Defense

Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will include two astronauts from Saudi Arabia.

Thermoplastic fuselage; Tailless flight control; Robotic sheet-metal forming; Hydrogen aviation ecosystem.

In this A&D Future of the Industry webinar, PwC will discuss their predictions for the dynamic global space sector.

Among the lessons the French Air and Space Force has learned from the war in Ukraine is the importance of suppressing enemy air defenses.

The Indian Finance Minister last week unveiled the nation’s budget,earmarking a 44% hike in non-salary revenue outlays for defense operations and sustainment.

India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. could eventually be awarded the project to manufacture Naval Utility Helicopters.

Changes in radar restrictions in the wake of the Chinese balloon may be causing the surge in detections of unidentified objects in recent days, officials say.

Asked whether the objects shot down on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11 were balloons, Schumer replied, “They believe they were, yes."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the strike on the “unidentified object” in Canadian airspace after speaking to U.S. President Joe Biden.

The leak aboard Progress MS-21, dubbed Progress 82 by NASA, follows a similar coolant leak detected late Dec. 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 shot down an unidentified flying object off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10.

A pair of 6U science sats, originally slated to piggyback a ride to Mars with NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe, will instead launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn.

Several key U.S. Air Force aircraft saw their mission-capable rates drop in fiscal 2022 compared to the prior year.

The program is part of PTDI’s CN235NG upgrade program for the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL).

Lockheed Martin's supplemental protest entered the protest docket on Feb. 6, or 40 days after the Sikorsky parent filed the first complaint against the Army.

The co-located International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) and Naval Defence & Maritime Security Exhibition (NAVDEX) take place at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre on February 20-24.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss a week of high drama, including the shootdown of China's balloon and the future of high-altitude surveillance.

India will receive 275 trainers and LCAs over the next decade, more than any other nation aside from the U.S.

Balloon industry says it can survey the Earth better than satellites and for less cost.

Aviation Week parroted the U.S. government’s statement that the aircraft was down due to a mechanical failure, not a Soviet missile, which proved to be wrong.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of 1,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition bomb kits and 250 Paveway II guided bombs kits to Singapore.

The indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract is part of the Foreign Commercial Imagery Program.

SpaceX fired up 32 of the 33 Raptor engines on its first Starship/Super Heavy booster for a static hot-fire on Feb. 9.

Key lawmakers are already calling for improvements to air surveillance to better detect high-altitude intrusions over the U.S.