In a maneuver called a “superlift,” Newport News Shipbuilding recently placed a 965-ton structure for the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier CVN 79 John F. Kennedy into dry dock.
Shortly after the aircraft arrived in Kiruna in northern Sweden for the test flights, flight permissions for the aircraft were withdrawn and the authorities demanded the aircraft leave the country.
European launch consortium Arianespace has for the third time scrubbed the launch of five satellites atop a Soyuz launch vehicle from the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana.
Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) is preparing to perform the first flight of its new Anka-S medium altitude, long endurance (MALE), unmanned air system (UAS).
NASA’s exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope on April 22 resumed its role in a novel gravitational microlensing campaign to seek out extrasolar planets in the outermost orbits of their host stars and Jupiter-sized planets called free floaters that drift between the stars.
NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is seeking design proposals from U.S. industry for an advanced Mars Orbiter concept to support a range of future exploration activities, including a robotic sample return mission and human landing site selection.
India is in the final stages of its negotiations with France to purchase 36 Dassault Rafale fighters, Indian Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar says, but the deal has not yet been finalized.
The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) X-2 fighter-technology demonstrator flew on April 22, around five years later than expected when the program was launched in 2007.
The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis used the South Korean destroyer Gang Gam-chan to land aircraft recently during Exercise Foal Eagle in the waters surrounding the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. Navy says.
Concerned that funding support for the Pentagon’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative is inadequate, a House Armed Services panel’s markup of the fiscal 2017 defense budget would require the U.S. Army to report on technology development efforts by January 2017.
Hanwha Thales has been selected to develop a prototype radar for the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X fighter, beating rival LIG Nex1, a company that previously seemed to be the country’s anointed fighter-radar specialist.
U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly flashed his wit and shared his insights into the challenges of long-duration human spaceflight when he and his International Space Station crew mates were honored April 20.
The U.S. Navy completed a milestone earlier this month with the installation of the first UAV command center aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson.
