Safran has successfully run one of its helicopter engines on 100% sustainable aviation fuel in a first step toward making the rotary-wing industry more environmentally sustainable.
Luxembourg-based Kleos Space, which aims to provide big-data analytics via space-based radio frequency reconnaissance satellites, said it raised Australian $12.6 million ($9.3 million) by way of a stock sale.
The U.S. Navy’s top uniformed leader is not satisfied with how quickly his service is developing unmanned capabilities and has ordered the creation of a new task force over the next few months to find ways to accelerate.
The continued research and development for a possible F-35 engine replacement is needed, even without a commitment to replace the current F135 powerplant, so the U.S. Air Force can keep the option open and the technology evolving, the top service general said Sept. 8.
Germany’s Becker Avionics and drone detect-and-avoid system developer Iris Automation have entered into an agreement to jointly develop a collision avoidance system for general aviation aircraft.
OneWeb’s emerging low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation will pair with AT&T’s terrestrial broadband fiber network to expand connectivity for AT&T business customers, particularly in harder-to-reach locations on Earth, the companies announced Sept. 8.
New Delhi finally approved the procurement of the Spanish-developed airlifter some six years after the aircraft was selected as a replacement for the Indian Air Force’s Hawker Siddeley HS 748 fleet.
The move follows Aerion's disclosure in May that it was shutting down operations after failing to secure the large new capital requirements needed to continue to develop the AS2 supersonic business jet
The proposal based on the Defiant X concept offers a “low-risk, transformational capability that delivers on an Army critical modernization priority,” according to a joint statement released by the companies.
GE said Sept. 7 that it has begun tests of a second, full-scale, flight-weight XA100 three-stream adaptive combat engine, following evaluation of the first prototype earlier this year.
Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have joined several existing venture capital backers in a new $10 million fundraising round at on-orbit refueling and resupply startup Orbit Fab, the San Francisco company announced Sept. 7.
TransDigm Group is walking away from its preliminary $11 billion offer for Meggitt, leaving the latter to be acquired by Parker-Hannifin as agreed to in early August.
Communications & Power Industries, the space and defense technology roll up owned by Odyssey Investment Partners, will acquire Essco, which designs and manufactures specialty radomes and composite structures, from L3Harris Technologies.
A U.S. Air Force news release on Sept. 1 announced a puzzling claim: three Boeing F-15Es had released newly modified, 2,000-lb. GBU-31 Joint Direct Attack Munitions on moving ships.
Inspiration4, the first all-civilian astronaut crew to orbit the Earth, will be doing a lot more than gazing out the windows of their SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
South Korea has successfully test fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile from its newly commissioned diesel electric submarine, making it the first non-nuclear state to possess such a capability.
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a full-scale demonstrator concept that would use active flow control technology.
As NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission team worked to verify the successful collection of the large rover’s first sample of rock from the red planet, the rover’s companion Ingenuity helicopter drone took flight over the Labor Day weekend for the 13th time.
