“It’s truly a critical moment in the development of the space economy and a new era of private human spaceflight,” NASDAQ’s president and CEO said just before the astronauts rang the bell in the station’s U.S. segment.
Leonardo says it has completed flight testing for the latest phase enhancement upgrade for the Eurofighter Typhoon, paving the way for the delivery of active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar-equipped aircraft to Kuwait.
The light aircraft manufacturer has prioritized development of large cargo UAVs because of increasing indications that the entry into service of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis could slip to 2028.
When discussing the U.S. Air Force's next C2 architecture, the temptation is to focus on the E-3 AWACS and E-8C J-Stars. Less attention is paid to the ground-based, and in many ways more powerful, corollaries of both aircraft.
“Things worked exactly the way we expected them to work," Demo-2 astronaut Doug Hurley said. " It’s a pretty awe-inspiring trip so far, pretty humbling,”
Cairo reportedly is looking to purchase 24 Eurofighters, 24 M-346 jet trainers, a satellite produced by Leonardo, and up to six FREMM frigates and offshore patrol vessels.
BAE says the successful firings at the U.S. Army’s Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona show the weapon can allow mounted and dismounted units to engage soft and lightly armored targets.
“I’m very confident that we’ll continue to fund NASA and fund NASA aggressively,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said shortly after SpaceX's Demo-2 mission successfully docked with the International Space Station.
Beta Technologies and Joby Aviation are the first developers of urban air mobility vehicles to progress to the third stage of the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program.
The 3:22 p.m. liftoff marked SpaceX’s first launch with people aboard and the first U.S. human orbital launch since the final STS-135 shuttle mission in July 2011.
A SpaceX Starship prototype exploded and was destroyed on a test stand in Boca Chica, Texas, on May 29, joining three previous company test vehicles lost during pressurization checks.
Aerospace and defense firm Cobham has snapped up the defense business of British composite manufacturer Tods Aerospace after it was placed into administration.
