Defense

President Joe Biden on Dec. 16 signed a bill to keep the government open for one more week.

Telesat of Ottawa has finished testing its Phase 1 low-Earth-orbit demonstration satellite.

Roscosmos Space Corp. has suggested that a micrometeorite may have caused the coolant leak on the Russian Soyuz MS-22 spaceship.

U.S. Special Operations Command wants to upgrade the direction finding antenna in the Joint Threat Warning System-Air

Vice President Kamala Harris has named 29 people to join the U.S. National Space Council's Users Advisory Group.

Industrial partners on the joint French, German and Spanish project were awarded a €3.2 billion ($3.4 billion) Phase 1B contract on Dec. 15.

The European Space Agency has solidified its master plan for three demonstration programs aiming at launcher reusability.

Saab has been contracted to develop an upgrade for Sweden’s Gripen C/D combat aircraft.

Boston-based Advent, which bought Britain’s Cobham and Ultra Electronics in recent years, said Maxar is a high-quality known supplier of orbital assets.

With the AW609 closing in on the 20th anniversary of its first flight, could 2023 finally bring high-speed rotorcraft to the commercial market?

A new propulsion technology decades in the making faces a fateful decision point for the Air Force in the new year.

Airbus is planning to begin offering commercial services with its high-flying solar-powered Zephyr uncrewed aircraft by the end of 2024.

At the end of a year filled with profound challenges to the U.S. defense posture, the music of its national defense is surprisingly upbeat.

The Air Force Research Laboratory has contracted with Pacific Defense to develop a modular, open architecture sensor to monitor cislunar space.

A U.S. F-35B crash-landed near Lockheed Martin's assembly line in Texas and the pilot ejected safely .

A planned spacewalk by two Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station was delayed due to a Soyuz leak.

U.S. Space Forces Korea is the Space Force's first command outside of the United States.

The single-engine delta-winged Kizilelma took to the air Dec. 14 from Baykar’s flight-test facility near Istanbul.

The move follows the decision by the German government to pursue development of an electronic warfare derivative of the Eurofighter.

While regional concerns in Yemen and Syria have somewhat stabilized, the Middle East tries to adapt to a new global strategic situation

Ukraine appears to have fashioned the Tu-141 into a weapon that is attacking targets deep in Russian territory.

The sensors would allow artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to report on quality and defects.

Work will focus on the electronic control system for CFM International’s Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines (RISE) demonstrator engine program.

Germany has formally joined the growing list of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter customers.

The U.S. Air Force and Capitol Hill want to bring on the Boeing E-7A Wedgetail as fast as possible.