Defense and Space

A two-decade trend of failed X-plane projects at the agency appears to be reversing, with a recent switch to a scaled-down approach producing results.

O2 AERO ACQUISITIONS (Aerox Aviation Oxygen Systems) acquired FLUID POWER, OH (military aircraft O2 systems).

Poland has signed contracts with European and U.S. companies to further strengthen the country’s air defenses.

The proposed Skunk Works tool—an F-35-mounted autonomous processing node—connect to the less-intelligent CCAs during a mission.

Spire Global has won a $4.6 million, 12-month NASA contract to develop a microwave sounder device for the NOAA Near-Earth Orbit Network satellite constellation.

The adoption of the Dominator XP, made by Israeli company Aeronautics, marks the Royal Thai Air Force's first medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) UAS.

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With over 50 years of experience and industry-leading engineering teams, Collins also credits next-gen electric technology to its strategic partnerships.

The UK Royal Air Force says personnel are now undertaking the first instructor operating course on Protector simulators at General Atomics’ facility in the U.S.

The 65,000-ton HMS Prince of Wales is set to embark several Lockheed Martin F-35s later this month for the third round of development testing with the aircraft.

Images of two Yakovlev Yak-130 advanced jet trainers being flight tested in Isfahan, Iran, and wearing Iranian Air Force colors were published online on Sept. 2.

First launch of Europe's new workhorse Ariane 6 is finally coming into view.

Reznikov leaves the role having secured the transfer of billions of dollars of military equipment and weaponry to Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion.

The Space Development Agency said the launch manifest included Transport satcoms from Lockheed Martin Space and York Space Systems, and a SpaceX Tracking sat.

Aditya-L1 blasted off from India's Satish Dhawan Space Center on Sept. 2 onboard the PSLV-C57 rocket, carrying seven domestically developed payloads.

The crew splashed down in darkness at 12:17 a.m. EDT and were joined 30 min. later by a SpaceX recovery vessel with NASA staffers and medical personnel.

NASA’s Crew-6 mission astronauts and cosmonaut are set to splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean waters off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., ending a 186-day mission.

Intuitive Machines plans to raise $20 million from a sale of its stock and warrants to an undisclosed institutional investor.

The U.S. Air Force wants to kick off its program to replace its aging Boeing KC-135s this month with a request for information.

The timeline for the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft to return from the International Space Station has been revised.

Marwan Lahoud, a former Airbus senior executive, has been appointed chairman of France’s Higher Institute of Aeronautics and Space, known as ISAE-Supaero.

A consortium of German companies has been contracted to begin building the IT platform that is expected to produce the AI systems for the European FCAS.

Ukraine has now fielded a long-range weapon capable of striking targets hundreds of miles deep into Russian territory.

Hensoldt plans to combine ERA's Vera-NG with its own Twinvis passive radar technology for use by the German Air Force.

On its third flight, Firefly will attempt to integrate a payload and launch a rocket within 24 hr.