Defense

Rocket Lab has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with U.S. Transportation Command to explore using the company’s Neutron and Electron launch vehicles to transport cargo around the world.

When the war in Ukraine shifted East in May and it was clear Kyiv would need different types of weapons from the West, the Pentagon posted a call to industry.

Albedo, a startup developing very-low-Earth-orbit imagery satellites, has raised a $48 million Series A round.

U.S. military officials are showing off a new long-range missile-launching role for large cargo aircraft to foreign countries.

Korea Aerospace Industries is about to deliver FA-50 light combat aircraft (LCA) to an undisclosed first customer in Africa.

The discovery puts pressure on Lockheed’s goal to deliver 147-153 F-35s this year and highlights growing concerns about Chinese suppliers in critical U.S. defense supply chains.

Meteosat Third Generation-I1, an Earth-observation satellite designed to provide significantly improved weather data, is in the final stages of integration at Thales Alenia Space’s assembly facility.

The Pentagon plans within the next week to release new guidance on reducing the impact of inflation on vendors, particularly smaller companies that have firm, fixed-price contracts without flexibility to deal with increasing costs.

The Royal Australian Air Force is not flying its Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning IIs and Boeing EA-18G Growlers to their full combat capabilities at Exercise Pitch Black.

The Colorado Springs facility will serve as a hub to educate, train and test space warfighters and analysts in realistic virtual environments.

In this webinar, Aviation Week Network editors Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne & Brian Everstine discussed the concepts emerging from government and industry leading to a new future of autonomous aircraft.

Conducting the repair at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B could pave the way for another Artemis I launch attempt later this month.

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?

EMBRAER completed flight testing of C-390 for firefighting missions.

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.

Learn how thermostatic technology can improve reliability, precision and overall performance in Avionics, Space, and Defense applications due to its ability to function without a power source, compact size, and low SWaP.

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.

Embraer has successfully completed the flight test of the certification campaign for the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS II).

Qatar has provided a glimmer of light for NH Industries in what would otherwise be dark times. Its air force and navy have taken delivery of the first examples of both variants of the NH90 multi-role military helicopter that it ordered.