Four days after launching astronauts for a flight test of its commercial space taxi, SpaceX fired off another Falcon 9 rocket to resume building out its Starlink satellite network for high-speed internet service.
The awards create a pool of contractors now eligible to compete for a rolling series of task orders as the Air Force stages “on ramp” demonstrations for new Advanced Battle Management System technologies.
The U.S. arm of Japanese satellite servicing startup Astroscale is expanding into geostationary orbit by acquiring the assets of Israeli company Effective Space Solutions.
Several U.S. airlines are among 69 signatories of a letter supporting a stay, or halt, of an order granting Ligado Networks access to mobile satellite services bands for a ground-based 5G network.
A nearly year-long setback for the Tactical Boost Glide program will cause a similar delay for the U.S. Air Force’s AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.
After building 111 aircraft and conducting more than 25,000 flights, unmanned and manned, startup Kitty Hawk is winding down the Flyer project to develop a single-seat recreational electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
Arnold Aldrich, a 35-year NASA executive whose guidance touched U.S. human space exploration from Mercury through the space shuttle, died on May 28 in a Virginia hospital following a brief battle with cancer.
Airbus Helicopters has delivered its first helicopters using an electronic-delivery process negating the need for the customer to travel to collect the aircraft in light of the travel restrictions caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Known as the “impact origin of life hypothesis,” this process may have occurred elsewhere in the inner Solar System, including Mars and perhaps other planetary systems.
Bye Aerospace is approaching the critical design review for its eFlyer 2 two-seat electric training aircraft and has revealed plans to develop an all-electric six- to nine-seater in addition to the already announced four-seat eFlyer 4.
The approval, announced June 2, means that air forces now will be able to use the full capacity of the aircraft to drop up to 116 paratroopers from the paratroop doors.
Taxi testing has begun for the first prototype of Taiwan’s new advanced trainer, the Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) AT-5, ahead of a first flight planned for the second half of June.
The demonstration showed the potential targeting range of the 15-year-old weapon system, with one missile fired at a target 90 km (60 mi.) away and the second at a target 400 km away.
