Airbus Helicopters has begun airframe studies on the Tiger attack helicopter to assess whether the aircraft will need structural modifications to see out a 40-year operational life.
Britain’s Empire Test Pilots School (ETPS) is to receive a new fleet of turboprop trainers and single-engine light helicopters as it prepares to align its training regime with European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) regulations.
One of the most tightly choreographed joint human and robotic activities ever undertaken aboard the International Space Station, unfolding since New Year’s Eve, reaches a milestone on Jan. 6.
French aerospace industry lobbying group Gifas is worried that cuts in public research funding may jeopardize the leading position of French companies at a time when other European countries are maintaining their support to aerospace research.
In this week’s roundup: India’s nuclear-capable Agni-V ICBM heads to user trials; Serbia modernizes its helicopter and fighter fleet; upgrading the KC-10 tanker and another order for Patriot air defense.
One of eight medium-thrust engines fell off a U.S. Air Force B-52 heavy bomber from Minot AFB, North Dakota, in a Jan. 4 incident, the service confirmed to Aviation Week.
NASA is funding probes that will visit Trojan asteroids in Jupiter’s orbit around the Sun, and a unique main-belt asteroid that may be the surviving metallic core of a long-destroyed planet.
Boeing and SpaceX are now under contract for six crew flights each to the International Space Station, once NASA certifies their commercial crew vehicles for human spaceflight.
The days of launching intercontinental ballistic missiles from flying command posts in testing and nuclear war are here to stay, with the U.S. Air Force making provisions to link current and future “Doomsday Planes” with its next-generation missile, the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent.
It was 2010, and Lockheed Martin’s F-35 fighter was on the brink of collapse. But since then, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the program has been revived.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has selected Gilbert, Arizona-based Atlas Space Operations, Inc. for the installation of remote global satellite tracking stations for the Cosmic-2 network in support of future hurricane analysis and prediction.
The Airbus-built Sentinel-2B satellite, to be shipped this week to Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana for a March launch, will contribute to unprecedented optical imaging performance, the European Space Agency (ESA) says.
The U.S. Air Force’s six-year development of a guidance kit for the 1968-vintage B61 thermonuclear bomb has entered the final stretch, with qualification flight testing due to begin in March followed by a developmental test and an evaluation series in August.
The board of French space agency CNES earlier this month green-lighted its contribution to the Franco-Chinese Space-based Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM) mission to study gamma-ray bursts.
Indonesia has canceled a mysterious order for a Leonardo AW101 helicopter, with President Joko Widodo raising the possibility that the contract’s signing was improper.
The first U.S. mission to attempt the collection of a sample from an asteroid and return the material to Earth, NASA’s $1 billion Osiris Rex mission, is on a trajectory for a late September 2017 Earth flyby.
The European Space Agency (ESA) is reviewing its plans for the series of maneuvers that the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) will perform soon to circularize its orbit around Mars with minimum fuel consumption.
