“I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. I commit to doing better,” Austin said in a Jan. 6 statement.
The transformation of a former Delta Air Lines MD-90 into the NASA X-66A has begun at Boeing's Palmdale facility ahead of flight tests planned for 2028.
The UAE's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center will provide the airlock for the NASA-led, lunar-orbiting Gateway space base, under an agreement announced on Jan. 7.
The agency has a third contract with Axiom Space under a $140 million agreement reached in February 2020 to assemble an initial commercial ISS successor.
Denmark will explore whether its planned 27-strong fleet of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters should be expanded as it seeks to bolster defense.
Crane has acquired Vian Enterprises, a supplier of aerospace oil lubrication systems including pumps, valves, fluid regulators and gerotors, for $103 million.
Arlington Capital Partners says it is consolidating and rebranding its businesses focused on manufacturing precision aerospace and defense engine components.
Atlanta-based high-speed system developer Hermeus has completed ground tests of its first fully integrated Quarterhorse “dynamic iron bird” evaluation vehicle.
The Indonesian defense and finance ministries have decided to delay the acquisition of 12 Qatari Dassault Mirage 2000-5s due to “limited fiscal capacity.”
