NASA’s Mars 2020 robotic rover mission faces potential cost and technical challenges that could jeopardize efforts to meet a 20-day, midyear launch window, the agency’s IG says.
In an updated wish list sent to President Donald Trump’s transition team in January, the U.S. Air Force is asking for additional funding to study a potential low-cost, light-attack aircraft to fight Islamic State terrorists, along with money to buy more high-end F-35s.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is seeking proposals for a compact high-power laser to be used in the flight demonstration of a podded self-protection weapon that can be carried by supersonic fighters.
The South Korean defense ministry has decided to import the navy’s next batch of anti-submarine helicopters, rejecting a proposal to adapt the Korea Aerospace Industries Surion.
The U.S. Army plans to upgrade almost 200 MPQ-64 Sentinel short-range air defense radars to counter reduced-signature cruise missiles and small unmanned aircraft as well as short- and long-range rockets, artillery and mortar threats.
The first intercept test of the Raytheon Standard Missile-3 Block IIA off the coast of Hawaii has been delayed due to poor weather conditions, but will go ahead “in the near future,” the Missile Defense Agency says.
President Trump claimed early Jan. 30 that he has cut $600 million from the upcoming low-rate initial production lot 10, estimated to be about 90 aircraft.
A Japanese cargo mission freighter is conducting a demo of JAXA electrodynamic tether technology to help stem the rise of large pieces of orbital debris.
L3 Technologies said Jan. 25 that its executives in charge of strategy and development and the company’s Electronic Systems business unit will be changing, and that the latter will be reorganized.
Britain’s BAE Systems and Turkish Aerospace Industries have signed a long-awaited agreement in which the UK company will assist TAI in the development of an indigenous fighter.
India has successfully tested the indigenous cryogenic engine for the upper stage of its heaviest rocket, the GSLV Mk. 3, inching closer to boosting its capability to launch heavier satellites into orbit.
India’s space agency readjusted the orbit of its landmark Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) to avoid the spacecraft experiencing a long-duration eclipse of the Sun that would have drained its solar batteries.
The U.S. Air Force’s once-crowded $16 billion T-X trainer competition is beginning to look more and more like a price shootout between Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
While Lockheed Martin has proved it can successfully deliver aircraft from the production line, the company has yet to show it will have a reliable system in place to support the aircraft on “day two," Norwegian military officials say.
The new U.S. defense secretary has ordered a review of whether an advanced Super Hornet can provide a "competitive, cost-effective, fighter aircraft alternative" to the F-35.
