Defense

EMBRAER signed MOUs with three South Korean companies, ASTG, EMK and KENCOA AEROSPACE, for future supply of parts for C-390 to contribute to offset

TRIUMPH was selected by Lockheed Martin to manufacture the brake valve assembly for the F-16 at Valencia, CA.

Anti-satellite threats force military satellites to use more fuel.

Working with NASA’s long-running Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the agency’s soon-to-conclude Mars InSight Lander mission has made a potentially far-reaching discovery.

Russia has formalized its decision to stay at the International Space Station beyond 2024, the first nation to do so.

With its first two satellites set for launch in early 2023, Amazon on Oct. 27 unveiled plans for an additional, 172,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant in the Seattle area that will be dedicated to production of Kuiper satellites for an Amazon-owned high-speed broadband network.

The Pentagon needs to develop and acquire more agile missile tracking sensors and defeat systems, with a specific focus on regional hypersonic threats and protecting the island of Guam, as adversaries—especially China—increase their offensive capabilities, a new policy statement says.

The Biden administration, in its long-awaited outline of nuclear policy, has detailed its thinking behind canceling the contentious Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear and retiring the B83-1 gravity bomb.

A prototype of the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 has flown with new upgrades that add new automated features and may enable in the future a re-engining and an expanded set of munitions, United Aircraft Corp. says.

SINGAPORE—Embraer has signed agreements with three South Korean aerospace companies—Aerospace Technology of Global, EM Korea Co. and Kencoa Aerospace

The acquisition, announced by Leonardo Oct. 27, is part of an ongoing recapitalization of the law enforcement agency’s rotary-wing assets

Despite differences between nations, space exploration should remain a place for civil collaboration.

China flies new UAS; Aero Vodochody’s L-159 upgrade; MDA receives NGI software build; and Lockheed to make PRSM missiles in 2023.

After the company's latest results were released, Boeing’s stock price dropped around 9% for the day, bringing its year-to-date total falloff to 36%.

Startup Quantum Space is targeting October 2024 for the launch of the first in a series of spacecraft to provide space situational awareness, host customer payloads and other services in cislunar space.

The U.S. Defense Department on Oct. 26 completed the first of two planned sounding rocket launches to test new technologies at hypersonic speed from NASA’s space launch facility in Wallops, Virginia.

A South Africa-based test pilot school at the center of a growing international controversy over the recruitment of former Western military pilots to train Chinese personnel has denied wrongdoing.

A chronic shortage of parts and labor drove Boeing executives on Oct. 26 to report $2.76 billion in new reach-forward losses in the third quarter across five fixed-price development programs in the Defense, Space and Security division.

NASA and partner crowdsourcing platform HeroX are looking for help solving human spacecraft life support challenges.

It is the world’s first large-scale four-engined uncrewed air system (UAS), says manufacturer Tengden.

The Progress 82 resupply mission is on course to dock with the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Oct. 27.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has four Poseidon on order, the first of which is expected to arrive in country in December.

Woodward is likely far from the last large aerospace and defense company to announce a post-pandemic business restructuring.

The service’s experiment has become the Pentagon’s lead JADC2 proving ground, but more work is needed to connect sensors and shooters.

Kongsberg NanoAvionics plans to make a “multimillion” euro investment to increase its manufacturing capacity to produce several hundred small satellites annually.