The Polish defense ministry is restarting a tender for multi-role helicopters just days after canceling a $3.5 billion deal with Airbus for 50 H225M Caracal aircraft.
In a bid to strengthen strategic partnerships with its main allies, Russia has agreed to supply the S-400 Triumph, its most advanced anti-aircraft defense system, to India, with deliveries starting in 2020.
The FAA will hold an industry day in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 25 to discuss details of its fast-developing plan to take over elements of international space traffic control management duties from the U.S. military.
Thales’ new Talios laser targeting pod started flight tests on a Rafale combat aircraft on July 27, the company has revealed, and development is continuing on schedule toward a 2018 service entry on the type.
Aurora Flight Sciences is flying a Cessna Caravan fitted with a robotic copilot as part of a Darpa program to demonstrate automation that could reduce the crew required to fly existing aircraft.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved possible $194m foreign military sale to Kuwait of six short-range Gap Filler Radars, one Long Range Radar, upgrades to existing AN/FPS 117 (V) 3 Long Range Radar, plus other upgrades and support. THALES’ Talios (TArgeting Long-range Identification Optronic System) laser targeting pod had first flight on DASSAULT Rafale fighter in July at Istres air base.
Earth observation remains the primary application for emerging space programs, Euroconsult says, and growing funding in these programs is a key driver for overall space investment growth. Over the next decade, 419 satellites are slated to be launched, generating $35.5 billion in manufacturing revenue. The satellite-based commercial data market totaled $1.7 billion in 2015 but is expected to total $3 billion by 2025, according to Euroconsult’s report.
Orbital ATK’s Antares launch vehicle has returned to flight two years after a spectacular liftoff explosion en route to the International Space Station with a load of supplies.
Aurora Flight Sciences is flying a Cessna Caravan fitted with a robotic copilot as part of a Darpa program to demonstrate automation that could reduce the crew required to fly existing aircraft.
Lockheed believes the new battlefield necessitates a lower-signature—if not fully stealth—refueling aircraft that moves away from the commercial-derivative tankers of years past.
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and spacecraft builder Lockheed Martin Space Systems are troubleshooting the sluggish performance of two propulsion system helium check valves aboard the Juno spacecraft.
An Australian parliamentary committee has called for preparation in case of further delay in the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning program, increasing the possibility of the country ordering more Boeing Super Hornets.
An international fleet of unmanned aerial, underwater and surface vehicles is gathered in Scotland for a naval exercise designed to prove unmanned technologies.
The U.S. Navy says it has developed and tested the air show routine the Blue Angels will use when the team takes to the skies with its next aircraft, the F/A-18E Super Hornet, in 2020 or before.
The Japanese defense ministry looks increasingly likely to recommend building an indigenous fighter for service in the 2030s under the designation F-3.
Two Chinese astronauts have lifted off for the the Tiangong 2 docking target, a Salyut-class mini-space station acting as a training ground for operations at the larger orbital laboratory planned for launch in 2022.
A CNES satellite, in orbit since April, is in the middle of an instrument check phase before attempting to verify Einstein’s theory of general relativity with unprecedented precision—or partially invalidate it.
Controllers have maneuvered the Jason-2 spacecraft into an orbital slot 162 deg. away from the new Jason-3 satellite, giving weather forecasters and climate researchers a one-two punch.
Planet, a hot San Francisco-based Earth-observation startup that has launched dozens of CubeSat-class spacecraft into low Earth orbit (LEO), will provide daily imagery updates to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
