After an 11-week hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rocket Lab resumed launch operations on June 13 by successfully launching a payload of small satellites for NASA, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the University of New South Wales Canberra Space into low Earth orbit.
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John Slattery, who has led Embraer’s Commercial Aviation business since 2016, will become CEO of commercial and military aircraft engine giant GE Aviation on Sept. 1, replacing David Joyce, who will retire, General Electric announced June 15.
The Pentagon is canvassing industry to gauge whether other companies besides F-35 incumbent Lockheed Martin are capable of fulfilling a performance-based logistics (PBL) contract.
Will Roper, who leads U.S. Air Force acquisition, is requesting that the service take over an artificial intelligence (AI) project called Project Maven.
The Houthis’ use of ballistic and cruise missiles against the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen could inadvertently widen the conflict, a study by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies warns.
Representatives from the three commercial Human Lander System developers recently chosen by NASA to shuttle future astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface are expressing confidence that their efforts can help the agency achieve the White House goal of returning to the Moon with astronauts in 2024 and establishing a sustainable presence.
The first Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) AT-5 advanced trainer flew at Taiwan’s Ching Chuan Kang Air Base on June 10, meeting a schedule target set two years ago.
A consortium of Belgian, French, German, Italian and Polish companies and research institutes has been selected to begin research on electromagnetic railguns.
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank remains committed to AeroVironment’s high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS) unmanned aircraft, the latter’s top executive said.
Last week’s Russian Defense Ministry contract with Sukhoi for 20 Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers is an interim step until development of a modernized variant is completed, an industry source tells Aerospace DAILY.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill, if passed, would be a big win for the F-35, MQ-9, X-58 and the U.S. Army’s UH-60 replacement.
NASA has awarded Astrobotic a $199.5 million contract to deliver the Volatiles Investigation Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s south pole in 2023, where it will search for water ice deposits that could be useful to future astronauts.
The Senate Armed Services Committee blocked the Pentagon’s request for a U.S. Space National Guard and did not address space acquisition in its mark of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill because the Defense Department did not submit information requested in time for debate, according to a committee aide.
