As Osiris-Rex travels closer towards Bennu, the spacecraft’s suite of scientific instruments will gather imagery to generate global maps, contributing to an ongoing evaluation of where best to touch down briefly to gather a sample of soil and rock.
Germany’s Rheinland Air Service (RAS) has debuted its maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare conversion of the ATR-72 turboprop regional airliner for the first time here at the Paris Air Show, being held June 17-23.
Lockheed Martin’s top F-35 executive doubled down on a commitment to reduce the cost to operate the stealth aircraft each hour by 43% within six years.
Lockheed Martin has revamped a seven-year-old concept for a maritime patrol variant of the C-130 to refocus it as a mission kit that can be retrofitted on existing or new-build aircraft.
Boeing has revealed that the U.S. Navy MQ-25A Stingray carrier-based unmanned refueling tanker company-funded prototype will achieve first flight later this summer.
Raytheon has demoed the AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder in the surface-to-air missile role, launching the interceptor successfully during a test on May 9 in Norway.
The Airbus A400M Atlas is a medium-lift military cargo aircraft powered by four Europrop International (EPI) TP400-D6 engines. As of June 2019, 76 aircraft were in service across Europe and Asia.
India’s second Moon mission, Chan-drayaan-2, has been scheduled to launch July 15 on its attempt to touch down on the southern part of the lunar surface, which would make India the first country to do so, according to K. Sivan, chairman of the state-run Indian Space Research Organi-zation.
Following its strategy of developing its own eVTOL common reference models (eCRM) to help industry develop aircraft meeting the requirements for its Elevate aerial ridesharing service, Uber has produced its first air-taxi cabin design.
Honeywell and Triumph Group have partnered with eVTOL developer Jaunt Air Mobility as the startup has been named as the fifth vehicle partner for Uber’s Elevate aerial ridesharing program.
EmbraerX, the innovation arm of the Brazilian manufacturer, has refined the design of the eVTOL air taxi it is developing under its vehicle partnership with Uber Elevate.
Clocking in a year ahead and well below the previously stated goal of an $80m F-35A by LRIP Lot 14 should not have surprised anyone, a Lockheed Martin executive says.
“The missile was successfully launched,” a senior DRDO official said June 14. The aim of the mission was to “prove a number of critical technologies for futuristic missions.” However, he did not say whether the mission met the objectives.
The move, detailed by Thales on June 14 just days before the Paris Air Show, follows the decision by French armaments agency DGA to integrate the new avionics suite into the new Airbus H160M Guepard (Leopard) utility helicopter.
As well as re-baselining elements of the program, the amendment also partly lifts a heavy financial burden from Airbus’ shoulders that Airbus' previous CEO said resulted in the airframer taking on a “lopsided” share of the risk.
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The U.S. Air Force has conducted the first captive carry test flight of the DARPA-Air Force Research Laboratory-developed Tactical Boost Glide (TBG) hypersonic demonstrator.
