Two northern hemisphere regions on Mars appear to offer the best prospects for hosting generous deposits of subsurface ice that could serve as a key resource for future human exploration of the red planet, findings from multiple planetary science missions show.
The founding executive of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the airline’s eye-catching corporate venture capital wing, has moved over to take a leadership role at Joby Aviation, one of the fund’s most notable investments and a high-profile urban air mobility startup.
The B-21 Training Systems Innovation Challenge launched on February 1 by the Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) and Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) includes two phases.
A just-completed European research program has advanced technology for structural batteries and supercapacitors that could eventually reduce the safety risks in storing massive amounts of energy onboard electrified aircraft.
The top officers in the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps recently reinvigorated debate surrounding military readiness and recommended adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to the mix of existing metrics.
OHB System has filed a lawsuit with the Court of Justice of the European Union against the European Commission’s decision to exclude the company from a program creating the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites.
NASA has struck agreements with General Electric and Honeywell to develop technologies for small-core turbine engines that burn less fuel and produce more power than current turbofans powering commercial aircraft.
A “special notice” published on Feb. 2 by the Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions Project Office defines a plan to stage of shoot-off of candidate designs in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
Firefly Aerospace has won a $93.3 million NASA task order to provide 10 science and technology payloads in 2023 to help the space agency prepare for human missions to the Moon.
The corporate team demonstrated a prototype form of a sonobuoy dispenser last October to show-off a potential anti-submarine warfare role for the U.S. Navy’s long-endurance, unmanned helicopter.
Times have changed dramatically since the inception of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that has served to prevent military conflict in space, participants in a forum on the treaty say.
A software framework developed by NASA to ensure autonomous aircraft follow programmed rules of behavior has been delivered to several other agencies for potential application to a range of aircraft, military and civil.
U.S. President Joe Biden announced a broad series of actions that impact national security and foreign policy on Feb. 4, which include reviewing the military’s global force posture and freezing troop withdrawals from Germany.
Israel plans to conduct simultaneous flights by multiple drones from different manufacturers in managed urban airspace under government-supported pilot programs to improve the country’s transportation options.
SpaceX on Feb. 4 launched its 18th mission to deliver Starlink broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, with another batch of 60 spacecraft poised for launch on Feb. 5.
Orbital Sidekick, a San Francisco-based startup aiming to offer satellite-based hyperspectral imaging and data analytics for the energy sector and others, has finalized operation plans for its Global Hyperspectral Observation Satellite (GHOSt) constellation that is set to launch this year on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Flight trials of General Atomics’ MQ-9B SkyGuardian medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system planned for the UK this summer will see the aircraft configured for maritime operations, the manufacturer has confirmed.
NASA will work with the space agencies of Italy, Canada and Japan to develop a plan for a possible Mars Ice Mapper mission to detect and assess the depth and dimensions of near-surface ice deposits.
A European Union-funded project is researching the use of urban air mobility for emergency medical services, with test flights in Finland, Germany and Norway planned for 2023.
