Defense

A ULA Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 9, sending a joint European-U.S. science spacecraft on its way for an unprecedented mission to study the Sun’s polar regions.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD) has acquired “Fire Weaver,” a networked sensor-to-shooter system. The system is expected to serve the Israel

Drone swarms are a new threat, and Singapore has an answer.

ST Engineering is in the final stages of developing a new family of Veloce unmanned air systems.

Singapore has revealed a new ambition in the space market.

Dismounted forces are always at a disadvantage when it comes to heavy weapons. That’s why Rafael is introducing two new guided weapons providing the infantry a “tactical multi-domain” capability.

When a customer is looking to expand or upgrade an existing fleet, the incumbent supplier ought to be at a distinct advantage.

Coronavirus or not, the Singapore Airshow will likely still go on — albeit with 8% fewer participating exhibitors, 10-15 fewer aircraft in the static display and less than half the expected attendance during the public days, the event organizers say.

The UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency envisions using MALE UAVs to support search, rescue and anti-pollution missions.

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and de Havilland Canada are the latest companies to pull out from the show.

The British Maritime and Coastguard Agency has inducted a pair of Beechcraft King Air 200 turboprop aircraft to support its search-and-rescue, fisheries and pollution detection missions.

NASA and Boeing will review all 1 million lines of code following errors found during the CST-100 Starliner's troubled uncrewed orbital flight demonstration mission in December.

Canadian pilot training specialist CAE expects increasing demand for its simulators for Boeing 737 MAX and continues to make so-called “white tail” systems ahead of actual orders.

From the rise and fall of research dollars to signs of a successful reorganization of space acquisitions, experts at the Center for Strategic and

The Pentagon’s leading contractor by annual sales, Lockheed Martin, employed about 110,000 workers at the end of 2019.

The Space Development Agency intends to hold an industry day in Colorado Springs that coincides with the National Space Symposium.

KBR, Inc. will train commercial astronauts selected for missions to the International Space Station (ISS) and perhaps other destinations under a nonexclusive NASA Reimbursable Space Act Agreement.

Ball Aerospace expects to hire around 1,000 new employees in 2020, following similar annual increases in recent years, executives said Feb. 6.

The market for radar images and radio frequency mapping from space still relies on military and government customers.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a batch of 34 satellites for aspiring broadband operator OneWeb lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Feb. 6, setting the stage for monthly flights to build an initial constellation of 648 spacecraft.

After forming a strategic partnership in 2019, Alphabet company Loon and SoftBank subsidiary HAPSMobile have jointly developed a broadband-internet communications payload for the AeroVironment-designed Hawk30 high-altitude pseudo-satellite.

In addition to a software problem that ultimately forced Boeing to abandon a docking of its first CST-100 Starliner at the International Space Station, the uncrewed capsule suffered a second, previously unreported software problem during its December flight test.

Airbus has been awarded additional study contracts to support the militarization of the company’s H160 twin-engine medium helicopter to meet the needs of the French military.

The first modernized Tupolev Tu-160M, the latest variant of the Cold War-era Tu-160 Blackjack heavy strategic bomber, made its first flight on Feb. 2..