Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force is giving the public new peeks at its secretive B-21 Raider bomber.

Three of NASA’s four Crew-6 astronauts who recently returned from the International Space Station expressed satisfaction with their contributions.

The project is dubbed the Enhanced Collaborative High-Frequency Orientation System (ECHOS).

Collins Aerospace has begun manufacturing a 1-megawatt electric generator for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory.

BAE Systems and L3Harris Technologies has delivered the first EC-37B Compass Call aircraft to the U.S. Air Force for developmental and operational testing.

The challenges include establishing a sustained human presence at the Moon to prepare for human expeditions to Mars and introducing commercial space stations.

Lockheed Martin is proposing the assembly of the S-70M Black Hawk in the UK as part of its bid to secure the country’s New Medium Helicopter requirement.

SpaceX’s Starlink broadband constellation is seen as a major driver in that growth.

Estonia and Latvia are to jointly purchase the Diehl IRIS-T SLM medium-range, ground-based air defense system.

Satellite constellation projects are materializing, creating a need for launches, especially to low Earth orbit.

The creation of the independent council follows last year’s announcement of a strategic partnership with Northrop Grumman.

The latest edition of the world-class Dubai Airshow will gather leaders from across the sector to drive transformative change.

In August, 1952, Aviation Week provided the first details on the new Boeing B-52 bomber.

An image released by the Israeli Air Force shows only the midbody section of the new Spark UAV where a high-wing attaches to the fuselage

After a year’s delay to resolve software issues, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is poised to explore a namesake asteroid.

The Rapid Experimental Missonized Autonomy (REMA) program, worth a total of $25 million spread across multiple anticipated awards, kicked off on Sept. 11.

The powdered metal issues plaguing Pratt & Whitney’s geared turbofan engines have not affected the company’s largest military engine programs.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall on Sept. 11 used what is typically his largest stage.

Telesat signed a 14-flight contract with SpaceX to deploy its Lightspeed broadband satellite constellation, the companies said Sept. 11.

“The Air and Space Forces must change, or we’ll fail to prevent, or lose, a war,” U.S. Air Force SecretaryKendall says.

The company is demonstrating the platform at its Littleton, Colorado, campus.

GEOST says its Starlite protective system will be integrated into the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tracking Layer Tranche 1 satellites.

To get there, AMC boss Gen. Mike Minihan says he is in the short term looking at year’s-end funding changes.

The program, known as Silent Barker, consists of at least two launches, each with multiple payloads.

SpaceX says it has completed 57 corrective actions required by the FAA prior to a second flight test of the Starship Super Heavy launch system.