Airbus successfully qualifies Europe´s first five metre deployable reflector for radar satellites

Airbus successfully qualifies Europe´s first five metre deployable reflector for radar satellites

Enabling cost effective, small radar missions or constellations

Airbus has successfully qualified Europe´s first five metre deployable antenna reflector. The 70 kilogram deployable reflector will help enable higher resolution from a radar instrument for Earth observation. With its exceptionally…

GA-ASI COMPLETES FULL-SCALE STATIC TESTING  ON MQ-9B SKYGUARDIAN® WING STRUCTURE

GA-ASI COMPLETES FULL-SCALE STATIC TESTING ON MQ-9B SKYGUARDIAN® WING STRUCTURE

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) recently completed Full Scale Static (FSS) testing on the MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) wing after three months of extensive testing. MQ-9B includes SkyGuardian® and SeaGuardian ® RPA produced by GA-ASI.

The testing included multiple load cases…

Notional GPS III satellite on orbit

MCEU Receives Operational Acceptance

The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Production Corps, achieved a major Global Positioning System milestone on Nov. 18 with the approval for Operational Acceptance of GPS Military-Code (M-Code) Early Use (MCEU). 

The encrypted M-Code signal enhances anti-jamming and anti-spoofing capabilities for the…

GA-ASI DEMONSTRATES GOVERNMENT-SUPPLIED CODE AUTONOMY ENGINE

GA-ASI DEMONSTRATES GOVERNMENT-SUPPLIED CODE AUTONOMY ENGINE

Autonomous Flight Uses Jet-Powered Avenger as Skyborg Surrogate

SBIRS GEO-5

Most Advanced SBIRS Missile Warning Satellite Ready For 2021 Launch

SBIRS GEO-5 is First Military Satellite Using New LM 2100 Bus to Drive Resiliency, Efficiency and Record Production Speed

 

A successful final firing of Sea Venom/ANL at the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) test site at Ile du Levant on 17 November.

MBDA completes qualification firing trials of the Sea Venom/ANL missile

The Sea Venom/ANL anti-ship missile has completed its qualification firings trials, with a successful final firing at the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) test site at Ile du Levant on 17 November.

Soon to start equipping the Royal Navy’s AW159 Wildcat and Marine nationale’s H160M Guépard…

Cobham to Supply Anti-Jam GPS Solution for US Army Gray Eagle UAS

Cobham to Supply Anti-Jam GPS Solution for US Army Gray Eagle UAS

Cobham Aerospace Connectivity has been selected by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) and the U.S. Army to provide the anti-jam GPS systems for the MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) platform.

As part of a Multi-Domain Operation(MDO) equipment…

BAE Systems announces modern aerospace and defense facility development project in Cedar Rapids

BAE Systems announces modern aerospace and defense facility development project in Cedar Rapids

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — BAE Systems is investing more than $100 million to build a state-of-the-art facility in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The facility will support the company’s newly acquired Navigation & Sensor Systems business, which makes mission-critical military GPS products. The new building will bring the…

Fourth Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite’s On Board Engine Now Propelling It To Orbit

Fourth Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite’s On Board Engine Now Propelling It To Orbit

Fourth Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite’s On Board Engine Now Propelling It To Orbit

The fourth Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-built Global Positioning System III (GPS III) satellite is now headed to…

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