House of Commons unhappy about JSF plans

Posted at: Fri Mar 3rd, 2006

Members of the Select Committee on Defence are worried about setbacks in the Joint Strike Fighter program, possible cuts by the united States, and the UK's '...

Astronauts blast science budget cuts

Posted at: Fri Mar 3rd, 2006

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The Bush administration's focus on big, expensive space missions is starving budgets for some of NASA's most productive small-scale science programs, astronomers told the U.S. Congress on Thursday. "The 2007 budget is tilted to an unhealthy extent to large miss...

ISS 'to be completed as planned'

Posted at: Fri Mar 3rd, 2006

The heads of the five space agencies in charge of the International Space Station (ISS) have held talks on the future of the facility. The agency chiefs from Canada, Russia, the US, Europe and Japan met at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ...

US offers F-16s, F-18s for India's air force

Posted at: Fri Mar 3rd, 2006

The major defense giants are fighting a though battle to win a $9-bn fighter aircraft deal. Six companies are currently competing; Lockheed Martin (F-16), Boeing (F/A-18), French company Dassault (...

US Air Force starts final F-22 talks with Lockheed Martin

Posted at: Fri Mar 3rd, 2006

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The U.S. Air Force on Thursday announced the launch of talks with Lockheed Martin Corp. (LMT) and United Technologies Corp.'s (UTX) Pratt & Whitney unit on the final round of F-22 stealth fighter purchases.

Senate committee to hold hearing on JSF alternate engine

Posted at: Fri Mar 3rd, 2006

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., on Thursday said he would soon call hearings on the Pentagon's plan to kill the F-35 alternate en...