The U.S. Defense Department plans to initiate a launch services procurement this year for at least two “public-private partnerships” that would see the government and private companies share the cost.
The fiscal 2017 defense budget to be released on Feb. 9 will contain few surprises, and is unlikely to address a looming acquisition “bow wave” dominated by Air Force aircraft programs, according to analysts at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
Boeing’s more modest expectations for 2016 business and financial results upset Wall Street on Jan. 27, with traders knocking the OEM’s shares down almost 9% in the minutes before the regular close of New York stock markets.
Textron Aviation posted lower revenue but higher profit and business jet deliveries during the fourth quarter of 2015. For the full year, it posted higher revenue and profit.
The U.K.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will tighten regulations for air displays following the crash of a former military Hawker Hunter at the Shoreham air show last September that killed 11 people.
The French space agency CNES signed a letter of intent on Jan. 25 with the Indian Space Research Organization for French participation in what will be India’s second interplanetary space mission.
With the growing proliferation of missiles in the Asia-Pacific region, Adm. Harry Harris, the commander of Pacific Command, sees a possible need for increased ballistic missile defense (BMD).
Airbus Group’s tie-up with Uber to test-market extending ridehailing services to include helicopter flights has stumbled after local opposition prompted the speedy halt of a pilot project at the Sundance Film Festival, but further trials are planned this year.
Two years after the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter failed to make its planned international debut in the U.K., the U.S. Marine Corps has pledged to get the new fighter to a pair of U.K. air shows this summer.
Federal services provider Leidos will pay lead Pentagon contractor Lockheed Martin about $1.8 billion to take the latter’s portfolio of federal information technology business, the companies announced Jan. 26.
Airbus Defense and Space and OneWeb Ltd. have announced the creation of OneWeb Satellites, a 50-50 joint venture that will build a new global communications system comprising hundreds of Internet satellites circling in low Earth orbit.
The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ RQ-21A Blackjack UAV received the official green light for operation earlier this month, marking a major milestone for the program, service officials say.
The space division of Airbus Defense and Space will report record sales for 2015, with orders for several telecommunications and Earth observation satellites, as well as 900 small spacecraft being developed for OneWeb Ltd.’s planned global-Internet constellation in low Earth orbit.
The U.S. Navy (USN) and U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) have some gaps to fill in the Asia-Pacific region when it comes to air operations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) says in a recent report.
A Russian company is set to assemble Airbus H135 twin-engine light helicopters in the Urals to support the growth of aeromedical evacuation helicopters.
Sixty days after Blue Origin achieved its first milestone vertical landing with the New Shepard suborbital launch vehicle, the company has repeated the feat with the same rocket.
French President Francois Hollande and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi say they have reached a political agreement on the sale, but negotiations on price continue
As part of SpaceX’s plan to develop a human-rated version of a Dragon crew capsule capable of precision-powered landings on the ground, the company has revealed the first images of propulsive hover tests.
