Startup Jetoptera is to compare the noise generated by its fluidic propulsion technology with that produced by conventional propulsors used on unmanned and mobility air vehicles under a contract from the U.S. Air Force.
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps released a new plan rounding up the services’ various aircraft, surface, and undersea unmanned systems efforts, but missed an opportunity to provide Congress and other stakeholders with details on the way ahead and other unanswered questions, analysts say.
Against a background of U.S. government opposition to using small drones produced in China, Texas-based Windhover Labs has unveiled a domestically developed flight computer designed to make it easier to develop and certify drones in the U.S.
In the ongoing thorny negotiations with Dassault Aviation on the Future Combat Air System program, Airbus appears to be willing to make concessions in governance, intellectual property and work sharing for the program to remain on track.
In an era of likely declining or stagnate defense budgets, the U.S. Army believes it is a “false choice” to choose between its vertical lift modernization efforts, although a service official acknowledged the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft is the top priority.
High-rate composites manufacturing technology for the aerospace, automotive and air mobility industries is at the heart of a £90 million ($125 million) UK government-industry investment in five research and development projects.
The FAA has renewed two launch operator licenses for Northrop Grumman for its aircraft-launched Pegasus rocket system from Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, and Cape Canaveral, the agency said March 17.
Aerovel is to begin ramping up production of the Flexrotor vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft system after securing $2.5 million in Series B capital.
Though the Martian surface is now cold and dry, imagery dating back to the 1960s reveals a planet where large amounts of water once flowed and pooled, perhaps contributing to an environment amenable to life.
SpaceX continues to expand the operational envelope of its Falcon 9 fleet, with a successful ninth launch and landing of a first-stage booster, setting the stage to meet its goal of 10 launches per rocket with minimal refurbishment between flights.
Gen. Glen VanHerck’s testimony, which was submitted to the Senate Armed Services Committee, adds another detail into the public domain about the U.S. intelligence community’s analysis of China’s nuclear modernization plans.
Maxar Technologies has selected European companies TTTech Aerospace and RUAG Space to provide the backbone of the fault-tolerant communications network for the foundational Power and Propulsion Element of NASA’s lunar-orbiting Gateway.
Relativity Space has secured its first contract with the Pentagon, through the Defense Innovation Unit, to provide responsive launch capability for the military.
The UK will tilt power projection towards the Indo-Pacific region in response to the growing threat posed by China, a review of the UK foreign and defense policy has outlined.
Eight Japanese companies are now working to design the nation’s F-X fighter: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Subaru, IHI, Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba, Fujitsu and NEC.
Airbus Helicopters is teaming with Draken Europe to bid in the tender for the British Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) upcoming second-generation search and rescue program known as UKSAR2G.
The UK Royal Air Force has used Storm Shadow cruise missiles launched from Eurofighter Typhoons during combat for the first time, striking insurgents in Iraq.
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei has endorsed his March 9 assignment to lift off aboard Russia’s Soyuz MS-18 on April 9 to help ensure a continuous U.S. presence aboard the International Space Station.
A mass attack by land-based ballistic missiles, air-launched cruise missiles and surface- and submarine-launched cruise missiles against Guam poses a significant defensive challenge for the U.S. military.
