The ACMI pod, developed by the defense ministry’s Defense Potential Directorate and private company PT Tress, is ready for production after tests on prototypes showed it met all the requirements of the Indonesian Air Force, the ministry says.
With an eye on the growing smallsat market, Arianespace has unveiled the first of a planned series of dedicated small satellite rideshare missions direct to geostationary orbit.
The first of 15 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band pods ordered by the Navy will be used to verify aircraft installation compliance, including mass properties and ground procedures.
The agency previously selected 13 cubesats to piggyback rides on the first SLS-Orion mission, an unmanned flight known as Artemis-1 that is expected to launch in 2021.
The U.S. Air Force agreed to accept deliveries of KC-46 aircraft last January after a two-year impasse on the condition that Boeing correct two technical deficiencies.
A $23.8 million contract awarded on Aug. 2 by the Air Force Research Laboratory launches the service’s experiment with a laser intended to shoot down swarms of small unmanned air systems, along with salvos of mortars and rockets.
At $2,500 a month per satellite, LeoTrack is intended for use by all smallsat operators, from individual academic satellites to commercial constellations.
Austria’s Schiebel Group has formed a new subsidiary to market its Camcopter S-100 unmanned helicopter in the U.S. and named industry veteran Gretchen West to lead the company.
Only two months after government officials warned of a potentially year-long delay, the Russian military has completed the first flight of the Sukhoi S-70 Hunter unmanned assault aircraft, Russian news agencies reported on Aug 2. The flight lasted more than 20 min. before a successful landing, state news agency TASS reported, citing an official statement circulated by the Ministry of Defense.
A possibly design-related blockage of the cooling system in the GOES 17 weather sat is responsible for the degraded performance of the spacecraft’s primary instrument, the $100 million Advanced Baseline Image, an investigation shows.
Hanwha is offering a road-mobile variant of the KTSSM for export, even before the South Korean army deploys the short-range ballistic missile next year.
Japan has lifted the grounding order on its Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning force that had been in place since immediately after one of the fighters crashed on April 9.
Russian arms trade agency Rosoboronexport confirmed this week it has approved the resale of two Ilyushin Il-76MF military transports from Jordan to Egypt.
Since 2013, the U.S. has accused Russia of violating the treaty by developing, testing and deploying a new cruise missile with a range greater than 500 km.
U.S. Navy investigators have begun an inquiry into the fatal crash of a Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet on July 31 during a low-level flying exercise near Death Valley, California.
Boeing’s exit from the Ground-based Strategic Deterrent program to replace the U.S.’s nuclear ICBMs leave the Air Force with Northrop as a lone contractor. Aviation Week editors discuss the company’s possible motivation and what it means for the future of the Pentagon’s nuclear program.
The Sikorsky S-70 is increasingly becoming the backbone of Saudi Arabia’s rotary-wing fleet and, as Jon Lake reports, a number of S-70 and UH-60 variants are now spread across several of the kingdom’s military and parapublic air arms.
Avionics companies will show off future cockpit concepts for U.S. Special Operations Command rotorcraft in September, the Sofwerx rapid acquisition office announced.
