The U.S. Army awarded GENERAL ELECTRIC a $1.3 billion contract modification for T700 engine deliveries through 2024 for H-60 and AH-64 aircraft for the U.S. military, Foreign Military Sales and other government agencies.
Russia’s military gave U.S. nuclear weapon inspectors a first, close-up look at the Avangard missile with the hypersonic glide vehicle over the last three days, according to state-owned wire service TASS.
Space tourists could lift off from a spaceport in the United Arab Emirates under an agreement between the pioneering commercial space operator and the UAE.
Russia’s JSC Rosoboronexport, a subsidiary of the state corporation Rostec, has begun marketing new-generation combat aircraft, according to Alexander Mikheev, director general.
A British startup has unveiled a one-fifth scale model of an innovative lunar lander in partnership with a Ukrainian manufacturer, and plans to test another vehicle in the UAE.
The U.S. Army awarded BOEING $10 million Foreign Military Sales contract to integrate and retrofit 24 AH-6i light attack helicopters with a digital video recorder and the laser-guided Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System for Saudi Arabia.
BAE Systems Technology Solutions & Services Inc., Rockville, Maryland, has been awarded a $104,775,349 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
The U.S. Navy has awarded contracts to the winners of four prize challenges for the Marine Air-Ground Task Force expeditionary unmanned aircraft system (MUX) for four individual mission payloads.
Insitu has developed a ScanEagle unmanned aircraft system with a satellite communications antenna for beyond-line-of-sight operations, the Boeing subsidiary says.
Turkish Aerospace has rolled out the first locally-assembled T-70 Black Hawk helicopter to be built under the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program (TUHP).
The program’s goal is to renew France’s capability in electromagnetic signal intelligence, notably the interception of voice radio communications and radar waves.
The NASA Orion capsule assigned to the first joint test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS), the uncrewed Artemis 1 mission, reached Ohio by air transport from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 24.
The next trend in sats is multiuse constellations, typically combining telecoms and Earth observation, says Guy Perez, sat manufacturer OHB chief tech officer and head of telecoms sats.
Designed to help a geostationary satellite reach its final orbit or deliver constellation spacecraft into more orbital planes, among other potential uses.
Canada’s Stratodynamics Aviation, which in September set a record by releasing an unmanned glider from a stratospheric balloon at 11,434 ft., is to conduct research flights for NASA under a contract awarded to the University of Kentucky.
House lawmakers are calling on the FAA to preserve airspace safety and efficiency as it develops a regulation to simplify launch and re-entry requirements for commercial space operators.
