The Pentagon has unilaterally issued a $6 billion F-35 contract to Lockheed Martin without first securing a mutual agreement, signaling ongoing discord.
The U.S. Navy’s fifth Mobile User Objective System satellite has been maneuvered into a “roughly geosynchronous” orbit with enough fuel remaining to “keep us in an operational condition,” a Navy official says.
A U.S. Air Force KC-10 tanker from the 60th Air Mobility Wing lost its refueling boom during a Nov. 1 flight and was forced to make an emergency landing.
The European Space Agency and the European Commission last week issued a first-of-its-kind joint statement on a shared vision for Europe in space, drawing praise from the industry.
A two-decade-old remote sensing technology used by the U.S. military to detect harmful airborne pathogens and toxins may find new life seeking organic biosignatures in the atmosphere and on the surface of Mars and other planetary science destinations.
India has postponed the launch of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation communications satellite, which had been scheduled for later this year, a space scientist says.
New modeling of the Earth-Moon system attempts to further explain the explosive nature of the lunar formation and the complex interactions between the battered Earth, its offspring and the Sun that followed.
Turkey has committed to purchase an additional 24 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, one of the largest single orders for the aircraft placed by a foreign country.
The Pentagon expects the number of deployed U.S. nuclear warheads to rise by the next State Department reporting period in March as more of its nuclear delivery vehicles—bombers, submarines and missiles—come out of maintenance.
Boeing’s ordnance shop in St. Charles, Missouri, is set to continue producing the U.S. military’s largest non-nuclear bomb, the 30,000-lb. GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP).
Repaired U.S. Air Force F-35As are beginning to fly again after the discovery of faulty insulation inside the fuel tanks grounded 15 operational jets in September.
The FAA has extended through October 2018 its ban on U.S. air carriers from operating in and flying over a large region of eastern and southern Ukraine.
The U.S. Air Force has kicked off a scientific advisory board study that will begin identifying key capabilities needed to fight in the battlespace of 2030.
Avic is presenting its new Cloud Shadow jet and a greatly expanded development of its Wing Loong propeller-driven series at the show, while China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC) is displaying the CH-5, a jet-propelled follow-on to its established CH-4.
Air Force Materiel Command still has concerns about the quality of Northrop’s maintenance work on the aging J-Stars jets and may need to expand safety inspections to the entire fleet.
The surface-to-surface Atacms weapon will be adapted for strikes on vessels up to 186 mi. (300 km) off the coast, providing the U.S. Army with its first coastal defense weapon in decades.
