The next major review of the SLS will come in 2017, when design certification will compare vehicle hardware with the design, leading to a flight readiness review in 2018.
A lack of inflight and cockpit data continues to shroud the cause of a police helicopter crash that killed 10 people in Glasgow, Scotland, in November 2013.
An upgrade of the South Korean MSAM system aimed at dealing with tactical ballistic missiles will exploit most of the current equipment in modified form.
A micro-light aircraft of the Indian Army Aviation Corps crashed Oct. 21 minutes after taking off near Shillong in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on a routine sortie.
Since implementing a new surface cargo route between the U.S. and Spain, U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella Site Rota cut cargo transit time and costs in half by mid-October.
NASA astronauts are set to resume external upgrades to the International Space Station intended to prepare its U.S. segment for future commercial crew vehicle dockings.
French officials have confirmed that both France and the U.K. will likely pursue the joint development of a next-generation cruise and anti-ship missile.
With assembly complete, NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft, the centerpiece for an asteroid sample return mission, will undergo five months of environmental testing.
World View, the startup with plans for luxurious high-altitude passenger balloon excursions, has claimed a spot in the 2015 Neiman Marcus Christmas Book.
Huntington Ingalls Industries laid down the keel for the future DDG 117 USS Paul Ignatius earlier this month, formally beginning construction of the ship.
U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT approved $11.25b foreign military sale to Saudi Arabia of four modified Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships, equipped with weapon systems including eight MK. 41 vertical launchers, 532 tactical RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles, eight Harpoon Shipboard Launchers, 48 RGM-Harpoon Block II missiles, five MK-15 Mod 31 SeaRAM Close-in Weapon Systems and 188 RIM 116C Block II Rolling Airframe Missiles.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) into the U.S. aerospace sector reached a 6.3% compound annual growth rate in 2014, according to the U.S. Commerce Department. At the end of 2014, FDI into U.S. aerospace products and parts manufacturing industries totaled $22.5 billion, growing annually since 2008. The rate “outpaced the compound annual growth rate of FDI positions in transportation equipment manufacturing and even growth in FDI of all industries during the same period,” officials said.
If Canada’s next prime minister follows through on his party’s campaign pledge to reject the F-35, it will increase the cost to other buyers by about $1 million per aircraft.
South Korea will probably decide in early 2016 whether the proposed KF-X fighter will be equipped with the Eurojet EJ200 or General Electric F414 engine.
