LEONARDO-FINMECCANICA’s multi-mission C-27J Spartan began tour to demonstrate its capabilities to a number of Latin American countries. The aircraft will travel the length of the continent from Panama to La Paz, Buenos Aires and on to Argentina’s Antarctic Air Base of Marambio. L-3 COMMUNICATIONS has $208m Australian Defense Force (ADF) contract under the LAND 53 Phase 1BR program, to deliver soldier modernization technology.
The global mobile satellite services market should expand at a compound annual growth rate of 7.83% by 2020, Technavio forecasts. Increasing demand for satcom in emergency situations and real-time location data using so-called Internet of Things technology are major market drivers. But the sector faces challenges including congestion of frequency bands.
SpaceX envisions building a massive constellation of 4,425 small spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) over the next decade to provide satellite-internet with “full and continuous global coverage,” according to the company’s application for FCC approval.
Naval Air Systems Command’s Precision-Strike Weapons office is making preparations to more than double the range of the Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon and Raytheon AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon.
Facebook says the test demonstrated a record data rate of almost 20 Gbps over 13 km (8 mi.), enough to stream almost 1,000 high-definition videos simultaneously.
The U.S. Air Force’s push to regenerate its red air aggressor capability is part of a wider move to improve the fidelity and quality of training for the pilots of fifth-generation aircraft, the commander of Air Combat Command says.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has modified the payload bay of its semi-stealthy, unmanned Avenger aircraft—now dubbed “Angel One”—to deliver humanitarian relief.
Straightline Aviation (SLA), launch customer for Lockheed Martin’s LMH-1 heavy-lift cargo hybrid airship, has signed an agreement to provide dedicated shuttle services for Canadian rare-earth mining company Quest Rare Minerals.
Drone delivery startup Flirtey has begun the first commercial trials of autonomous pizza delivery, flying to customers’ homes from a Domino’s Pizza store in Whangaparaoa, north of Auckland, New Zealand.
Since releasing its Part 107 Small Unmanned Aircraft System rule on Aug. 29, the FAA as of Nov. 9 had received more than 30,000 new aircraft registrations from commercial operators and more than 22,500 remote pilot applications.
Aerospace control system and parts provider Woodward is combining its Engine and Industrial Turbomachinery systems groups into a new Industrial Systems unit.
With the U.S. presidential election season finally over, new and returning members of Congress converge on Washington this week to learn the ropes or resume their work.
BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair, San Diego, is being awarded a maximum value $192,682,485 cost-plus-award-fee, firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
Space-policy advisers to the nascent administration of President-elect Donald Trump see a revived National Space Council under incoming Vice President Mike Pence coordinating civil, military and intelligence space activities from the White House to avoid costly duplication of effort.
The NTSB determined that air traffic controllers failed to safely separate aircraft involved in two fatal 2015 midair collisions—one, near Charleston, South Carolina, involved an Air Force F-16.
The Spanish air force has exited the four-nation Eurofighter development plan in a bid to provide more timely upgrades for its fleet of Tranche 1 aircraft.
Boeing’s defense and space unit will consolidate jobs and cut its work sites by 2020, affecting thousands of positions and cutting roughly 4.5 million sq. ft. of space, the company said Nov. 15.
The NASA Advisory Council’s Human Exploration and Operations committee agreed Nov. 14 to defer deliberations on a SpaceX Falcon 9 liquid oxygen fueling concern.
