Space tourism company Virgin Galactic, which heralded a wave of space companies going public quickly, will restate its official 2020 financial results and has postponed its first-quarter results report to May 10.
The U.S. State Department has approved a Foreign Military Sales package worth an estimated $2.42 billion for six Boeing P-8I aircraft for the Indian Navy.
After two landings were waved off due to high winds, NASA has reset the undocking of the four SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon astronauts from the International Space Station for 8:35 p.m. EDT on May 1.
The Chinese Long March 4C successfully launched a new remote-sensing satellite—the Yaogan-34—from its Jiuquan spaceport on April 30, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. reported.
NASA will stop work on the Human Landing System flight demonstration while the Government Accountability Office considers two protests of the space agency’s recent $2.9 billion contract award to SpaceX.
With its fourth flight test on Mars, NASA is transitioning its Ingenuity technology demonstration project into an extended 30-day mission to develop and test operations for future science rotorcraft.
A slew of major U.S. defense acquisition programs have been found to not be survivable against relevant cyber threats, the Pentagon’s operational test community says.
Raytheon Technologies has confirmed the U.S. Marine Corps’ fleet of aging Boeing F/A-18C/Ds will become the first U.S.-operated fighters to carry active electronically scanned array radars featuring gallium-nitride semiconductors.
Australia’s Ministry of Defense (MOD) has confirmed interest in buying additional Boeing CH-47F helicopters a day after a surprise notification of such a deal by a U.S. agency.
Australia’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed interest in buying additional Boeing CH-47F helicopters a day after a surprise notification of such a deal by a U.S. agency.
The engine manufacturers developing the powerplant for the manned fighter component of the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) are to create a joint venture to develop the engine.
NASA and SpaceX late April 29 delayed for a second time the planned undocking and splashdown of the four Crew-1 Dragon astronauts from the International Space Station due to high winds.
Sweden is proposing to replace Finland’s F/A-18 Hornets on a virtual one-for-one basis by offering 64 Gripen fighters for Helsinki’s €9 billion ($10.9 billion) HX fighter requirement.
Northrop Grumman hit a proverbial home run with its first-quarter 2021, reporting outsized revenue and earnings, as well as providing a slightly higher forecast for the whole year.
Stratolaunch’s six-engine Roc carrier aircraft returned to the air on April 29, just more than two years after making its flight debut in 2019, with a 3-hr., 14-min. test sortie from the company’s Mojave Air & Space Port facility in California.
The U.S. Air Force has started canvassing industry for interest in reactivating the external hardpoints on the B-1B fleet, with integration of non-nuclear hypersonic missiles likely to follow.
Last month, PCX Aerosystems announced it was buying nearby Senior Aerospace Connecticut. This month, Greenbriar Equity Group announced it will buy PCX from RFE Investment Partners.
Australia could receive four new Boeing CH-47F helicopters transferred from the U.S. Army inventory under a Foreign Military Sale, the Defense Security and Cooperation Agency said on April 29.
With mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in aerospace and defense expected to ramp up this year in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, another private equity (PE) group is jumping into the market.
Even with the adverse impacts of the novel coronavirus on the airline industry, the U.S. Marine Corps is still losing the competition for pilots and maintainers.
