United Launch Alliance’s final Delta II rocket has secured its place in history as the newest member of the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Rocket Garden, an outdoor exhibit of retired launch vehicles.
China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft—one of a trio of missions that successfully reached Mars in February—will dispatch a companion rover for a targeted mid-May landing on the planet’s surface, Chi Wang, director general of China’s National Space Science Center, said March 23.
The Pentagon awarded multibillion-dollar technology development and risk-reduction contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for the Next-Generation Interceptor (NGI), officially ousting Boeing from the competition.
NASA’s newly arrived Perseverance rover is preparing to dispatch a small helicopter that accompanied it to Mars for the first demonstration of powered flight on another planet.
Ahead of the fiscal 2022 budget rollout, 24 Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee are urging President Biden to fund nuclear triad modernization and homeland defense programs.
The UK is looking to develop a constellation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites as it expands its defense involvement in space.
The nominee to lead U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) is “foundational” for filling gaps in the region such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, long-range joint integrated fires and logistics under attack, but would not commit to the Guam Defense System as his top priority.
Lockheed Martin and Omnispace, a startup targeting satellite-enabled 5G communications, on March 23 announced a “strategic interest agreement” to explore 5G business opportunities from space, and possibly creating the first dual-use commercial- and government-serving platform.
Metal 3D-printing startup Velo3D, which has targeted the aerospace and defense sector as a key customer, will become a publicly traded company in a reverse merger announced March 23 with blank-check company Jaws Spitfire Acquisition.
The future of the ground-based air defense system formerly known as Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) appears fragile after procurement of the system by the German government was put on ice.
UK aerospace maintenance firm Marshall Aerospace says it is “disappointed” about the UK government’s decision to retire its Lockheed C-130J Hercules fleet.
As a result of the relatively limited economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Asia-Pacific (APAC) compared to other regions around the world, Aviation Week analysts expect that defence budgets throughout the region will continue to expand at robust rates over the next five years, following a brief slowdown.
The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee believes Democrats will try to kill the U.S. Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the upcoming budget cycle, but is confident there is not enough support for the strategy to be successful.
Electronics manufacturer Ametek on March 22 announced it has agreed to acquire Abaco Systems, a provider of embedded computing systems for aerospace and defense, among other sectors, from Veritas Capital in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.35 billion.
After a two-day delay to conduct additional ground equipment checks, the Soyuz 2.1a rocket flew through clouds above the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 2:07 a.m. EDT on March 22.
A bidding war is breaking out over military trainer and C4ISR provider Cubic, with a new bid worth around hundreds of millions of dollars more emerging from Singapore Technologies Engineering, Cubic acknowledged March 22.
A Boston startup is taking a new look at wing-in-ground-effect vehicles through the lens of distributed electric propulsion, advanced flight control and hydrofoil lifting surface technology.
