Days after delivering a payload of cubesats into orbit, U.S. smallsat launch firm Rocket Lab has closed on an additional financing round of $140 million.
Airspace Technologies, a startup pitching proprietary software for time-definite logistics in air cargo, has raised $20 million in venture capital funding.
Nanosatellite startup AST&Science says Midland, Texas, will be the site of its proposed high-volume North American sat manufacturing plant and corporate HQ.
The Pentagon will present its fiscal 2020 budget request that includes the White House’s mandated 5% spending cut to President Donald Trump the week of Nov. 26.
A petition for exemptions from FAA rules governing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) reveals rotorcraft developer Bell plans to use a large commercial multicopter drone, the xFold DragonH, for research and development flying.
The UK Ministry of Defense has reaffirmed plans to order 17 more Lockheed Martin F-35 fighters as part of a three-year block buy currently being negotiated.
Astronics, an Upstate New York supplier of aircraft passenger seat power and other products to the aerospace and defense (A&D) industry, as well as technologies for the semiconductor sector, said it would move away from the latter to focus more on its growing A&D business.
NASA and Northrop Grumman have delayed for a second day the company’s 10th agency contracted resupply mission launch to the International Space Station.
ArianeGroup will look to cut its workforce by 2,300 workers over the next four years as the European rocket company tries to transition into profitable operations of its new Ariane 6 space launcher.
Elbit Systems has been awarded a $167 million contract from an undisclosed Asia-Pacific country for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to supply aerial ISTAR.
British aerospace and defense pyrotechnics provider Chemring said Nov. 15 that it will divest some explosives business lines in Derby, UK, and Florida.
Aviation Week Network has announced the winners of its 62nd Annual Laureate Awards, recognizing extraordinary achievements in the global aerospace arena.
Investigators probing the first-ever crash of a Leonardo AW169 twin-engine medium helicopter shortly after takeoff from a British football stadium are focusing on the aircraft’s anti-torque control system.
The U.S. Defense Department on Nov. 14 awarded Lockheed Martin a roughly $22 billion undefinitized contract to deliver 255 F-35 aircraft for all three services in the 12th low-rate initial production (LRIP) lot, as well as aircraft for several international customers in Lots 12, 13 and 14.
