Defense

By Mark Carreau
Made In Space, the Silicon Valley-based 3-D printing startup, has added a third feed stock to its additive manufacturing activities aboard the International Space Station.
Defense

By Jay Menon
India plans to launch a backup Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft in August to replace the ailing IRNSS-1A satellite, which has seen all three of its rubidium atomic clocks fail.
Defense

Qatar has taken up the option to buy 12 additional Dassault Rafale fighters announcing the deal at a event with the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, and HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani,from the Qatar Armed Forces
Defense

The UAE and Saudi Arabia have formed a new alliance on a wide range of key areas including defence, political institutions and the economy.
Defense

A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) utility helicopter was damaged when it developed a technical fault and crashed into a body of water in the north-east of the country on Thursday last week. By Oscar Nkala
Defense

By Tony Osborne, Jen DiMascio
Companies are transforming Air Tractor and Thrush agricultural aircraft into low-cost but bomb-heavy strike aircraft.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
President Trump has chartered a new National Space Council, and its chairman, the vice president, says America will go to the Moon, Mars and will lead in space.
Space

By Byron Callan
Textron’s Ellen Lord will likely be confirmed as undersecretary for acquisition, but the role is in flux.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Kratos Defense is calling on engine manufacturers to develop inexpensive, limited-life powerplants for a new generation of low-cost unmanned combat aircraft and cruise missiles.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Juno mission spacecraft carried out the closest approach ever to Jupiter’s turbulent Great Red Spot late July 10.
Defense

The total cost to procure Lockheed Martin’s F-35 has risen by nearly seven percentage points compared to last year, largely because the U.S. government opted to buy aircraft at a slower rate, according to the Pentagon’s most recent estimate.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas, Bradley Perrett
The company will not comment on specific prospects or national requirements, but the scheduled stops of the aircraft indicate where Airbus expects it has chances of making sales: Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, the Philippines and South Korea.
Defense

Service officials who led the recent Air Superiority 2030 study on future fighters say the next air superiority jet the Air Force buys will need to balance stealth against other attributes.
Defense

The U.S. government conducted a successful intercept July 11 with the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) missile defense system.
Defense

By Marhalim Abas
The Thai cabinet has approved the purchase of an additional eight Korean Aerospace (KAI) T-50 jet trainers that will supplement four ordered two years ago.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Vienna looks to remove controversial Eurofighters from service by 2020.
Defense

By Joe Anselmo
CEO says acquisition of B/E Aerospace will make Rockwell Collins a leader in smart airplanes and says company already is benefiting from a rebound in defense.
Connected Aerospace

In the search for the root cause of a recent spike in hypoxia-like cockpit incidents, the U.S. Navy is beginning to look more closely at the quality of the air that comes off the T-45 Goshawk’s engine and feeds into the oxygen generator system.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Combinations could be significant barriers to Martian organic activity and habitability, researchers’ findings show based on reviewing data back to 1970s.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Belgium’s short list for its future fighter has shrunk to three after the Swedish government withdrew Saab’s new-generation Gripen from the tender.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus and Veritas Capital Fund Management, the owners of StandardAero, have started negotiating a possible sale of maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) firm Vector Aerospace.
Defense

By Jay Menon
“Malabar-17 will be another milestone with the participation of 16 ships, two submarines and more than 95 aircraft,” an Indian defense ministry spokesman says.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
The British High Court has rejected claims by a campaign group that the British government was acting unlawfully by selling defense equipment to Saudi Arabia.
Defense

Autonomous drones are set to take over border patrols, crime hotspot monitoring and more, according to South Africa's Airborne Drones.
Aerospace

By Bradley Perrett
IHI Corp. has delivered a core demonstrator for a fighter engine that will be more than three times as powerful as any Japan has previously developed.
Aircraft & Propulsion