After years of massive cost overruns and schedule delays, Raytheon’s next-generation GPS ground-control segment is now facing a new round of trouble – a Pentagon review about whether the program should continue.
Netherlands-based flying car developer PAL-V has begun taking orders for a commercial version of its design planned to be in flight testing by 2017 and in production by 2018.
The British government needs to be “relatively bold” in order to attract investment from business and stabilize the uncertainty caused by the country’s “Brexit” decision to leave the European Union, according to U.K. aerospace trade organization ADS.
Airbus Group and Safran say they will conclude a merger of their space business units June 30 under the new Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) joint venture.
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON—U.S. Navy Lt. Christopher Montague was way off the mark for a safe and solid nominal aircraft carrier landing as he approached—high and right of the seesawing carrier deck.
India has successfully test launched a new medium range surface-to-air missile in a latest effort to secure the country’s skies from enemy fighter aircraft and neutralize aerial attacks.
Materials and special manufacturing giant Alcoa will be the sole supplier of proprietary wing skins and fuselage sheet to Embraer for its E2 family of jet airliners under a multiyear $470 million contract unveiled June 30.
Textron Systems hopes to complete end-to-end testing of its Fury small precision-guided munition against a moving target by late summer or early fall as it looks to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) as the closest step toward widespread integration of the mini weapon with remotely piloted and light attack aircraft.
The U.S. Marine Corps is increasingly relying on aircraft, missile systems and “expeditionary” command and control systems to extend its reach, especially in the remote distances of the Asia-Pacific, says Lt. Gen. John Wissler, commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command.
A trio of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has touched down on British soil, two years after a fleet-wide grounding prompted by an engine fire foiled plans for the aircraft’s international debut in the U.K.
Higher-than-anticipated concentrations of manganese oxides in rock veins studied by NASA’s Curiosity rover in the more than 3.5-billion-year-old Gale Crater on Mars point to an ancient Red Planet environment with higher concentrations of atmospheric oxygen.
Citing advances in modeling and manufacturing, Darpa is to try again to demonstrate a turbine-based combined-cycle (TBCC) engine that can operate from zero airspeed to beyond Mach 5, to power future air-breathing reusable hypersonic vehicles.
The U.S. Marine Corps is set to get its second F-35B squadron this week as the service prepares the fifth-generation fighter jet for its first overseas deployment next year.
With a decision expected soon from an international tribunal on a South China Sea territorial dispute between China and the Philippines, regional security analysts warn the likely ruling against Chinese interests could prompt the Asian giant to try to take even greater control of the skies in the area.
The Canadian government has abandoned the idea of fielding a dual-mission satellite system covering the Arctic region and instead will pursue a dedicated communications constellation with a similar coverage footprint and a price tag of nearly $2 billion.
