Slingshot Aerospace has received a potential 39-month, $25.2 million contract from the U.S. Space Force to provide a digital twin technology and a training platform. Space Systems Command and the service’s venture arm SpaceWERX will provide funding through the Strategic Financing program to help Slingshot Aerospace further develop its Digital Space Twin to support Space […] More

John Albers, president and CEO of Albers Aerospace, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the company’s rebrand from the Albers Group as well as his growth initiatives and capabilities in manufacturing and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) training. In addition, Albers also discussed the recent acquisition of Heritage Aviation and its impact on systems engineering, manned […] More

The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has agreed to cooperate with the Digital Twin Consortium in efforts to drive sector adoption of computer technology used to create virtual representations of a physical system in the pre-production process. Both parties intend to collaborate on shaping standards, requirements and interoperability approaches to help companies implement the […] More

Stratolaunch has expanded its board of directors with the addition of Kamiar Karimi, former Boeing executive, and Daniel Goldin, who previously served at NASA as its administrator. Zachary Krevor, president of Stratolaunch, said in a statement published Monday the new directors will provide the California-based high-speed flight testing company with advice based on their experience […] More

James Reilly II, retired NASA astronaut and former director of the U.S. Geological Survey, has been named as an executive adviser at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he will focus on its aerospace account. In his new position, Reilly will work with the firm’s Department of Defense, NASA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, intelligence community and commercial space […] More

The SpaceX-built Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts from NASA and foreign space agencies was launched Friday using the company's Falcon 9 rocket for a six-month scientific research mission on the International Space Station. NASA said Friday Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Frontier Aerospace has concluded design tests of attitude control thrusters under a NASA effort that seeks booster systems for deep space use, Space News reported Tuesday. The company has designed and trialed propulsion technologies that would use mixed nitrogen oxide fuels to propel the Peregrine lunar lander, under the space agency's Thruster for the Advancement of Low-temperature Operation in Space or TALOS effort.

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Bell has opened an office in Wichita, Kan., that will house the Textron subsidiary's corporate, manufacturing, supply chain and engineering functions and programs that support aerospace customers. The new facility is part of an investment to grow Bell operations after the U.S. Army selected the aircraft manufacturer to participate in two of the service branch's modernization programs, Textron said Thursday.

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Textron’s Bell subsidiary has awarded contracts to Rolls-Royce and aerospace technology manufacturer Astronics to provide propulsion and power generation systems to support Bell’s bid for the U.S. Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition.

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have been conducting tests to evaluate the performance of SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship that launched three weeks ago as part of the first manned mission from U.S. soil to the orbiting laboratory in nearly a decade, Teslarati reported Friday.

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Ball Aerospace has handed over to the University of Arizona a low-heat leak tank designed to support a NASA balloon mission throughout its entire flight.

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Makenzie Lystrup, Ball Aerospace’s vice president and general manager for civil space, has been inducted as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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