Defense and Space

The long-expected contract award will extend MQ-9B operations to deep within the Arctic Circle.

More details about France’s V-MAX hypersonic glider flight test have emerged.

Axiom Space plans to install a data center on Hab One to be linked to the ISS and use laser communications equipment to connect it to Earth-orbiting satellites.

Despite the conflict in Gaza, the Middle East’s military modernization is continuing.

As hardware prices come down, Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to connect “tens of millions of customers.”

Heir apparent Chris Calio to take over sprawling aerospace and defense giant.

There are two different levels of fire control tracks.

The meeting will come as Austin is in Bahrain and includes nations that are a part of the Combined Maritime Forces partnership under the U.S. 5th Fleet.

The Pentagon will roll out one more tranche of aid for Ukraine before the end of the month as allocated funding will dry up.

Velo3D, a maker of additive manufacturing machinery for SpaceX and other aerospace and defense customers, has ousted its founding chief executive.

The PE owners of legacy space-based services provider Maxar have divested their RF business that Maxar had acquired just 11 months earlier.

The UK Space Agency says it has taken on board criticism over the slow pace of licensing and the high cost of insurance associated with space launches.

The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to Greece.

The SaxaVord Spaceport in the Shetland Islands, Scotland, has been awarded the first-ever UK Civil Aviation Authority license for a vertical-launch site.

The service is adding a new approach to launch contracting, as the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture takes shape.

China’s own upgrades are driving other nations in the region toward change.

Chief operating officers are returning to prominence across aerospace and defense companies as the industry labors to recover from the COVID-19 disruption.

Rocket Lab’s 42nd launch of a two-stage Electron booster lifted off from the company’s Launch Complex 1 in New Zealand at 11:05 p.m. EST Dec. 14.

Congress has OK'd the transfer of seven Lockheed Martin HC-130Hs from the U.S. Coast Guard to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

The U.S. arm of Germany’s Quantum Systems has signed a contract with the New Zealand Ministry of Defense to supply its Vector uncrewed aircraft system.

The test, announced on Dec. 15 by India's Defense Research and Development Organization, is a step towards flight trials of a follow-on, full-scale flying wing UAS.

NASA has offered a preview of Sierra Space’s reusable Dream Chaser resupply demonstration mission to the International Space Station planned for 2024.

The U.S. Space Force has finished a draft concept of operations for ground-moving target indication missions from space.

The uncrewed vehicle, which Xinhua described as a test platform, was launched by the two-stage Long March 2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.

The U.S. military sees orbital transfer vehicles keeping adversaries guessing.