A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a U.S.-built Japanese communications Satellite early Aug. 14, and used three of its nine engines to return its first stage to a picture-perfect tail-down landing on a robotic barge downrange from the Cape Canaveral launch site.
Charges for the Royal Air Force pilot who sent an Airbus A330 Voyager tanker into a dive are perjury, making a false record and negligently performing a duty, according to a British newspaper report.
The latest tests of the updated US16E seat and new lightweight helmet used mannequins in the lowest weight class, representing pilots who face the greatest risk during an ejection.
According to the Algerian defense ministry, the agreement covers the manufacturing of three types of light and medium helicopter for military and parapublic use.
The U.K. defense ministry has set aside £800 million to develop new defense technologies as part of an initiative to change the way the British defense ministry works with industry.
Aurora Flight Sciences is to base a Centaur optionally piloted aircraft at Lonesome Pine Airport in Wise County, Virginia, in a move to help develop the ...
The outgoing commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe (USAFE), Air Force Gen. Frank Gorenc, sat down with Aviation Week Pentagon Editor Lara Seligman in Fairford, England, during the Royal International Air Tattoo in July.
NanoRacks, which pioneered commercial payload accommodation on the International Space Station (ISS), is teaming to study a concept for converting spent launch-vehicle upper stages into pressurized habitats.
As the long-troubled CH-148 Cyclone program enters its 12th year this November, Canadian government officials say Sikorsky is now executing according to the contract.
Sierra Nevada Corp. plans to base a new deep-space habitat concept on the cargo module it is developing to mount behind the Dream Chaser reusable mini-shuttle.
The Indian Space Research Organization is polling scientists “to come up with proposals for carrying out more substantive scientific experiments” on its second Mars probe.
Equipping South Korean destroyers with SM-3s would be the latest in a series of measures in which Seoul and Washington are strongly reinforcing the country’s defenses against a growing North Korean ballistic-missile threat.
If the Pentagon is forced to operate under a stopgap spending measure for an extended period, funding for Northrop Grumman to engineer and develop the B-21 will be capped at fiscal 2016 levels.
As the Pentagon considers pulling the plug on Raytheon’s troubled GPS ground-control system, the company says it is focused on completing key milestones and controlling cost by staying on schedule.
