MARINETTE, Wis., Aug. 14, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-led industry team officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s 23rd Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Cooperstown, in a ceremony held at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin.
PLANO, Texas, Aug. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Boeing [NYSE: BA] today named Brendan Curran president of Boeing AvionX, an organization formed last year to pursue the development and production of avionics and electronics systems.
(JACKSONVILLE, Fla.; August 13, 2018) Crowley LOGISTICS is providing logistics management and transportation of supplies and equipment needed by first responders battling the devastating wildfires in California.
As the investigation is in its early stages, it is difficult to draw firm conclusions on the implications of the incident for airport security, but it is clear that existing practices either were not followed, or proved insufficient to prevent Richard Russell from entering the cockpit of the aircraft and taxiing out.
The Camera On series from MMP Books is proving very popular. An This new addition to the series is an outstanding photo essay that uses rare German images shot after the Wehrmacht occupied the town and beaches of Dunkirk. – Highly Recommended.
NASA, ULA Launch Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to Touch Sun
 The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket launches NASA’s Parker Solar Probe to touch the Sun, Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. Parker Solar Probe is humanity’s first-ever mission into a part of the Sun’s atmosphere called the corona. Here it will directly explore solar processes that are key to understanding and forecasting space weather events that can impact life on Earth.
Credits: NASA/Bill Ingalls |
 Renowned physicist Eugene Parker watches the launch of the spacecraft that bears his name – NASA’s Parker Solar Probe – early in the morning on Aug. 12, 2018, from Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Credits: NASA/Glenn Benson |
Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit its first science observations in December, beginning a revolution in our understanding of the star that makes life on Earth possible.
Chemring Group PLC (“Chemring” or “the Group”) confirms that at approximately 5pm on Friday 10th August, an incident occurred in a flare manufacturing building at the Chemring Countermeasures (“CCM”) facility, near Salisbury.
DALLAS, Aug. 10, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today U.S. and Sweden officials formalized an agreement for Sweden to purchase Lockheed Martin’s (NYSE: LMT) Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Missile Segment Enhancement (MSE) missiles and related support equipment. Once the contract is signed, Sweden will become the sixth international customer to sign an agreement to procure PAC-3 MSE.
