Defense and Space

Scaled Composites, which has built and flown a new aircraft roughly every year since forming in 1982, is still expanding in its 17th year with Northrop Grumman.

The cover of our May 14, 1979 edition featured a photo of Enterprise, the engineless test space shuttle, mounted on Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.

The Phase 4 Enhancements (P4E) package will be the largest and most complex upgrade for the Eurofighter yet.

The bulletin names the Test Flying Academy of South Africa, Beijing China Aviation Technology Co. and Stratos.

Lockheed Martin signed a deal with Firefly Aerospace for up to 25 Alpha rocket launches through 2029.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has committed to purchasing another 20 Eurofighter combat aircraft to help support the country’s defense industry.

The NATO Innovation Fund has co-led a $22.5 million Series A funding round in the UK’s iCOMAT, an advanced composites manufacturer.

Two NASA astronauts lifted off from Cape Canaveral SFS on June 5 for a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.

Daher’s board of directors has appointed Didier Kayat as the group’s chairman of the board to succeed Patrick Daher, who is retiring.

Airbus has lifted the veil on its concept for an autonomous collaborative combat aircraft that would accompany current combat aircraft into battle.

The Electron's launch was followed 53 min. later by deployment of "Prefire and Ice" into a 326-mi.-high orbit.

Photos from Bombardier Defense and Lufthansa Technik Defense show the modified Global 6000 with large cheek and under-fuselage fairings.

Since the latest malfunction, NASA has decided to transition the Hubble Space Telescope to a single-gyroscope operating mode by mid-June, officials say.

“What we really need to focus on right now with the [Space Development Agency] is that [missile]-tracking layer,” a senior Space Force official says.

The Pentagon’s advanced research agency has selected six teams to develop preliminary designs for a shipborne VTOL uncrewed aircraft.

The company is flight-testing a subscale rotor blown wing as it pursues advanced UAS for an array of missions.

Canada's procurement agency plans to fast-track its new fighter training program, awarding a contract within three years and introducing the jet by 2030.

The FAA on June 4 cleared SpaceX to proceed with the fourth Integrated Flight Test of a Starship-Super Heavy launch system, with the launch targeted for June 6.

An Air Force F-15 pilot failed to engage the emergency braking/steering system during an emergency landing, causing the Eagle to crash into an irrigation canal.

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The House Appropriations Committee plans to allocate billions of dollars to fund missile-warning-and-tracking initiatives in its fiscal 2025 bill.

The letter of agreement signed on June 4 by a procurement delegation sent by the Ministry of Defense Washington moves forward Israel’s third batch of F-35Is.

Development work on the U.S. Air Force’s experimental, hypersonic Mayhem vehicle has been paused following the completion of an early design milestone.

On July 20, 1944, in the midst of World War II, the U.S. War Department announced that a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft had made the first nonstop flight between London and Washington.