Defense

Israel’s SpaceIL, a nonprofit organization pursuing a privately funded mission to the Moon in 2025, plans to use computer vision for its lunar lander’s navigation.

Ben Wallace will continue as UK defense secretary in the new government formed by new Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Leonardo Helicopters is planning take on Airbus in its own backyard by competing for a German requirement for a light utility helicopter.

Baykar’s Bayraktar TB2 uncrewed aircraft system could secure its 30th customer before year-end, senior company officials say.

Russia and Ukraine appear to have settled for a state of mutual denial in the air. But what do U.S. Air Force war planners make of this idea?

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev have picked up where they left off more than two weeks ago when their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) was cut short by a spacesuit battery issue.

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The U.S. Marine Corps is trying out the so-called expeditionary advanced basing operations concept with its Lockheed Martin F-35B fighters while on deployment to Australia.

Saab has conducted live-firing of its motorized variant of its RBS-70NG surface-to-air missile, witnessed by military officials from a total of 15 NATO and non-NATO potential customer countries.

China’s AVIC First Aircraft Institute has flown its Venus-50 solar-powered pseudo satellite for the first time.

The deals come as Chinese naval ships continue to prowl the waters around Taiwan after tensions heightened in early August.

The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.

An order for the Su-35 would be the first major acquisition by Iran for its air force in more than two decades.

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As novel cockpits become a pressing need in civil and military aviation, sensors may enable the creation of metrics for human factors.

The MAFFS was originally designed for the Lockheed Martin C-130, but is compatible with the cargo-handling system on the C-390.

Placing Eutelsat's Konnect VHTS into orbit signals the beginning of the end for Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse.

Stymied by a new liquid hydrogen leak, NASA called off its second attempt to launch the Artemis I flight test.

NASA managers on Sept. 3 cleared the Kennedy Space Center launch team to proceed with fueling the two-stage Space Launch System (SLS) rocket

The U.S. Space Force recently broke ground on an Enhanced Polar Systems-Recapitalization satellite communications terminal in Clear Space Force Station, Alaska.

Sweden and Finland’s air forces will bring an air power increase to NATO’s order of battle and benefit from the alliance’s capabilities.

The U.S. Air Force Academy is showcasing new test capabilities developed as part of research stretching back 16 years supporting the design of the Orion crew capsule for NASA’s Artemis program.

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command on Sept. 2 returned its CV-22 fleet to flight after more than two weeks of grounding because of an issue with the tiltrotor’s gearbox for which the service still does not have a root cause.

Finland has retired its indigenous Vinka training aircraft after 42 years of use.