Defense

First flight of the spaceplane, named VSS Unity, is expected within days.

Ten months after achieving first flight of the CH-53K, Lockheed Martin-owned Sikorsky has delivered and flown all four aircraft required for developmental test.

Airbus Group and crowdsourced design specialist Local Motors have launched the second phase of a collaboration on cargo-delivery unmanned aircraft systems.

TransDigm Group is continuing its supply chain roll up and said Sept. 6 it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Young and Franklin and its subsidiaries, including Tactair Fluid Controls, for $260 million in cash.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $132.6 million contract to build a pair of KC-130Js Hercules tankers for the French air force.

Donald Trump said Sept. 7 that he wants to build a U.S. Air Force of at least 1,200 fighter aircraft.But there is a problem with Trump’s proposal.

NASA’s efforts to develop its Orion crewed spacecraft are following a course punctuated by safety, cost and schedule risks, the agency’s inspector general says.

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launched the country’s latest weather satellite, Insat-3DR, on Sept. 8.

U.S. Air Force’s top uniformed acquisition officer is trying to cut costs and maintain schedules during a major overhaul of top aircraft programs.

In this defense roundup, India’s Light Utility Helicopter, Spain’s first A400M fly, Poland may seek Patriots and a Predator B could get European certification.

Three International Space Station crewmembers returned safely to Earth late Sept. 6.

Almost two years after the DOD awarded Lockheed Martin the latest F-35 contract, the firm is still waiting on the funds needed to build the next fighter jets.

The Chilean air force (FACH) has chosen Sikorsky’s S-70i International Black Hawk to fulfill a requirement for a medium-lift helicopter.

“Poland’s formal request is an important milestone toward becoming the 6th NATO Patriot country and the 14th Patriot partner nation,” Raytheon’s integrated defense systems president Wes Kremer says.

China is developing a new-generation long-range bomber, air force commander Gen. Ma Xiaotian says.

The increased frequency of Iranian and North Korean space launch and ballistic missile tests is driving investment in Boeing’s silo-based interceptors.

Raytheon will cease production of the U.S. Navy’s first networked-enabled air-to-ground weapon in mid-2017 after seven years of assembly.

India successfully conducted the first flight of it homemade Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) on Sept. 6.

NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission rolled out atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket to Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral on Sept. 7.

India is preparing to launch an advanced meteorological sat this week, taking a step closer toward enhancing climate prediction and disaster warning tech.

Militaries around the Baltic are reconsidering defense plans, reversing years of cuts, as they view more powerful Russian armed forces with modernized weapons

Airbus Defense and Space has flown the first A400M for the Spanish air force.

NASA’s nine-year-old Dawn mission spacecraft began a spiraling, five-week climb above the dwarf planet Ceres on Sept. 2.

Aug. 17 marked the closing of another chapter in the life of the venerable McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, with the QF-4 full-scale aerial target drone completing its final unmanned mission over White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

The Turkish air force has disbanded three F-16 squadrons following their alleged involvement in the failed July 15 coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.