A report commissioned by the Norwegian government recommends Norway should be a driving force in the development, testing and early implementation of electrified aircraft.
As the U.S. Defense Department’s Project Pele nears contract awards to develop a deployable nuclear reactor design, defense officials have revealed a separate project now underway to demonstrate a commercially developed 2MWe (megawatt electrical) nuclear reactor on a U.S. military installation by 2027.
A independent team that analyzed software errors during the debut flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner recommended 61 actions that Boeing and NASA should take before the capsule flies again.
Australia will sell up to 46 Boeing F/A-18A/B Hornet fighters to red-air operator Air USA for U.S. Air Force training, Defense Industry Minister Melissa Price said, although only 38 aircraft appear to be available for the deal.
Japan has decided to work mainly with U.S. partners in developing its Next Generation Fighter, with only limited technical cooperation with Britain, the other contender, the Nikkei newspaper said.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has shelved a proposal to use the F-35 to shoot down ballistic missiles, and paused another study looking at firing lasers at missiles from unmanned aircraft systems, the agency’s director said March 4.
Aircraft manufacturers and suppliers widely expect the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis to result in a short, sharp shock to the air transport sector, but nothing disruptive yet to their business models, according to comments made during the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s 2020 Aviation Summit.
Ahead of flying its privately owned habitat to the International Space Station, Houston startup Axiom Space has signed a contract with SpaceX to ferry three fare-paying tourists and a professional commander to the station as early as June 2021.
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover was formally named “Perseverance” March 5, the winning entry in a contest that spawned 28,000 entries submitted from students in grades K through 12 from every U.S. state and territory.
The U.S. Defense Department plans to invest billions of dollars to begin mass-producing a new class of hypersonic missiles, a senior defense official said March 4.
Canada has taken up the mantle of leading an international effort to improve airspace safety over and near conflict zones, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said.
R&D company UAVOS has revealed an improved version of Saudi Arabia’s Saker-1 medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system developed with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return spacecraft descended to its lowest altitude yet over the asteroid Bennu earlier this week to gather high-resolution imagery of its primary sample collection site.
