NASA’s Cassini spacecraft took a final swing around Titan Sept. 11, taking advantage of the giant moon’s gravity to slingshot itself onto a dead-end path into Saturn’s atmosphere.
Bahrain looks set to provide a lifeline to Lockheed Martin’s F-16 production line after making a formal request to purchase 19 F-16Vs and upgrade 20 of its existing fighters to the F-16V standard.
Veteran NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson is hopeful her recent extended mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS) will help medical experts better understand the physical and mental challenges sure to accompany missions spanning months or years to Mars and other deep-space destinations.
Sikorsky has begun prepping its second S-97 Raider prototype for flight in 2018, taking over from aircraft No. 1 that was badly damaged in a hard landing on Aug. 2.
Kennedy Space Center (KSC) will remain closed until at least Sept. 13, pending damage assessments from Hurricane Irma, which sideswiped the oceanside spaceport from Sept. 10 through early Sept. 11.
A Sept. 5 accident at the Nevada Test and Training Range that killed a U.S. Air Force test pilot appears to have involved a foreign aircraft type operated by the service’s secretive Red Hat unit.
Britain is in talks with the U.S. government about the potential purchase of MH-47G special operations Chinook helicopters as part of a drive to build closer fleet commonality with the U.S. Army.
Airbus is planning for Hforce, a generic weapons system the company is fitting into its H125M, H145M and H225M helicopters, to be qualified on the H145M during 2018.
The U.S. private sector is poised to partner with NASA, academia and others to unleash lunar resources capable of expanding the global economic sphere on par with the Industrial Revolution, top executives told a House Space panel.
Prompted by a brutal 2016 wildfire season, Los Angeles County has purchased two Sikorsky S-70is for conversion to Firehawk firefighting and multimission helicopters.
Former Turkish military pilots who refuse to return and complete their compulsory military service could find their commercial pilot licenses canceled because of a new decree issued by the country’s government.
A redacted U.S. Government Accountability Office document reveals claims by Bombardier that the U.S. Air Force “effectively directed” L3 Technologies to choose Gulfstream’s G550 for the EC-X Compass Call program.
DASSAULT AVIATION performed flight demonstration of nEUROn unmanned combat air vehicle for French Defense Minister Florence Parly and defense procurement agency chief Joël Barre Sept. 4 at company facility in Istres. GENERAL ELECTRIC has $91.6m U.S. Navy contract for 24 Lot 21A full-rate production F414-GE-400 engines for F/A-18E/F aircraft.
The M-345 is an Italian single-engine advanced jet trainer (AJT) produced by Leonardo, which refers to the aircraft as the “High Efficiency Trainer (HET).”
The Pentagon’s new F-35 program executive officer is pressing to finalize a deal with manufacturer Lockheed Martin on the next batch of aircraft by Oct. 15.
