The USAF has issued a long-awaited Request for Proposals to industry for contractor operated adversary aircraft to support training of front-line crews.
Future human exploration and science missions are the focus of 15 new techs selected by NASA for further development through its flight opportunities program.
The Qatari government has revealed it will build a second airbase which will likely support the housing of the Gulf state’s rapidly growing fighter fleet.
Flight controllers in Houston and Moscow detected a minute pressure leak aboard the station around 7 p.m. EDT Aug. 29, NASA said in a status report on Aug. 30.
Aside from the New Shepard on display in the lobby of Blue Origin’s new manufacturing plant at Kennedy Space Center, the company has been mostly mum about progress outfitting the factory for production of New Glenn reusable rockets.
India’s first manned space flight, dubbed Gaganyaan, to be launched 40 months from now, will send three humans into space, the country’s top scientist says.
The British defense ministry says there is no danger to the UK’s plan to achieve initial operating capability from land bases with the Lockheed Martin F-35.
The UK has OK'd nearly $129 million in funding to back studies for the design and development of an independent positioning and timing satellite system.
Airborne collision avoidance and tracking system developers Flarm Technology and uAvionix have partnered to supply electronic conspicuity and detect and avoid systems for manned and unmanned aircraft.
The FBI plans to purchase a new Gulfstream G550 ultra-long-range jet from Gulfstream Aerospace to support its Counterterrorism Division and for other missions.
Despite engineering a fix for green glow, a problem that obscures the vision of F-35C pilots during night operations, the U.S. Navy did not use its newly developed pilot helmet during its first, and possibly only, operational test at sea.
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The FAA has granted 1,960 waivers to operators of small UAS—mostly to fly at night—in the two years since its Part 107 reg governing the commercial use of drones took effect.
