Raytheon has completed a second and last flight test of the DARPA-funded Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, flying Northrop Grumman’s scramjet-powered demonstrator more than 300 nm at 60,000 ft.
NASA is close to selecting a launch period for Artemis I, the initial test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back to Earth, an agency official says.
The Senate Armed Services Committee has filed its version of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill, which authorizes $847 billion for national security programs at the Pentagon and Energy Department.
The engine-maker says it has performed the world’s first test in simulated altitude conditions of a megawatt-class and multi-kilovolt hybrid-electric propulsion system.
Rolls-Royce engineers have used digital tools and rapid manufacturing techniques to develop an entirely new turbofan engine concept from scratch in just 18 months.
The Space Development Agency has awarded two prototype contracts worth about $1.32 billion in total to teams led by L3Harris Technologies and Northrop Grumman Strategic Space Systems for 28 Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellites.
The U.S. Air Force is exploring having just one pilot fly its newest tanker in a move Air Mobility Command says could be needed to operate with more agility in war.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is dropping helicopter operations from its plan to recover the Vulcan rocket’s BE-4 engines for reuse, Aerospace DAILY has learned.
The U.S. Air Force is working to shift internal Pentagon thinking on selling advanced air-to-air weapons to allies, saying the worry needs to be what is the risk if other nations do not have the missiles, not what is the risk if they do.
Kuwait’s Air Force is steadily building its Eurofighter experience as it advances its government-to-government procurement of the combat aircraft with Italy.
