U.S. startup Astra Space has emerged from stealth mode and identified itself as the sole remaining competitor in DARPA’s Launch Challenge to increase the flexibility and pace of flights into low Earth orbit.
U.S. Special Operations Command has revived the Defense Department’s on-again, off-again pursuit of a light attack aircraft fleet by announcing plans to acquire a new fleet of manned aircraft to perform the “armed overwatch” mission.
Air navigation service provider Naviair will establish a remote tower center at Billund Airport (BLL), Denmark’s second largest airport, to manage surrounding air traffic and ultimately provide central air traffic control for other regional airports.
The New Zealand government has signed a memorandum of understanding with urban air mobility startup Wisk to conduct a “world-first” passenger transport trial using its Cora electric self-flying air taxi.
Leidos, a giant provider of technology and services to U.S. government agencies, is buying two airport security and services units from L3Harris Technologies for $1 billion.
Solar research by NASA’s Heliophysics Division, NOAA and the National Science Foundation have been slowed by budgets that fail to keep pace with inflation, according to a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.
The €3.6 billion ($4 billion) final agreements that Airbus has reached with French, UK and U.S. authorities to resolve a corruption case, although colossal, are in fact a satisfactory outcome for the company.
Germany has terminated plans to develop a signals intelligence platform based on Northrop Grumman’s MQ-4 Triton high-altitude, long-endurance platform.
The FAA has proposed amending its certification procedures so that it can issue design approvals for some unmanned aircraft systems as a “special class” of aircraft.
The U.S. Navy has moved to greatly expand the role of P-8A maritime patrol aircraft by proposing to integrate several new types of missiles, bombs, mines and advanced decoys.
The government of Ghana has been drawn into the controversy surrounding the Airbus bribery probe after it emerged that payments were made to secure the sale of C295 turboprop airlifters to the African republic’s military.
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) says its commercial aftermarket business is being hit by ramifications from the Boeing 737 MAX grounding and could see additional headwinds linked to the coronavirus outbreak, but executives are confident that any dip will be short-lived.
The Finnish ministry of defense says all five of the contenders in its contest to find a next-generation fighter have responded to a revised request for quotation asked for by Helsinki.
