The CEO and founder of the aerospace and defense-focused Starburst Accelerator incubator, Francois Chopard, is forming a venture capital fund and has turned his attention to it full time. Chopard told Aviation Week early in 2016 he would like to add a fund to the incubator's portfolio, and on Aug.
The U.S. Defense Department’s acquisition executive has signed off on the Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program’s entry into technology maturation.
Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), manufacturer of the Airlander 10 hybrid airship, has begun an investigation into the cause of the hard landing that damaged the aircraft during its second post-rebuild flight.
Japan would purchase six Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings under the budget request that the defense ministry has submitted for the fiscal year beginning in April 2017.
The Perlan 2 stratospheric glider has arrived in Argentina to begin flight testing aimed at breaking the world altitude record for gliders of 50,671 ft.—set in Argentina in August 2006 by the Perlan 1—en route to achieving the goal of flying at 90,000 ft.
Elbit Systems of America is drawing up plans to offer commercial services using a company-owned fleet of Hermes 450 large unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
The Royal Australian Navy plans to acquire unmanned helicopters as part of experiments aimed at fielding an operational shipborne surveillance system within 10 years.
As SpaceX begins investigating the causes of the Sept. 1 accident that destroyed a Falcon 9 and its payload, questions are mounting over the near- and far-term implications of the failure for the launch company, its commercial customers, NASA and the U.S. Air Force.
NASA astronauts Jeff Williams and Kate Rubins retracted an aging, deactivated 44-ft.-long International Space Station thermal control system radiator during a Sept. 1 spacewalk.
A cubesat from a team at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, has been selected by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the first to be launched under the KiboCUBE program.
Raytheon Missile Systems is one flight test away from securing its second production lot for the GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II, which buys 250 units of the network-enabled, all-weather glide bomb.
An attack version of the Lockheed Martin-Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic trainer aircraft could be next in line to receive an airworthiness appraisal from the U.S. Air Force.
Might launching human explorers to Mars, as NASA hopes to do by the mid-2030s, accelerate the pace of discovery and possibly even settle the question of whether the Red Planet once hosted some form of life and possibly still does?
Two years after its ninth and final flight, Boeing’s high-altitude, long-endurance Phantom Eye UAV subscale prototype is to become an exhibit at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB in California.
