Defense

Paris-based fleet operator Eutelsat has ordered an all-electric communications satellite in development at spacecraft manufacturer Thales Alenia Space.

U.K. aerostructures manufacturer GKN has completed the acquisition of Fokker Technologies.

The world’s last flying Avro Vulcan has performed its final flight, eight years after the aircraft was returned to the sky by volunteers.

Commercial software and probabilistic algorithms could trim hours from the cruise missile mission planning process.

LRS-B was once deemed a tipping point for Northrop Grumman Aerospace’s future, but the shape of the industrial base is not likely to change soon after the award announcement.

Northrop Grumman is the winner of the Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) contest, beating a rival team with six times its annual sales.

Northrop Grumman was one-sixth the size of its rival team but has the experience that counts.

Northrop Grumman was one-sixth the size of its rival team but has the experience that counts.

The 30-min low-speed flight of the first engineering development model (EDM-1) begins a three-year, 2,000-hr. flight test program.

The Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRS-B) program and today’s source selection cannot be understood without looking at LRS-B’s roots.

A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active electronically scanning array radar.

A NAS report says NASA’s Earth Sciences Division budget is constrained and in need of a framework for prioritizing its choices for space missions.

U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has named retired U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Frank Kelley to be the first deputy assistant secretary of the navy (DASN) for unmanned systems.

U.S. Navy officials have made it clear they expect to rely on the Growlers more, even as the F-35C carrier-variant Joint Strike Fighters (JSF) come on line.

At Albertville in the French Alps, Thales and SAF Helicopteres, a specialist in mountain aerial work and helicopter emergency service (HEMS) operations, share a training facility equipped with two Thales Reality H full flight simulators (FFS) configured for the EC135 T2+ and AS350 B3e helicopters. Report by David Oliver.

A U.S. guided missile destroyer has passed within 12 nm of Subi and Mischief reefs in the Spratly Islands, which are under dispute by China and its neighbors.

Controllers operating the New Horizons Pluto probe have confirmed that the nuclear-powered spacecraft completed the second of four maneuvers designed to take it past a lone Kuiper Belt Object at the beginning of 2019.

A proposed South Korean air and missile defense system comparable with the Lockheed Martin Thaad will employ a large trailer-mounted radar with an active, electronically scanning array.

“The launch target for GSLV-Mk. 3 is December 2016. That will be followed with a second launch in December 2017,” says A.S. Kiran Kumar, chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization.

Boeing’s KC-46A has been selected for the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) new air refueling tanker.

Saab says it is ready for volume production of a fighter radar using gallium-nitride technology in an active electronically scanned array (AESA).

Funding cuts have curtailed U.S. Navy aircraft maintenance, exacerbating carrier wing gaps, a recent Hudson Institute report says.

The forward deployed expeditionary submarine tender Emory S. Land recently completed its Fleet Maintenance Activity Assessment (FMAA) in Guam.

Turbofan surprises testers and survives first controlled on-wing test of volcanic ash ingestion, providing data on what happens inside a jet engine flying though an ash cloud.

In September 2014, the U.S. Air Force began fielding an Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System