Mission managers scrubbed launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus commercial cargo vehicle carrying 7,300 lb. of supplies for the International Space Station for the third day in a row Saturday, setting another attempt for a 30-min. window that opens at 4:44 p.m. EST Sunday.
A Moroccan F-16 and a Saudi AH-64 Apache have been shot down while operating over Yemen yesterday. It is understood that the Moroccan Air Force pilot was killed but the two crew of the Saudi aircraft have been captured by rebel forces.
Weather forced a second delay Friday in United Launch Alliance’s effort to launch an Orbital ATK Cygnus spacecraft with a load of supplies for the International Space Station.
The fallout from Turkey’s shootdown of a Russian combat aircraft may have a wider and unexpected impact on the U.S.-led coalition air power arrayed against the militants of the self-proclaimed Islamic State/Daesh.
A constellation of satellite hosted payloads equipped with infrared sensors is being developed that could deliver almost-instantaneous warnings of wildfires, oil spills on dry land and other “thermal events” worldwide.
A demo showing that unmanned aircraft systems can be integrated into national airspace without the need for a major infrastructure program has been conducted by Lockheed Martin using its unmanned Kaman K-Max helicopter and fixed-wing Stalker XE.
Ever since the birth of the Aviation era at the turn of the 19th-century, the quest for sustainable propulsion has been a key drive. We sample the highlights.
Frank Whittle and Hans von Ohain were major contributors to the creation of gas turbine engine-powered aircraft and the world of airpower we know today.
If the U.S. is to maintain its technical advantage in aerospace and defense, it must move to actively integrate the technology and aerospace industries at the supply chain/service provider level.
Although the U.S. Air Force “remains committed” to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Secretary of the Air Force is not ruling out a potential slowdown in the production of the advanced fighter.
Rain and thick clouds over Cape Canaveral forced mission managers to delay the planned Dec. 3 launch of an Orbital ATK Cygnus commercial cargo vehicle with more than 7,300 lb. of supplies for the International Space Station.
South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program will tread water again in 2016 but has at least survived a risk of cancellation that it has faced over the past few months.
NASA may have to focus its cost-constrained technology investments on human missions launched into an Earth/Moon proving ground through the 2020s rather than placing boots on the Martian terrain in the decade to follow, members of the NASA Advisory Council suggest.
A Colorado-based startup that hopes to use a constellation of small radio-occultation satellites to deliver weather data commercially has signed a contract with Antrix Corp. Ltd. to launch on India’s Polar Space Launch Vehicle beginning late next year.
India is hoping to soon activate its newest satellite tracker in Vietnam, which will help monitor satellites launched from India and receive data from them.
JAXA will spend a week assessing the trajectory of the Hayabusa 2 asteroid explorer mission spacecraft after a scheduled flyby of the Earth early Dec. 3.
Poland may upend tenders for Raytheon’s Patriot, Airbus helo; KRET to upgrade Tupolev Tu-160 bomber avionics; U.S. Navy wraps up Fire Scout assessment, demos targeting comms integrated among multiple aircraft.
