U.K. defense ministers say they have secured agreements from France to consider the MBDA Brimstone air-to-surface missile for the French army’s fleet of Tiger attack helicopters.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is using U.S. Air Force funds to integrate the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1 engine into a kerosene-fueled variant of its planned Vulcan launch vehicle, but will use it only if Blue Origin falls seriously short of a development schedule that currently would hot-fire the methane-fueled BE-4 by the end of this year.
U.S. helicopter service provider Era Group has become the third operator to sign up to develop new missions for the AgustaWestland AW609 commercial tiltrotor.
White House science advisor John Holdren pledged support for NASA’s human Mars exploration ambitions as part of a Washington homecoming delegation that greeted U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly here early March 3.
The assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition and the chief of naval operations are seeking a special review of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fleet to better determine how to crew and operate the ships.
Seeker Aircraft will begin manufacturing its light observation aircraft in the U.S., the company said. It was previously manufactured only in Australia.
The U.S. Navy may want to get as many operational F-35 Joint Strike Fighters as it can into the fleet as soon as possible, but it also needs to keep the F-18 aircraft line up and running to meet potential tactical aircraft shortfalls down the road, officials say.
Finmeccanica Helicopters is days away from conducting the first flight of its AW109 Trekker, the skidded version of its AW109 twin-engine light helicopter.
Space marathoners Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko said March 2 they felt glad to be back on Earth after 340 days aboard the International Space Station.
Sikorsky’s next commercial product will likely feature fly-by-wire and a high degree of automation, but it is undecided whether such a platform will benefit from the company’s X2 high-speed technologies
Russia’s Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft descended onto the subfreezing plains of Central Kazakhstan late March 1, delivering NASA astronaut Scott Kelly and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko safely to Earth after their 340-day mission to the International Space Station.
Finmeccanica Helicopters is negotiating with the FAA to restart flight tests of the AW609 commercial tiltrotor, following the loss of the second prototype last October.
Aerojet Rocketdyne plans to use its new partnership with the U.S. Air Force and United Launch Alliance to complete the AR1 engine for a kerosene-fueled version of ULA’s planned Vulcan launcher.
Honeywell International said early March 1 it would no longer pursue a merger with United Technologies under the terms the companies discussed last month.
Solar Impulse 2 (Si2) has completed its first test flight following a battery system upgrade and ahead of restarting its solar-powered round-the-world flight attempt in April from Hawaii.
Airbus Helicopters is planning to demonstrate its H215 – the modernized variant of the Super Puma twin-engine heavy helicopter – to several U.S. government agencies.
