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.
This month U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command (Afsoc) will declare operational its most powerful new airborne gunship, the Lockheed Martin AC-130J Ghostrider.
New and legacy federal information technology providers, including many aerospace and defense prime contractors, are finally seeing substantial money flowing toward their cloud-based service offerings.
Swiss air navigation service provider Skyguide has completed the first demonstration of drone airspace integration using Europe’s planned U-space unmanned traffic management services.
Cobham hopes the system, when it is fielded, will help the Pentagon collect data needed to identify the root cause of the so-called “physiological events” that have plagued U.S. Air Force and Navy pilots.
The U.S. Air Force anticipates delivery of the first “cross-decked” EC-37B Compass Call airborne electronic attack aircraft from L3 Technologies in 2021.
