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The Last Word Video Supplement Peter Antoinette

Oct. 3, 2012

Skyler Frink speaks with Peter Antoinette, CEO of Nanocomp Technologies, about carbon nanotube technology and its applications for military and aerospace electronics.

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Busek delivers thrusters for NASA Lunar Gateway power and propulsion

Jamie Whitney

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A U.S. Marine aviation ordnance system technician loads a 2.75-inch rocket configured with Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II into an LAU-68 F/A rocket launcher at Yuma Marine Corps Air Station, Ariz., last March.

Sensors

BAE Systems to build kits to turn rockets into low-cost laser-guided precision munitions in $1.7 billion deal

John Keller

Sept. 17, 2025

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Communications

Redwire selected as prime contractor for ESA Skinsat VLEO mission

Jamie Whitney

Sept. 17, 2025

A Navy bridge officer monitors an AN/SPS-73(V) surface-search radar aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) in March 2022.

Sensors

Navy taps Ultra for next-generation surface-search radar with digital signal processing to combat clutter

John Keller

Sept. 17, 2025

Maintainers perform a hydrazine safety check on the agency’s quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft at U.S. Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California, on 18 Aug. 2025. Hydrazine is a highly toxic chemical, but it serves as a critical backup to restart the engine in flight, if necessary, and is one of several safety features being validated ahead of the aircraft’s first flight. Lockheed Martin photo.

Commercial Aerospace

Safety systems at the core of NASA's future supersonic flights in X-59

Sept. 17, 2025