Defense

Despite ongoing strikes that have forced Arianespace to suspend launches indefinitely, a ViaSat executive says he is "confident we’ll have ViaSat-2 in service by the end of the year."

Money is one of the key reasons the U.S. needs a new military service dedicated to space, says Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.).

The story line behind the aerospace industry’s grand consolidation.

Germany’s battle of the heavy-lift helicopters, India to buy 100 Barak-1 missiles while it looks to replace the type, Malaysia not ready to commit to Dassault Rafale fighters, and Aero Vodochody gets back into the light fighter game.

Air Force not committing to F-15C EW upgrade; Chile to receive Black Hawks; Intel chief watching for new ASAT weapons, and Boeing to deliver C-17 to India.

Blue Origin and SpaceX's plans toward full operational reusability are not all that different.

Aurora Flight Sciences has decided to design and build an improved, military-grade version of its Orion long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft.

Hybrid Enterprises, Lockheed Martin’s reseller of its LMH-1 Hybrid Airship, has signed an agreement to transport bulk liquid helium from sites in Africa.

European missile manufacturer MBDA has carried out air carriage and jettison trials of the new Sea Venom anti-ship missile from a Lynx helicopter.

United Launch Alliance has dropped the price of its workhorse Atlas V rocket by about one-third and will continue to drive down costs amid mounting competition from SpaceX.

A single-seat Lockheed Martin F-16C assigned to the U.S.

A multinational team of researchers studying data from NASA’s Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) satellite believe they have identified two major warnings signs that together trigger destructive space weather events.

India’s state-run space agency has partnered with a local defense equipment maker to develop two spare Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft.

Malaysia appears to be finally making serious moves toward fulfilling a long-standing requirement for maritime patrollers.

L3 Technologies has joined the race to provide unmanned underwater technology to the U.S. Navy with the acquisition of OceanServer Technology for an undisclosed amount.

Boeing has created an “innovation cell” to seek out potentially disruptive technologies and business models, both externally and internally.

China’s space organizations are beginning to plan science missions beyond Mars, even as its engineers prepare to return samples from the Moon to Earth this year, and from Mars by 2030.

France's $1.2 billion plan to invest in French Guiana has been deemed insufficient by the protesters whose strikes have brought Arianespace launches at Kourou’s spaceport to a halt.

BlackSky Spectra is enlarging its network to include a fleet of additional Airbus satellites to make it “the largest network of high-resolution sensors accessible from an online catalog."

Introduction of Japan’s new airlifter into service is greatly boosting capacity, because the type is replacing the much smaller C-1. A proposed civil version has been dropped, however.

"Robust," "effective" and "versatile" are three words that come to our test pilot’s mind after two sorties in this new-generation counterinsurgency aircraft.

No matter how vital space power becomes to the U.S., if it is relegated to a supporting role inside the Air Force, or any other service or agency, it will always receive short shrift.

The milestone was 11 years in the making.

COLORADO SPRINGS—Igor Komarov, director general of Russia’s Roscosmos state space corporation, agrees with other non-U.S.

Several representatives of leading-edge aviation and commercial space companies marched to Capitol Hill on April 4 to try to catch up lawmakers on what is needed in the next FAA reauthorization measure—assuming Congress can provide it.