NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission spacecraft has successfully concluded a week-long checkout of a half dozen primary science and navigational instruments.
Air Combat Command’s EQ-4B and E-11A Battlefield Communications Node fleet have served as high-flying combat comms relays for eight years and counting.
AeroVironment developed its Blackwing small unmanned aircraft system to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance for submerged submarines. Now the company has demonstrated how its UAS can act as a digital communications relay, enabling the sub to control a swarm of unmanned underwater vehicles.
Observations of Jupiter’s intriguing ice- and ocean-covered moon Europa made with the Hubble Space Telescope offer the first visual evidence for geyser-like plumes of salty water erupting 125 mi. into space.
JP Aerospace has launched the latest subscale prototype in its Airship to Orbit project to provide affordable access to space using lighter-than-air vehicles.
The U.S. Air Force has completed safety inspections on four ground surveillance aircraft—almost 25% of the fleet—and the jets have returned to flight, the service says.
The Airbus Perlan Mission II team has wrapped up its first season of flights in Argentina en route to attempting to set a glider altitude record of 90,000 ft. in the stratospheric Perlan 2.
The new commander of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command won't take his “foot off the gas” when it comes to laser weapon development for an AC-130J Block 60 gunship.
British ejection seat manufacturer Martin-Baker will face prosecution from the U.K. Health and Safety Executive (HSE) over the fatal inadvertent ejection of a member of the Red Arrows aerobatic team.
India has successfully launched eight satellites into two different orbits using one rocket, marking one of the most complex launches in the history of the country’s space missions.
Lockheed Martin is focusing increased attention on Africa as a market for its C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft, in the face of stiff competition from the Airbus Defence C295, and the Alenia C-27J Spartan. Jon Lake reports.
As the U.S. Air Force presses forward with its J-Stars Recapitalization competition, a 10-aircraft Compass Call requirement has manufacturers vying for special-mission work.
The contract between France and India is welcomed by French officials as a diplomatic coup, but it also looms large as part of the arms race between India and some of its neighbors—namely Pakistan and China.
Without a clear idea of what kind of capabilities an FVL Medium power plant might need, the program office will leave the engine choice up to the contractor eventually selected to build the new aircraft.
In a modest facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, a small team of experts leads an effort to develop the dashboard displays that will enable astronauts to interact with Orion.
A new aerospace and defense technology incubator effort comes back to Washington Sept. 27 with a twist: established aerospace and defense companies will pitch funded innovation projects to qualified startups looking for partners.
Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority and the European Aviation Safety Agency are studying whether offshore helicopter safety could benefit from an ETOPS specification to improve system reliability.
Aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has appointed a new chief financial officer as its continues a shake-up designed to cut costs after profit warnings and concerns from investors.
