NASA is close—perhaps within days—of striking a deal with Russia for the purchase of another seat on a Soyuz launch to assure a continuing U.S. presence aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
LYON, France—Arianespace is planning on resuming operations with a Vega launch in mid-June as activity at Europe’s space center in Kourou, French Guiana, gradually restarts after being suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The largest aerostructures provider to Airbus, Boeing and other aircraft makers will lay off around 1,450 more workers at its Wichita headquarters campus.
NASA has awarded Aerojet Rocketdyne a $1.8 billion contract to manufacture 18 additional RS-25 engines to support Space Launch System flights to the Moon.
As the Pentagon continues to invest in equipment to combat the novel coronavirus, the agency awarded a $75.5 million contract to Puritan Medical Products to double its monthly output of 20 million to 40 million swabs to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
SpaceX completed the 27th and final test of its Mk 3 parachutes on May 1, one of the final milestones before NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley are cleared for a flight test aboard a Crew Dragon capsule.
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity conducted the first unpowered gliding test flight from Spaceport America on May 1, marking another key step toward the planned start of commercial suborbital services from the New Mexico site.
Embraer’s commercial operation has shifted focus to realign with the rest of the company and conserving cash, with new-product development—including a notional turboprop—put on hold while the business regains its footing amid the Boeing deal collapse and coronavirus crisis, Embraer Commercial Aviation president and CEO John Slattery said.
An early leader in the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing market, Joby Aviation has been secretive about its progress. But new details emerged during the virtual kickoff event of the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime program on April 27-May 1.
The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold an in-person nomination hearing May 7 for the U.S. Air Force chief of staff, Navy secretary and deputy under secretary of defense for policy, despite the novel coronavirus.
The European Commission (EC) has published an amended regulation that lays out requirements to equip aircraft for automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) and postpones the compliance date for new aircraft by six months because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The proposed Foreign Military Sales revealed by the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency reveal two radically different packages for the Bell AH-1Z or Boeing AH-64E Apache.
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The Pentagon is employing new ways to track and funnel dollars to small- and medium-sized aviation suppliers hit hard by a drop-off in their commercial business since the novel coronavirus took hold.
The U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin have conducted the third successful flight test of the Precision Strike Missile (PRSM), intended to replace the Army Tactical Missile (ATACMS), with the first prototypes slated to enter the field in 2023.
Boeing on April 30 filed regulatory notice that it could raise an undetermined amount of new debt financing through newly issued bonds, coming a day after the company’s chief executive outlined a grim outlook, albeit better than feared by the marketplace.
Teams led by Blue Origin, Dynetics and SpaceX will receive nearly $1 billion in NASA funding to hone designs and development plans for lunar landing systems to carry a pair of U.S. astronauts to the Moon’s surface in 2024, a time frame the agency is sticking with despite economic and social upheavals caused by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic.
