Pratt & Whitney will reduce the unit recurring flyaway (URF) cost of the F135 engine by 3% over a three-year ordering period for Lockheed Martin F-35s scheduled for delivery from 2020 to 2022, the company says.
Virgin Galactic and the Italian Air Force signed a contract Oct. 2 to train and carry three Italians into suborbital space aboard SpaceShipTwo to conduct research experiments in flight as soon as next year.
The U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 is being developed as a carrier-based aerial refueler, but an intelligence agency is showing interest in the unmanned aircraft system for a maritime surveillance role.
The expansion by Flir Systems into unmanned aircraft services is rolling on as it acquires the intellectual property and certain operating assets of Aria Insights.
Avic is working toward flying an operational near-space, solar-powered drone in 2021, following a decision this year to proceed with a demonstrator of 50-m (164-ft.) wingspan.
Inmarsat has signed a contract with the ESA to begin the second phase of the Iris development program to create a satellite data link capability for aircraft flying in Europe.
Sixteen vehicles purporting to be road-mobile launchers for DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles appeared in China’s National Day parade on Oct. 1, sending a signal that the weapon is operational.
Bell's new Invictus has a single main rotor and shrouded tail rotor, a wing to offload the rotor, and is powered by a single General Electric T901 Improved Turbine Engine, augmented by a supplemental power unit to provide higher speed.
A scheduled flight-testing battery for a new crop of hypersonic and long-range weapons is putting pressure on operational test and evaluation sites to keep up.
Five defensive concepts, including one by Boeing and two each submitted by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, were downselected from a pool of 21 proposals.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Oct. 1 announced an opinion backing Houston-based tech startup Intuitive Machines in its legal fight against Moon Express, a privately owned lunar transportation and services company based at Cape Canaveral.
Whitcraft, a Connecticut-based manufacturer of highly-engineered precision formed, precision machined, and fabricated products for aerospace turbine engine OEMs and Tier I suppliers, said Oct. 1 it acquired Multax of Morton, Illinois, which has roots in programming the first multiple axis machines ever used.
The Chinese YJ-18 anti-ship missile made its first public appearance in the country’s Oct. 1 National Day parade, several years after its reported first deployment.
Advanced composites provider Gurit announced Oct. 1 that it will close one of its aerospace business sites, in Zullwil, Switzerland, and concentrate work at its Kassel, Germany, center by the end of 2021.
World View Enterprises Inc. has exceeded by more than two days its goal of a 30-day demo Stratollite balloon mission for sustained navigational stratospheric flight.
China unveiled a hypersonically gliding surface-to-surface missile, the DF-17, at its national day parade on Oct. 1, saying the weapon is non-nuclear and has the powerful ability to penetrate defenses.
The USAF's Space and Missile Systems Center and the NRO has awarded a $1.18B sole-source contract modification to the United Launch Alliance to support five Delta IV heavy launches over five years.
