AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that over the next ten years, demand for maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services generated by Western-designed military transport helicopters will total $130 billion.
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The Pentagon has rolled back an Obama administration requirement that sought to make companies better align their so-called independent R&D with Defense Department technology goals.
Sikorsky is beginning major assembly of the first aircraft of the U.S. Air Force’s HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH) program at its production facility in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
The main engine of the forthcoming H3 Japanese space launcher has performed successfully in a series of hot-fire tests, with program engineers working toward a first flight in around three years.
Reaction Engines has won a contract from Darpa to conduct high-temperature testing of the pre-cooler technology at the heart of its proposed hypersonic air-breathing combined cycle Sabre rocket concept.
India’s state-run space agency has begun work on IRNSS-1I, the ninth satellite of the country’s navigation constellation, following the failed launch of a backup satellite last month.
The two most serious issues are uncommanded refueling boom extensions and the boom operator’s inability to detect when the probe has missed the receiver aircraft’s receptacle and causes damage.
Sierra Nevada Corp. has offered the first glimpse of its “Freedom Aircraft” prototype, originally conceived for the U.S. Air Force's $16 billion T-X trainer competition.
The Atlantic I will formally end its 45-year career in October in favor of the Leonardo P-72, a maritime patrol version of the ATR-72-600 turboprop-powered regional airliner.
Osiris-Rex, NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample return mission spacecraft, swooped close to Earth on Sept. 22 for a planned gravity assist maneuver on its way to the space rock Bennu.
The retrofitting of more than 200 early versions of the F-35 already out in the fleet with the new configuration of the Martin-Baker ejection seat will not be completed until about summer 2019.
