Austria’s Airpower Airshow claims to have secured the European debut of China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force with the participation of an X’ian Y-20 airlifter.
The Pentagon is implementing a new plan to avoid civilian casualties in air strikes and other combat operations, with steps such as creating a new data system for sharing information on potential civilian harm and incorporating new guidance into military training, exercises and doctrine.
NASA on Aug. 25 was on track to begin the two-day launch countdown for its first Space Launch System rocket, leading to a launch attempt at 8:33 a.m. EDT on Aug. 29 from Kennedy Space Center.
Boeing is aiming to launch its third CST-100 Starliner spacecraft—this time with a pair of NASA astronauts aboard—in about six months, managers told reporters on Aug. 25.
The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, recently tested using autonomous vehicles to speed up material handling at a parts warehouse, an experiment to find ways to free up personnel for aircraft maintenance work.
U.S. startup Jetoptera plans to test a blended wing body model with integrated fluidic propulsion and upper-surface blowing as it bids to win a U.S. Air Force contract to build a prototype high-speed vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft.
A Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber recently launched a Lockheed Martin AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range for the first time as part of a series of upgrades to the bomber.
U.S. aircraft struck infrastructure sites reportedly belonging to Iranian-backed militias on Aug. 23 more than a week after American troops were targeted in an attack that a U.S. official said was directly linked to Tehran by, among other things, wreckage of Iranian-made drones.
Amid growing orbital threats from China and Russia, U.S. Space Command is calling on industry for innovative solutions to form a global space domain awareness sensor network that will be interoperable with systems used by international allies.
Lockheed Martin Australia has announced that its R&D team’s Science, Technology, Engineering Leadership, Research Laboratory has successfully implemented artificial intelligence-powered decision support capabilities for the Australia Defense Force’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense system.
The U.S. Air Force wants to privatize its helicopter pilot training, turning to industry to provide all aspects of initial training for pilots headed for its chopper cockpits.
NASA has chosen three companies to continue the development and environmental testing of prototype vertical solar arrays that could be positioned at the Moon’s south pole to provide electrical power for a range of future human and robotic operations.
The Pentagon’s initial development of counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities was specifically focused on Middle East base defenses, but the Russia-Ukraine war has shown that the capability needs to be deployed globally with tactical units also able to down the drones, the U.S. Army’s officer in charge of the mission says.
The U.S. Army has halted further flight tests of the Airbus Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite following the loss of one of the aircraft after a 64-day flight.
Following an 11-hr. flight readiness review, NASA on Aug. 22 cleared the first Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft for a launch on the kickoff mission of the Artemis program, a U.S.-led initiative to establish a permanent human presence in deep space.
Startup Relativity Space successfully completed a full-duration, 20-sec. test run of its Terran 1 rocket with its nine first-stage Aeon liquid oxygen/liquid natural gas engines at Cape Canaveral on Aug. 22, clearing a major hurdle toward a planned debut launch attempt in the coming weeks or months.
