Defense

The mission is set to deliver an 8,200-lb. cargo of scientific research and technology activities.

Overseeing the two-week Axiom-4 mission will be former NASA veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson.

The service has cleared the Load Adaptable Modular pylon to fly on one hardpoint.

Muon Space, an end-to-end space systems provider, has raised $56.7 million in a Series B funding round.

The joint services will become available after 2025.

The first of 20 operational MH-139 Gray Wolf helicopters now on contract transferred to Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.

The U.S. State Department gave the green light for Bratislava’s potential acquisition of 12 AH-1Zs on July 31.

Warsaw plans to acquire 96 of the aircraft.

The Philippines is looking to add Germany to its growing list of arms suppliers through a joint defense pact.

The UK Royal Household has placed an order for two new helicopters from Italy’s Leonardo to replace the pair of Sikorsky S-76C++ it has in service.

Technical problems have delayed Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo ship from executing the maneuvering burns that will allow it to dock with the ISS.

Predicting the end of dogfighting has been a cottage industry for decades, but the prospect is now very real.

Several aircraft from a batch delivered at the end of July were on display at an event and in online imagery marking Ukraine’s Air Force Day on Aug. 4.

With the predicted approach of a tropical storm this weekend, NASA and SpaceX could be challenged to launch the 21st Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS.

The fiscal 2025 defense appropriations bill passed by Senate appropriators proposes to acquire 255 new military aircraft, or 19 more than the Pentagon requested.

Pentagon civilian leaders have reversed course on support for a submarine-launched, low-yield nuclear missile.

The signing of the Milestone B acquisition decision memorandum earlier this week comes 20 months after Bell won a four-year-long competition.

The U.S. Air Force has proposed a high-altitude balloon program as an option for the broader Replicator initiative to accelerate new autonomous systems.

The Indonesian Air Force is set to buy a fleet of Bayraktar TB2 uncrewed aerial systems to bolster its surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.

Kelly Ortberg has a stellar track record as an aerospace CEO, but he faces momentous challenges in Seattle.

Compound, conventional rotorcraft and tiltrotors are among the technologies being proposed by industry for NATO’s future rotorcraft needs.

Leadership sets the tone, and incoming Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg has results and relations.

The Royal Jordanian Air Force spent the latter half of the 2010s working to divest itself of aircraft programs in an effort to slow an oncoming budgetary crisis in the country. But notwithstanding constrained funding, the need for a strong regional bloc to counterbalance growing instability in the region remains strong.

DE HAVILLAND CANADA booked orders for 11 DHC-515 firefighting aircraft from GREECE, CROATIA and PORTUGAL.

The Crew Flight Test of the Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has marked its eighth week docked at the International Space Station.