The 235-ft. tall, triple-core booster was 7 sec. away from liftoff at 11:54 p.m. on Sept. 30 when the rocket’s Terminal Countdown Sequencer Rack, which controls the final 10 sec. of the countdown, identified “an unexpected condition,” and stopped the launch.
The Army ordered the Iron Dome systems in August 2019 to plug a gap in defenses against cruise missiles while it continues to shop for a permanent solution.
The U.S. State Department has approved potential sales of F/A-18 Super Hornets and F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to Switzerland after a narrowly won referendum enabled the country’s fighter procurement to proceed.
The financial impacts of COVID-19-related work delays have resulted in a one-year postponement in the launch of the Dragonfly astrobiology mission to Saturn’s intriguing moon Titan.
Paris is to create an urban air mobility test area, with the goal of showcasing air taxi operations during the 2024 Olympics if implementation is successful.
The UK has been marketing Airbus’ A400M airlifter to Kazakhstan as the Central Asian country looks to renew its transport fleet. A British Royal Air Force A400M visited the Kazakh capital, Astana, the UK embassy said Sept. 25 on social media.
The UK’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency MCA has extended its contract with helicopter operator Bristow for two more years as the agency paves the way for a follow-on agreement.
For the first time, the U.S. Air Force has conducted a flight test of the MQ-9A Reaper carrying eight live AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, which doubles the capacity that the unmanned aircraft was originally designed to hold.
Bell has completed a demonstration of its APT 70 unmanned cargo aircraft equipped with Xwing’s detect-and-avoid system under NASA’s Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the National Airspace System project.
A U.S. Marine Corps F-35B and KC-130J collided on September 29 during an air refueling attempt, causing the F-35B to crash and the KC-130J to make an emergency landing in a field, the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing said.
Any airframe that enters development will be built around the Autonomous Core System (ACS), which is being integrated by Leidos under a separate contract as the Skyborg Design Agent.
The U.S. Army is pleading with Congress to not cut funding for a next-generation seeker that will ultimately be used to guide missiles in the European and Pacific theaters, a service official says.
With a growing number of aircraft projects aiming for type certification under its revamped, performance-based Part 23 regulations, the FAA has expanded the list of industry-developed consensus standards that can be used to demonstrate compliance with the rules.
NASA has moved back the planned liftoff of the SpaceX Crew-1 mission—the first commercial operational launch of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS)—from Oct. 23 to Oct. 31.
The dueling accounts created international confusion over an alleged incident that Armenia previously had warned would trigger retaliatory strikes by Iskander ground-launched, medium-range missiles.
Citing budgetary concerns, Germany has canceled a long-running tender to find a replacement for its aging Sikorsky CH-53G Sea Stallion transport helicopters.
