The celebration of the 60th anniversary of Yury Gagarin’s first orbital flight sparked a new discussion in Russia about its space exploration priorities.
The U.S. Army has announced that a regiment located in Ansbach, Germany, will be the first unit to field and test the Mobile-Short Range Air Defense System that is designed to protect soldiers from unmanned aircraft systems, rotary-wing and fixed-wing threats.
The SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts experienced several minutes of unexpected suspense as they prepared for a scheduled 8-hr. sleep period following their 5:49 a.m. EDT liftoff on April 23 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center due to the potential close approach of a space debris fragment.
A U.S. military version of Logos Technologies’ BlackKite ultralight wide-area motion imaging sensor has completed two weeks of flight testing on the Insitu RQ-21A Blackjack small tactical unmanned aircraft.
Two senior House Democrats are threatening to not support inserting additional F-35s over the base budget request in fiscal 2022 because of a laundry list of problems, including a large backlog the program is facing at the depots.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has resumed flights with its Lockheed Martin F-35s a day after a temporary grounding prompted by concerns over engine wear.
The Pentagon has directed a “strategic pause” on transitioning the F-35’s autonomic logistics information system to a new, cloud-based network because of funding cuts.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center an hour before dawn on April 23, sending a Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts on a one-day journey to the International Space Station (ISS.)
A four-year research project to develop a cheaper method of producing sustainable aviation fuel from agricultural and forestry residues has kicked off in Europe.
Zero-emissions propulsion startup Universal Hydrogen has raised $20.5 million in Series A funding from investors including the venture arms of Airbus, JetBlue Airways and Toyota.
The first MH-60R helicopter for the Indian Navy flew for the first time in Owego, New York, where Sikorsky is producing the aircraft, U.S. Naval Air Systems Command said in a tweet.
Turkey’s Roketsan has developed a new glide bomb to be used with the Baykar Makina’s Akinci twin-engine medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system.
Satellite manufacturer Airbus Defense and Space has committed to one launch and an undisclosed number of optional launches with Isar Aerospace’s Spectrum micro-launcher.
Bye Aerospace has launched development of the eFlyer 800, an eight-seat, all-electric competitor to Textron Aviation’s Beechcraft King Air 260 turboprop.
UK startup Satellite Vu has raised £3.6 million ($5 million) in seed funding to begin building a thermal-imaging satellite constellation that will be able to measure the energy efficiency of any building in the world from low Earth orbit.
Celebrated as the first person to sequence DNA in space, NASA astronaut Kate Rubins returned from her second voyage to the International Space Station (ISS) April 17 having helped to advance the far-reaching technology and eager to see it become part of future human expeditions to the Moon and Mars.
