Dawn, NASA’s 11-year, first-ever mission to orbit two relics from the formation of the Solar System’s planets in the main asteroid belt, is drawing to a close.
India’s state-run National Aerospace Laboratories and New Delhi-based Mesco Aerospace Ltd. are developing a two-seater aircraft for pilot training and surveillance.
The State Dept. has OK'd the sale to Japan for up to nine Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft for $3.1 billion.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully placed the Telestar 18 Vantage/APSTAR 5C comm sat in a geostationary transfer orbit Sept. 10 after launch from Cape Canaveral.
Having taken delivery of the last four Embraer EMB 313/A-29 Super Tucano light-attack and reconnaissance aircraft, Lebanon has now announced a further $120 million defence aid package from the United States. Jon Lake reports.
Where the Pentagon is focusing cutting-edge RandD and what Boeing is telling investors about its airplane production crunch are the focus of this week’s discussion.
The U.S. Marine Corps is quietly debating whether to own and operate its own MQ-9 Reaper fleet to build a cadre of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators.
DARPA has returned to the stratospheric domain with a project aimed at demonstrating that a lighter-than-air balloon can drift between wind layers to navigate at altitudes up to 90,000 ft. for days or weeks at a time.
The DOD will begin having “consultations” with congressional leadership on establishing a unified space command, U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.
With completion of development flight-testing, the Lockheed Martin-led team provides a deep dive into the engineering effort behind developing the F-35.
The F-35B exists because of its commonality with the F-35A and F-35C, but all three variants are better aircraft because of the STOVL version challenges.
India’s proposed purchase of S-400 missile systems from Russia is seen as unlikely to attract punitive measures from the U.S. as the deal enters its final stages.
Boeing will integrate the Lockheed Martin Legion Pod on U.S. Air Force F-15C fighters under a $208.3 million contract award from the service on Sept. 5.
