US 'escalating' spy flights over North Korea, 160 flights in April

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

North Korea has accused the US of stepping up its reconnaissance overflights last month. The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Saturday that US spy planes, including U-2s, had flown an average of more than five missions a day over North Korean airspace during April, totalling 160...

USAF Continues Fuel Cell Research

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

EATONTOWN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2006--Millennium Cell Inc. (NASDAQ: MCEL), a leading developer of hydrogen battery technology, today announced that it has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research Program ("SBIR") contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory ("AFRL") to dev...

LM Team Launches 2nd Payload for MDA's Critical Measurements/Countermeasures Program

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

KAUAI, Hawaii, April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT - News) team today successfully launched a scientific payload for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA's) Critical Measurements/Countermeasures Program to study measurements from various missile defense sensors.

Tyndall receives F-22 maintenance trainer

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AFPN) -- An F-22A Raptor touched down at Tyndall April 19 on its final flight. The aircraft will now be the new ground instructional trainer, solely dedicated as the airframe for aircraft maintenance technical school students.

$1 billion to Fix F-22A Raptor Structural Flaws

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

The U.S. Air Force has discovered structural flaws in its most expensive fighter jet that could cost roughly $1 billion to test for and fix, service officials said. F-22A Raptor program officials have found weaknesses in structures that attach the wing and tail to the plane’s fu...

An alternate Vision for Space Exploration

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

NASA's plan for implementing the Vision for Space Exploration requires developing major new launch vehicles and other hardware, efforts that may already be encountering problems. Eric Hedman offers an alternative approach, one that emphasizes better use of the International Space Station and...

NASA New Horizons in Space: The First 100 Days

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

April 29 marks another milestone in New Horizons' historic journey to Pluto - the spacecraft's 100th day of flight. "It's been a good flight so far, and we're working to keep it that way," says New Horizons Mission Operations Manager Alice Bowman, of the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics...

Air Force bids an emotional farewell to MiG25s

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

Bareilly: An era came to an end in Indian Air Force history on Monday, when one of its most powerful planes, the MiG25, was phased out. Presiding over the ceremony tinged with emotion, Air Chief Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi, the Chief of Air Staff, and other senior IAF commanders bid...

Giant radar revisits Islands

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

Seeping seawater has forced the U.S. military's most powerful missile defense radar to abort a voyage from Hawaii to Alaska, delaying the $815 million device's arrival at its home port. The giant, white bulbous radar dome — looking like a King Kong-sized golf ball — return...

Global Hawk Demonstrates Counter-Drug Surveillance Applicability

Posted at: Mon May 1st, 2006

SAN DIEGO, May 1, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Global Hawk unmanned aerial system has shown its utility as a persistent counter-drug surveillance asset in Congressionally Directed Demonstration flights over the southern U.S., along the Gulf of Mexico and into the Car...