Orbital ATK engineers reported apparent success with a hot-fire test of the company’s Antares medium-lift launch vehicle fitted with a new Russian engine Tuesday.
The May 26 midair collision between two Super Hornets represents a rare occurrence for the F/A-18s, but the line of Hornets and Super Hornets has been involved in more incidents than any other U.S. Navy aircraft so far this fiscal decade, according to an Aviation Week analysis of data provided by the U.S. Navy Safety Center.
Analysis of the first noise trials in the Netherlands with the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter has found that the difference in noise levels between the F-35 and F-16 is perceived to be small.
The vast majority of the Moon’s water, a small but significant volatile stored primarily in the lunar interior, was delivered by impacts from asteroids rather than comets over a 200-million-year period that followed the Moon’s formation, an analysis shows.
Norwegian air accident investigators probing the fatal loss of an Airbus H225 helicopter are studying potential failures of the epicyclic module, suspension bar attachments and the conical housing in the main gearbox as possible causes of the accident.
India has delayed until June its plan to launch 22 satellites—a mission touted as a landmark step toward boosting the country’s potential in the global space business.
Italian aerospace and defense group Leonardo-Finmeccanica says it may reassess its future in India if it is blacklisted by the country’s ministry of defense over long-running claims of corruption in a VIP helicopter deal.
Latest phase of Office of Naval Research autonomous resupply program tackles challenges of wire detection, terrain classification and GPS-denied navigation.
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor in aerospace, power generation and specialty industrial companies, has acquired AC&A, a manufacturer of composite and metallic parts and tooling. The price was not disclosed.
Top U.S. officials seek to balance the use of government-made spy satellites with new commercial developments in imagery and intelligence collection and analysis.
Darpa’s new competition to build and fly the XS-1 experimental spaceplane requires bidders to submit a plan to transition the vehicle to a commercial business model.
Approval to begin the definition phase of the Future Fighter Capability program is scheduled for 2017, leading to a request for proposals in 2017-19 and contract award in 2018-20.
Italian investigators probing the fatal crash of the second prototype AgustaWestland AW609 commercial tiltrotor have reportedly impounded the third prototype, preventing it from being shipped to the U.S. for flight testing.
Researchers say data from a successful Mach 7.5 flight test will help designers of future hypersonic vehicles and weapons more accurately predict the behavior of the boundary layer, one of the great areas of uncertainty still remaining in the high-speed flight regime.
Flight tests of an extremely high frequency through-weather targeting sensor developed by Raytheon are planned for late this year under Darpa’s Video Synthetic Aperture Radar program
Flight decks of the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers are to be protected from damage by the exhaust from Lockheed Martin F-35Bs using a U.K.-developed metal coating.
Japan and Italy are partnering with NASA to fly three CubeSats beyond Earth orbit on the U.S. space agency’s inaugural flight of a new Space Launch System (SLS) in 2018.
The U.S. Navy successfully validated significant progression in the Fire Control Improvement Process (FCLIP) program through a live-fire test involving the Ship’s Self Defense System (SSDS) and Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Missile Weapons System at Point Mugu, California, Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) says.
