Press Releases

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Northrop Grumman's Cygnus spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station with about 7,400 pounds of cargo after launching at 4:01 a.m. EST Saturday from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and the Departments of State and Commerce have submitted a report to the National Space Council outlining future opportunities and challenges for human spaceflight in low-Earth orbit (LEO), and its potential economic contributions to the broader field of exploration.  

WESTMINSTER, CO, Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR) ("Maxar" or the "Company"), a global technology innovator powering the new space economy, today announced that shareholders approved the Company's U.S. domestication at a special meeting held earlier today in Westminster, Colorado. A total of

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA will host a media teleconference at noon EST Monday, Nov. 19, to provide details about the Mars 2020 rover's landing site on the Red Planet.

ANNVILLE, Pa., Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Southeastern Veterans' Center (SEVC) in Spring City today inducted two local veterans and 35 Medal of Honor recipients into its Hall of Fame. The SEVC is one of six veterans homes operated by the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affair

DENVER, Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- TAGSAM, or Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism, completed a successful practice deployment in space on Nov. 14—an important milestone in the OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu. TAGSAM is the first-of-its-kind robotic arm and sampling

SINGAPORE, Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Jet Aviation won its fourth consecutive award for best aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) provider at the Asian Business Aviation Association's (AsBAA) 2018 "Icons of Aviation" event held in Hong Kong on November 10, 2018.  The annual event recog

PALMDALE, Calif., Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Skunk Works® began manufacturing the first part for the X-59 Quiet Supersonic Technology aircraft, marking a milestone to bring supersonic commercial travel over land one step closer to reality.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The families of three U.S. Army Special Forces members murdered at the King Faisal Air Base in Jordan in 2016 filed a federal lawsuit accusing the kingdom of Jordan of complicity in the alleged terrorist incident and of attempting to cover it up, the families' la

HAMBURG, Germany, Nov. 16, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Pratt & Whitney, a division of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) and Vietnam Airlines celebrated delivery of the airline's first Airbus A321neo aircraft powered by Pratt & Whitney GTF™ engines.  Vietnam Airlines is leasing the aircraft from Aviation Capital Group (ACG).  The airline announced s

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA has received an unmodified audit opinion on its Fiscal Year 2018 financial statements, marking the eight consecutive "clean" opinion from an external auditor – the highest opinion that may be received.

BOSTON, Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Azima, Inc. has released the 2018 edition of its definitive reliability scores for the industrial pumps most commonly deployed around the world today.  Azima has ranked not just the world's leading industrial pump brands, but specific models as well. 

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- While the economy continues to churn and retailers anticipate heavy holiday spending, a recent survey of the military shows these trends aren't necessarily carrying over to our nation's military families, where 42% plan on spending less on the holidays than they did in 2017 and the use of credit cards will be up near

FREMONT, Calif., Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Ms. Cyndi Krisan, Executive Director of Corporate Business Development at Ravenswood Solutions, will assume the role of Chair of the National Training & Simulation Association (NTSA) Executive Committee on November 28th.  She will be the first female to hold this title. Ms.

WARRENTON, Va., Nov. 15, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The leading-edge aerospace propulsion company SPARC Research announced today that they have received a contract from Draper to provide propulsion design and analysis support for a future hypersonic interceptor weapon.  The concept is based on advanced airbreathing propulsion technologies enabling extended flight a