MDA has been awarded a $269 million contract by the Canadian Space Agency to complete preliminary design of the Canadarm3 robotic arm for Gateway, a space station planned for lunar orbit.
George Nield, who oversaw commercial spaceflight for the FAA before becoming a private consultant, is among five paying passengers slated to ride on Blue Origin’s next flight of its New Shepard suborbital system, with liftoff targeted for March 23.
Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has assured the U.S. that NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will be returning to Earth from the International Space Station as planned aboard the Soyuz MS-19 that is set to land in Kazakhstan on March 30.
The head of U.S. Pacific Air Forces favors choosing the Boeing F-15EX to replace two squadrons of aging F-15C/D fighters at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
After spending a decade building up a portfolio of low-cost unmanned aircraft systems aimed at disrupting the low end of the market for autonomy in military aviation, Kratos Defense is now taking aim at the burgeoning market for hypersonic vehicles.
Italian defense conglomerate Leonardo is planning to invest around €300 million ($328.6 million) annually over the next five years to modernize its production processes and develop new products and technology.
Two U.S. Air Force pilots have become the first to conduct crewed test flights of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft under the service’s Agility Prime program.
Pictures of the MIUS prototype fuselage in assembly at the company’s facility in Istanbul were published online by the company’s chief technology officer.
The first of three Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Block 30 (I) Global Hawks arrived in Japan March 12, more than three years after the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract was signed in November 2018.
The Indian Defense Ministry is investigating how an unarmed, supersonic missile flew by accident from the Indian state of Haryana 124 km (77 mi.) into Pakistan on March 9.
With a growing chorus of lawmakers calling on the Biden administration to help send Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, the Pentagon is sharing more detail on the air battles over that nation to argue more aircraft are not needed.
Venturi Astrolab, the bespoke European car company’s space startup comprising NASA and SpaceX alumni in Hawthorne, California, has unveiled its Flex rover family for manned Moon and Mars missions.
The Croatian Ministry of Defense is examining the wreckage of an uncrewed aircraft that crashed near Zagreb, apparently having overflown Hungary and Romania and may have come from Ukraine.
NASA has reached an “inflection point” as it looks to transition its human-spaceflight focus from low-Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, according to the chair of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
The Philippine Air Force has taken delivery of its first T129 ATAK attack helicopters from Turkish Aerospace, becoming the first export customer for the platform.
Finland’s Aurora Propulsion Technologies and U.S. space traffic-management startup Kayhan Space have partnered to develop a system to autonomously identify collision threats and automate avoidance maneuvers in low Earth orbit.
Pakistan has inducted its first batch of six Chengdu J-10C multi-role fighters, a week after they were delivered to Kamra Air Base on March 4. This marks the first export for the Chinese-made type, which was acquired by Pakistan in response to India’s acquisition of Dassault Rafales.
