The U.S. Air Force is moving to a new parts management tool that the vendor, Needham, Massachusetts-based PTC, says could drive down parts inventory costs by 10-20% and improve aircraft readiness rates by 5-10%.
Systems integrator Jagid Management has teamed with Astronautics Corporation of America to build a roll-on, roll-off “flying LTE tower” that will allow police and military customers to pass ISR data over broadband links.
UK-based startup Sky and Space Global has signed agreements to build, launch and replenish a constellation of around 200 nanosats to provide low-cost communications to equatorial regions.
With the introduction of a new glass cockpit, the Super Mushshak has been unleashed with a new lease of life. As a result, the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) Kamra, which builds the primary trainer, has won contracts with the air forces of Qatar and now Nigeria. Alan Warnes reports.
The Northrop Grumman RQ-4B has begun one of the most important flight test campaigns in its 19-year history, validating compatibility with the UTC Aerospace Systems MS-177 long-range multispectral sensor.
Terrestrial rather than space-based observatories might hasten advanced warnings of solar disruptions that discharge high-velocity solar energetic particles into space that could pose a health threat to astronauts, a study says.
NASA scientists are preparing advanced plant growth hardware for delivery to the U.S. segment of the International Space Station later this month as part of a modest greenhouse.
Sikorsky has delivered a S-70i International Black Hawk to Turkish defense electronics firm Aselsan in the first phase of the Turkish Utility Helicopter Program.
A first-stage engine issue discovered during a prelaunch inspection of United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Medium+ rocket has set back the launch of the ninth and penultimate U.S. Air Force Wideband Global Satcom spacecraft.
Strapped for cash to buy Boeing’s new KC-46 tanker in sufficient numbers, the U.S. Air Force is looking instead to outfit its 60-year-old KC-135 Stratotanker.
New photos of the still classified U.S. Air Force’s Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle have emerged from Vandenberg AFB, California.
