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A Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was transported to its launchpad at Cape Canaveral and mounted on top of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket in preparation for liftoff on July 30.

The Hubble Space Telescope, now 31 years old, resumed science operations over the weekend following a June 13 interruption eventually traced to the observatory’s Primary Payload Computer.

The UK is in negotiations with the U.S. Space Force about hosting an advanced deep space radar system.

U.S. President Joe Biden has nominated Andrew Hunter to be the next Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics. In

Jeff Bezos and three other passengers are set to launch on the company’s first human mission on July 20.

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said the spacecraft blasted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and landed “horizontally” in Inner Mongolia.

A video has leaked showing the Sukhoi Checkmate fighter design two days before its scheduled reveal at the MAKS air show. The video confirms the

The U.S. Air Force has performed an inflight, beyond-line-of-sight update to the Lockheed Martin F-16’s electronic warfare (EW) software, showing off

BAE Systems will provide support and training for a new joint British/Qatari Hawk jet trainer squadron being formed in the UK.

An automatic-takeoff-and-landing capability is scheduled to be released to the operational fleet of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9 Reapers owned by the U.S. Air Force next year.

The French Air and Space Force has signed an order for nine Pilatus PC-21 aircraft, to train future military pilots, Pilatus announced.

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has approved a $25.04 billion NASA budget for 2022.

Billions of euros have begun flowing into the European FCAS program to support demonstrator development.

U.S. Army and Navy officials are planning the first round of upgrades for a joint hypersonic missile program.

A covered, full-scale model of a new Russian stealth fighter branded by Rostec in English as “Checkmate” was photographed being moved into a display position on July 15 at Zhukovsky Airbase, the site of next week’s MAKS airshow outside Moscow.

An 18-year-old student on a gap year before college will join Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos and aviation pioneer Wally Funk on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight, slated to launch on July 20, the company said on July 15.

The age of space tourism may have only just begun, with Virgin Galactic’s passenger flight last weekend.

A Lockheed Martin F-35 has teamed up a second time with the same company’s PAC-3 missile to shoot down a surrogate cruise missile during a mid-July

In its latest defense white paper, the Japanese defense ministry names China as its main security threat and for the first time includes the stability of Taiwan in the annual report.

Flight test paves a path toward commercial passenger service.

Over the next decade alone, Aviation Week Network expects military aircraft to generate $1.123 trillion in MRO demand, with annual demand increasing from $106 billion in 2021 to $120 billion in 2030.

U.S. Navy can use KC-46 tankers; Space nuclear-propulsion concepts chosen; Germany’s space command; and India’s 10th P-8.

NASA is making progress in the development of a new spacesuit design to return human explorers to the Moon’s surface and outfit a wide range of male and female astronauts.

Russia’s Roscosmos is testing the elements of a single-orbit flightpath to the International Space Station.

Masten Space Systems will demonstrate a prototype of a GPS-like positioning, navigation and timing system on the Moon for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Mojave, California-based company announced on July 13.