Defense

India’s state-run space agency will launch an exclusive satellite for the country’s home ministry to help secure the country’s borders.

AeroVironment’s secretive, high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) program aimed at the 5G market has “generated close to $75 million-plus” worth of orders.

Will a five-year bipartisan consensus on increasing defense spending hold up in the next Pentagon budget?

NASA astronaut Eric Boe, one of three crewmembers assigned to make a flight test aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, has been pulled from the mission.

France and Germany have pledged to strengthen their bilateral defense cooperation following the signing of a new treaty.

This week’s planned launch of India’s Microsat-R remote sensing satellite will feature a unique experiment involving the PSLV's fourth stage.

Germany’s Rheinmetall and Britain’s BAE Systems have agreed to create a joint venture to support a series of upcoming British combat vehicle programs.

A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed Jan. 22 at the Olenegrosk military airfield in the Murmansk region of northern Russia.

ArianeGroup has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for a one-year feasibility study on exploiting lunar natural resources by 2025.

As part of preparations for a full-scale intercept test with the Arrow-3 ballistic missile defense system to be performed in Alaska, Israel and the U.S. have tested the missile over the Mediterranean.

A decision by embattled aerospace and defense supplier Arconic to not sell itself means a longer road to recovery for shareholders, analysts said.

Prior-year restructuring and the continuing upswing of aerospace and defense end-markets boosted Allegheny Technologies in 2018.

Ivory Coast has ordered a single Airbus C295 twin-turboprop airlifter for its air force, the airframer announced Jan. 21.

The purchases of Israel Military Industries by Elbit Systems and Aeronautics by Rafael will allow these firms to address the needs of the Israeli Air Force for UAS.

Cambridge Pixel, a developer of radar display, tracking and recording sub-systems, is supplying its IFF (identification friend or foe) secondary radar processing and plot extraction technology to Tellumat, as part of an upgrade of Secondary Surveillance Radars (SSR) for the South African Air Force (SAAF), at six airfield sites across the country.

The Ministry of Defence of Ivory Coast has signed a firm order for one C295 medium transport aircraft.

A few details and the probable choice of engines suggest the aircraft will be conceptually like the retired U.S. F-111, but perhaps a lot bigger.

X-59A cockpit; saltwater biofuel; flow-control wing; F-16s fly biofuel.

Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told reporters Jan. 18 that the experimentation campaign will continue and details will be revealed in the fiscal 2020 budget request.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 has resumed science observations.

A collaborative assessment concludes that samples of two Martian moons could be gathered robotically and returned to Earth without a biohazard threat.

Singapore has announced it will acquire a small number of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to prepare for the eventual retirement of its F-16 fleet.

The few known details and the likely choice of engines suggest China’s new tactical bomber will be conceptually like the retired U.S. F-111.

Sounding rocket launches for NASA’s Grand Challenge Initiative-Cusp have been continuing despite the ongoing partial U.S. government shutdown.

The White House has resubmitted four nominations to fill vacancies on the board of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.