North America Alenia Aermacchi is in talks with a new U.S. partner for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X advanced trainer program, and a deal should be announced “very soon.” The company’s T-100 trainer proposal, based on the M-346, has been in limbo since its original partner, General Dynamics, backed out in March.
A discussion of the Long-Range Strike Bomber (LRSB) program in Washington on Aug. 13 demonstrated how the secrecy surrounding the project and its precursors continues to block effective public discussion of what is expected to be a $90 billion program.
“The bone of contention is mainly over the cost escalation and offset clause,” a defense ministry official says. “Both the governments are trying to iron out these issues at the earliest.”
Pilots have reported seeing unmanned aircraft more than 650 times so far this year, the FAA says, a dramatic increase over the 238 sightings reported in all of 2014.
Could spacecraft-to-spacecraft power beaming place satellites in orbit more quickly, particularly cubesats too small for conventional propulsion systems?
The agency this week is issuing three concept development contracts for the new Multiple Object Kill Vehicle (MOKV) program, one each to Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Boeing.
Europe’s Rosetta comet chaser is about to enter what may be the mission’s most exciting science phase yet as Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko spins closer to the Sun than it has since 2009.
Several securities law firms say they are investigating claims on behalf of investors in Precision Castparts Corp. about the company’s acquisition by Berkshire Hathaway.
The U.S. Navy could cut its purchases of the Lockheed Martin F-35C Joint Strike Fighter carrier variant to as few as 12 aircraft a year through the 2020s, compared with 20 per year under the program of record.
With an NSF grant of $6 million for the Cloud Map project, a team of four universities will develop an integrated unmanned aircraft system to monitor and investigate the lower atmosphere.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed contracts for the development of the new Ariane 6 heavy lift vehicle, a new Ariane 6 launch facility and development of an upgrade to the Italian-led Vega light launcher.
The Polish defense ministry is defending its selection of the Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal after a Polish magazine claimed government officials had broken procurement regulations.
The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 6 USS Jackson, the first of the block-buy LCS vessels, at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, earlier this month.
There is no shortage of inventive ideas in the commercial unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) sector, but many of them go well beyond what civil aviation regulators are expected to allow for the foreseeable future.
The electric sail under study at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center could reach the edge of the Solar System in less than 15 years--a trip that took the Voyager spacecraft 36 years.
HOUSTON — Ad Astra Rocket Co. will attempt to raise the technical readiness level of its Vasimr plasma rocket engine through prolonged ground trials under the terms of a potential three-year, $9 million fixed price contract administered through NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) initiative.
The aircraft, assigned to the 480th Fighter Squadron from Spangdahlem AB, went down in woodlands near the town of Engelmannreuth in northern Bavaria shortly after 9:30 a.m. The pilot ejected safely
Reduced activity in the oil and gas industry caused by a fall in energy prices is continuing to weigh heavily on helicopter operators that support energy companies.
