Russia has approved a 10-year, 1.4 trillion ruble ($20.51 billion) budget for space programs, according to a March 17 announcement posted on the government’s website.
Navantia is poised to win another Australian naval construction program following the choice of the Spanish company as preferred supplier for two replenishment ships.
Norwegian defense firm Kongsberg has purchased the minority stake in its Finnish counterpart Patria, consolidating a chunk of the Scandinavian defense industry.
The U.K. Civil Aviation Authority has postponed a planned price hike in air show charges that would have seen administration fees for U.K. air displays increase by 100%.
Adding radar reflectors and transponders to cubesats and other tiny spacecraft is one way private industry can make it easier to deconflict increasingly crowded orbits, a top U.S. Air Force officials suggested March 17.
The U.S./European Jason-3 oceanography satellite has successfully generated its global map of sea surface elevation measurements, data that reveals a tailing off of high eastern Pacific sea levels associated with El Nino that peaked in January.
Industry needs more clarity on what the U.S. Defense Department plans for its Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative beyond the Joint Multi Role (JMR) technology demonstration now underway, the head of Sikorsky’s military business says.
After years of squabbling with Congress over high-altitude intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms, Lockheed Martin is continuing to pitch its UAV concept as a way to settle the matter.
The U.K. defense ministry is sponsoring a firing trial of MBDA’s Brimstone 2 air-to-ground missile from an AH-64E Apache as it mulls whether the weapon will be become the primary armament of a planned fleet of the upgraded attack helicopter.
L-3 has started wing modification work on Virgin Galactic’s decommissioned 747-400, “Cosmic Girl,” the mother ship for the company’s LauncherOne small satellite launch service.
China appears to have too few conventional intermediate-range ballistic missiles for even attacks on the most crucial targets, raising the possibility that the numbers of such weapons will be increased, a report says.
The next new U.S. fighter might not enter service for 30 years, but may not be needed before then if the Pentagon invests in modernization of the “5th-generation” F-22 and F-35, the head of Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works says.
U.S. and European thought leaders in air traffic management are confident that civil unmanned air vehicles will drive the architecture of the next-generation ATM system.
Although the U.S. Navy continues to be plagued by breathing issues reported by pilots flying F-18 line aircraft, the described severity of those issues is decreasing, according to service officials.
The commerce panel’s bill, issued March 9, calls for a variety of changes and upgrades to FAA programs, but nothing as drastic as the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s proposal in February to separate the FAA’s air traffic control and modernization roles to a new non-profit, non-share government-chartered corporation.
The Navy has developed and started to field two major improvements for the F-18 aircraft line breathing systems that service officials say are making a difference for air crews and helping to cut down on hypoxia or other similar episodes.
While the Navy has been investigating reports of possible breathing-related incidents across the spectrum of F-18 aircraft, certain types of issues or causes seemed to related to aircraft type, service officials say.
