Garnering an investment from the Canadian Federal Government is a “complex” proposition and Bombardier is “working” on it, although timing is uncertain, according to CEO and president Alain Bellemare.
NASA is likely to enter an agreement with China late this summer aimed at collaborating on improvements to the Asian nation’s air traffic control (ATC) system.
A pair of Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) F-35A Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters have completed the first-ever eastbound transatlantic crossing by the new fighter.
India has successfully launched the first test model of its indigenously developed Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), aimed at reducing the cost of future space missions.
With the U.S. Navy using its F/A-18 E/F Super Hornets more rigorously than initially expected, Boeing has started preliminary assessments of what is needed to overhaul the aircraft, increase its combat life and keep it relevant much later into this century.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, newly arrived at its Florida launch site, faces a round of end-of-the-month ground tests at Kennedy Space Center in preparation for a planned Sept. 8 liftoff on the nation’s first attempt to retrieve a sample from an asteroid and return the material to Earth.
The Tether Eye is designed to act as a virtual observation tower to provide 24-hr.-a-day surveillance for security at strategic infrastructure or forward bases.
Best known for its prowess at finding and characterizing hundreds of extrasolar planets, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope is offering new insight into possible processes that enabled early Earth to generate the chemistry and climate necessary for biological activity.
Vertical flight in the news: Boeing’s Phantom Swift looks ahead; Lilium unveils electric VTOL; AVX and Karem advance FVL designs; AHS and Sikorsky announce new prize; Closer look at Leonardo’s AW169.
The U.S. Navy could save money by shifting its missile-salvo defensive anti-air warfare (AAW) strategy away from long-range interceptors and toward medium-range surface-to-air interceptors, hypervelocity projectiles, directed energy weapons and electronic warfare systems, the CSBA says.
Dispersed vertical-insertion operations within enemy target areas could counter strategies to strike U.S. forces with missile salvos, according to a new report from the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.
A U.K. Royal Air Force (RAF) Airbus A330 Voyager aerial refueling aircraft has been conducting clearance trials with the F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter which will allow the fighter to refuel from the tanker.
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.
Human-exploration managers at NASA hope to begin ground-testing a prototype habitat in 2018 for eventual use by Orion-vehicle astronauts in orbit around the Moon.
