Leonardo has confirmed it will offer its AW149 twin-engine multirole helicopter platform as a potential replacement for the UK’s Airbus Puma helicopters, after the government’s Integrated Review confirmed the type would be replaced with a new medium rotorcraft.
The upcoming launch of Russia’s Soyuz MS-18 to the International Space Station with two cosmonauts and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will initiate a dynamic few weeks of crew exchanges.
DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB, Arizona—The U.S. Air Force is beginning a lengthy process to warehouse four aging B-1 aircraft for future spare parts, storing them in a state in which they cannot immediately get up to a flying standard if the U.S. goes to war.
The European Space Agency has allotted a combined €10.45 million ($12.5 million) to two UK companies developing microlaunchers for small satellites: Orbex and Skyrora.
The fifth Space-Based Infrared System satellite has arrived at the processing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, ahead of its anticipated launch from a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 17.
Another month, another big announcement from private equity-founded Redwire: this time that the new-space roll up will become a publicly traded company in a reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company known to be hunting for aerospace and defense assets.
Another phase of the fatigue test of the new L-39NG jet aircraft from the Czech manufacturer Aero Vodochody was successfully completed at the Czech Aerospace Research Centre in Prague.
Canadian space stalwart MDA, which was taken private a year ago by private equity buyer Northern Private Capital, has filed with Canadian securities authorities for an initial public offering of stock worth almost $400 million.
The two teams competing to develop the Next-Generation Interceptor—Lockheed Martin and a Northrop Grumman-Raytheon Technologies partnership—are entering an initial baseline phase that will lead into a preliminary design review for a system designed to protect the U.S. from long-range missile attacks.
The first of the Royal Navy’s new Crowsnest Airborne Surveillance and Control helicopters has been inducted into service and will be ready for the UK’s first Carrier Strike Group 21 deployment in May.
Leonardo, Italy’s large aerospace and defense company, said March 24 that it has postponed the initial public offering of stock in its U.S. defense electronics subsidiary known as DRS.
A novel active landing gear designed by electric aircraft startup Metro Hop to enable ultrashort takeoffs and landings is to be tested under the U.S. Air Force’s Agility Prime advanced air mobility program.
NASA is unveiling a two-phase, multiyear strategy to foster the development of multiple U.S. commercial low Earth orbit free flyers that would take over current International Space Station activities.
With a 23rd successful mission dedicated to deploying its Starlink communications network, SpaceX is closing in on its initial goal of about 1,450 operational satellites to kick off commercial broadband services in the U.S. and other regions.
The UK government is planning reforms to defense procurement as part of a strategy that aims to foster a more productive relationship between government and the defense and security industry.
The French Government is to assist west African nations in the fight against Jihadist insurgents and terrorists by supplying more Tétras CS and CSM light intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft, writes Jon Lake.
Developers of the solar electric propulsion (SEP) system for NASA’s Lunar-orbiting Gateway outpost have successfully validated key elements of the design.
