A spate of Proton launch mishaps has created a de facto duopoly of Arianespace and SpaceX, two companies vying to dominate the global commercial launch market.
Today, with 48 firm export orders for Rafales that must be produced by 2021, Dassault will gradually ramp-up production at its Merignac assembly facility in southwestern France.
Raytheon's AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 has begun operational testing with the U.S. Navy on F/A-18 Super Hornet and is expected to be fielded to the fleet in 2016.
Coupling Rafael’s latest reconnaissance and targeting pods with scene-matching electro-optical-guided weapons enables air forces to tighten targeting cycles from days and hours to a few seconds.
Export customers for the F-35 are being pushed to commit to a multiyear buy, as soon as next year. But some are far from ready to do so, and the proposal represents a departure from U.S. procurement policy.
The French government reiterated its formal approval of the sale of state ownership in the Arianespace launch consortium to Airbus Safran Launchers, a joint venture set up to develop and produce Europe's next-generation Ariane 6 launch vehicle
Sierra Nevada is teaming up with Turkish engineering firm STM to restart production of the Dornier 328 turboprop and 328Jet regional airliners in Turkey.
After selling all eight Dornier 228s batch built in a new-generation configuration, RUAG Aviation (Chalet 120, Static A5, Hall 4 B77) is reconfiguring its supply chain to deliver a minimum of four and up to 12 of the 19-seat aircraft every year, beginning in 2016. And the MRO-specialist-turned-OEM is offering a range of gap-bridging solutions to ensure its product remains competitive on delivery timescale.
In the scramble to compete for a chance to build such cutting-edge constellations, established satellite makers accustomed to producing a handful of high-dollar spacecraft each year have already learned a few things from Silicon Valley
With construction complete, the Airbus A320 Family Assembly Line at the Mobile Aeroplex will be nearing start-up by the time the Paris Air Show begins.
Sikorsky’s “big bet” on the future of rotorcraft took an important step forward on May 22, when the S-97 Raider high-speed helicopter made its first flight.
Fifteen of the top 25 aerospace companies have operations in Ontario. Long-time tenants Bombardier Aerospace, Airbus, Finemeccanica, General Dynamics and Messier-Bugatti-Dowty were joined in recent years by heavy hitters such as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries whose division, MHI Canada Aerospace, makes airframe parts in Mississauga.