air launched rocket vehicle. Utilizing AFRC's experience and capabilities in flight test engineering for air launch rocket systems, the two year program

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Boeing Moves Up 737 Max Jet Delivery to First Half of 2017 - Wall Street Journal [feedly]

Wall Street Journal

Boeing Moves Up 737 Max Jet Delivery to First Half of 2017
Wall Street Journal
Ray Conner, chief executive of Boeing's Commercial Airplane unit, told analysts at its annual investor conference that Boeing would deliver the first 737 Max to Southwest Airlines Co. in the first half of 2017, having previously targeted the third ...
Boeing outlines strategy to raise profits, omits some detailsReuters
Boeing execs see rosy times ahead despite challengesThe Seattle Times
Boeing aims to hike revenue and profits, smooth out cyclical patternYahoo News
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Boeing's first crewed Starliner launch slips to 2018 - Ars Technica [feedly]

Ars Technica

Boeing's first crewed Starliner launch slips to 2018
Ars Technica
NASA has pinpointed next year as the time when its dependence upon Russia to fly its astronauts to the International Space Station will finally end. However, one of the two companies now slated to provide that service, Boeing, has said it will not be ...
Boeing's Starliner schedule for sending astronauts into orbit slips to ...GeekWire

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DARPA eyes 2018 for TERN UAV's first flight - IHS Jane's 360 [feedly]

IHS Jane's 360

DARPA eyes 2018 for TERN UAV's first flight
IHS Jane's 360
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has moved to a third and final stage of an effort to launch medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) from US Navy surface combatants, and expects an initial ...

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UAV achieves full-speed autonomous landing - GPS World magazine [feedly]

GPS World magazine

UAV achieves full-speed autonomous landing GPS World magazine In flight tests on an airfield in Swabia Mindelheim-Mattsies, the DLR system was successfully tested with a 3-meter, 20-kilogram, electric fixed-wing UAV. A net was provided on the roof of a car, along with optical markers. The UAV can position itself ...

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Boeing resumes Advanced Super Hornet push as US Navy considers fleet size [feedly]

Boeing resumes Advanced Super Hornet push as US Navy considers fleet size
http://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/boeing-resumes-advanced-super-hornet-push-as-us-navy-425221/

Boeing Defense has matured its thinking about the Advanced Super Hornet concept that it launched in 2013 and flight tested, revealing a scaled-back configuration this week with fewer stealth features and perhaps a greater chance of being picked up by the US Navy.

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No Stealthy McBombface Moniker for B-21 | Turkey’s Erdogan Announces Lofty Naval Ambitions | Spain Selects Thales Scorpion HMCS for Hornets [feedly]

No Stealthy McBombface Moniker for B-21 | Turkey's Erdogan Announces Lofty Naval Ambitions | Spain Selects Thales Scorpion HMCS for Hornets
http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/no-stealthy-mcbombface-moniker-for-b-21-turkeys-erdogan-announces-lofty-naval-ambitions-spain-selects-thales-scorpion-hmcs-for-hornets-033730/

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