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The unfolding revolution in the automotive industry is less about research than development—spotting and bringing together an array of externally sourced technologies.
Sixteen of San Francisco-based Planet Labs’ latest Dove CubeSats completed a three-day deployment cycle from the International Space Station late June 1.
Lockheed Martin is standing up its final assembly and support facility for the T-50A advanced trainer in Greenville, South Carolina, as the aircraft enters flight testing in South Korea ahead of the U.S. Air Force’s T-X competition, expected to get underway late this year or early next.
The Russian state corporation for space activities, Roscosmos, has pushed back the launch date for the next three-person International Space Station (ISS) crew from June 24 to July 7 to further check out a flight control system issue that could disrupt docking operations, the TASS news agency says.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has called for a grounding of all European-registered H225/EC225 helicopters after Norwegian investigators found evidence of metal fatigue in a gearbox component from the aircraft that crashed in Norway in April.
The U.S. Army launched the in-development Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) from a General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft system (UAS) on May 25, hitting a moving truck target.
U.S. Naval Air Systems Command (Navair) plans to review ScanEagle contract pricing in the wake of a Pentagon Inspector General (IG) investigation into program transactions.
Airbus Defense and Space is providing systems engineering support to Astrobotic, a Pittsburgh-based startup that is competing in the Google Lunar X Prize contest to deliver a rover to the Moon’s surface by the end of 2017.
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Sikorsky’s entry into DARPA’s VTOL X-Plane competition may not have been selected, but the company sees missions for an unmanned aircraft that can operate from small-deck warships with high speed and long range.
The Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Navy sailors aboard destroyer DDG 70 USS Hopper successfully conducted two developmental flight tests of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB Threat Upgrade guided missile on May 25-26 off the west coast of Hawaii, the Navy says.
The search for cheaper and quicker ways to bring fly-by-wire benefits to helicopters has taken a step forward with the development of a flight-control upgrade for the Boeing Chinook.
Indonesia is overhauling and upgrading its Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker series fighters, even as a long-expected order for additional aircraft appears to be on hold.
