The Japanese defense ministry has penciled in the purchase of naval intelligence-gathering aircraft for the five-year defense program that will begin next year.
Chinese space industry group Casc has test fired a space-launcher booster that it says has the greatest thrust of any solid-propellant motor in the country.
The Israeli Air Force is preparing a crew to operate the Boeing 767 aircraft that will carry the nation’s president and prime minister when it is delivered in early 2019.
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Engineers from Elon Musk’s SpaceX and The Boring Co., a tunneling business, spent last weekend repurposing a Falcon 9 liquid oxygen transfer tube into the hull of a 31-cm sub that could be used in the ongoing rescue of a boys’ soccer team.
The acquisition program could take the form of a domestic developmental effort or a foreign off-the-shelf purchase, defense ministry officials said in an interview.
Airbus is reporting progress for two missions in Solar System exploration and exoplanet characterization—the Mars Sample Return mission and the Cheops satellite.
European industry needs to unite around one fighter program to compete with U.S. rivals, Airbus officials have suggested. European industry is currently producing three different fighters, the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Dassault Rafale and the Saab Gripen.
