India’s IRNSS-1H navigation satellite, which failed to reach its intended orbit following its Aug. 31 launch, is expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in 40-60 days.
The fate of United Technologies Corp.’s proposed $30 billion takeover of avionics and cabin interiors leader Rockwell Collins could rest on savings that the newly enlarged supplier provides to all-important customer Boeing.
The Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft program has been in development since November 2015, intended to replace the U.S. Army’s C-12 Huron and C-26 Metroliner fleets.
France’s MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude, long endurance (MALE) unmanned air vehicles (UAV), thus far used for surveillance purposes, will soon carry air-to-ground weapons.
Germany startup Lilium has received $90 million in investment to continue development of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) urban air transport aircraft.
Lockheed Martin is pursuing a close integration between the Orion crew capsule it is developing for NASA and the proposed lunar-orbiting Deep Space Gateway and follow-on Deep Space Transport.
The gates to NASA’s storm-drenched Johnson Space Center reopened Sept. 5, with space agency managers hopeful that operations will return to normal as soon as possible.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved possible $350m Foreign Military Sale to Australia ofMH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopter upgrade program. ISRAEL AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES delivered first LRSAM missile to India Aug. 27. CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY INC. has $36.9m U.S. Missile Defense Agency contract for technical and analytical support related to Guidance, Navigation and Control technologies.
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Startup Advanced Aircraft Corp. (AAC) plans to begin deliveries of its Hercules long-endurance multirotor small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) in December.
The U.S. Air Force's OA-X experiment is not an aircraft-procurement program, and neither is a new initiative announced back in July, called Light Attack Support for Special Operations (LASSO).
Missile defense features prominently in the latest budget request of the Japanese defense ministry, with plans for acquiring Aegis Ashore and additional ground- and sea-based interceptors.
“The [spacecraft's] heat shield did not separate, as a result of which the satellite didn’t complete the fourth stage,” says A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.
