Sierra Nevada News

Rep. Ander Crenshaw, R-Jacksonville, talks with Embraer SA CEO Frederico Curado at the ribbon-cutting for the Brazilian plane-maker's hangar at Jacksonville International Airport.

Embraer and Sierra Nevada Corp. on Thursday announced the Government Accountability Office has rejected Beechcraft's protest of the Light Air Support contract the U.S. Air Force awarded to the partner companies earlier this year.

The United States Army's Program Office for Electronic Warfare and Sierra Nevada Corporation celebrated the final delivery of over 3,000 " Baldr " units due under the Army's Individual Counter Radio Controlled Improvised Explosive Device Electronics Warfare program at SNC's production facility in Sparks, Nev.

The test is being done as part of hybrid rocket motor qualification for the Dream Chaser, which was last tested in 2010 under the Commercial Crew Development Program Space Act Agreement.

Boeing, SpaceX and the Sierra Nevada Corporation have achieved major milestones in their space programs, testing the vehicles they hope will carry astronauts into orbit and reestablish NASA's manned space program.

Sierra Nevada Corporation announces the successful start of the latest phase of hybrid rocket motor qualification testing for the Dream Chaser flight vehicle.

The U.S. Air Force was set to deliver aircraft to the Afghan military in April. Its suppliers have just started building them.

With the ending of the Space Shuttle program, NASA is now turning to private companies to design and build new spacecraft to take astronauts into orbit.

It was surely one of those moments where NASA could hardly wait to tear off the shrink wrap.

Sierra Nevada Corp.'s space flight vehicle is being tested at Edwards, Calif. for flight and runway landing systems operation, in advance of ISS and low-Earth orbit deployment.