Private equity investor AE Industrial Partners (AEI) announced Sept. 3 that it has acquired Triman Industries, a provider of highly engineered products and services to the global military aftermarket.
The U.S. government has threatened to apply sanctions on international scientific organizations that collaborate with Iran on space launch vehicles less than a week after a failed test of a satellite launcher.
Kennedy Space Center will remain closed at least through Sept. 5 as slow-moving Hurricane Dorian grazes Florida’s eastern seaboard following its deadly pass by Grand Bahama and the Abacos Islands.
UES Inc., Dayton, Ohio, has been awarded a $90,300,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for molecular assessment sensing technologies.
SpaceX is investigating why its Starlink operations center failed to notice warnings of an increased risk of a collision between one of its low Earth orbiting websats and the European Space Agency Aeolus weather satellite.
The response to rising threats of U.S. sanctions on buyers of Russian arms swung between open defiance and quiet caution at the MAKS Air Show here on Aug. 27, as President Vladimir Putin formally cleared the Sukhoi Su-57 to enter the export market.
NASA's human exploration and science mission directorates are assessing a range of small-mission strategies to help prepare it for Mars at a brisker pace with high-value science missions at more affordable costs.
The Japanese defense ministry has proposed to launch Future Fighter development in the fiscal year beginning in April 2020, and said it should proceed even if a hoped-for international partnership cannot be arranged.
Private equity investor AE Industrial Partners (AEI) announced Sept. 3 that it has acquired Triman Industries, a provider of highly engineered products and services to the global military aftermarket.
The F-CK-1 is a twin-engine, light fighter designed and manufactured by the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) for the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF).
British Airways (BA) has taken a step toward powering its fleet with sustainable alternative jet fuel after its partner Velocys submitted an application to develop Europe’s first plant for turning household and commercial solid waste into liquid fuel.
The image revealed by the president is annotated, pointing out damage on the north side of the launch pad, support vehicles, a gantry service tower, mobile erector-launcher and trailer.
Airbus and the UK Defense Ministry have withdrawn the Eurofighter Typhoon from Canada’s fighter contest, citing the cost of security concerns and the softening of Ottawa’s industrial technological benefits policies.
The 60,000-ton ship departed the UK on Aug. 30 bound for the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. where British and U.S. Marine Corps F-35Bs are expected to embark on the ship in late September.
As part of a campaign of experiments to evaluate directed-energy weapons for airbase defense, precision attack and aircraft defense, the U.S. Air Force is seeking information on systems that could shoot down cruise missiles.
Aerospace and defense training leader CAE will form a joint venture with Directional Aviation Capital’s affiliate Volo Sicuro and take a 50% stake in simulator-based training company Simcom, the companies announced Aug. 29.
The DOD's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking to hire an ethicist as the military grapples with applying algorithms to real-world warfighting scenarios.
Tropical Storm Dorian is expected to become a Category 3 hurricane by late Aug. 30 and keep strengthening as it moves toward Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
India’s space agency is working with its French counterpart to develop and launch a constellation of up to 10 sats for coastal security and maritime surveillance.
