The world’s biggest steel producer, Luxembourg-based ArcelorMittal, has signed a letter of intent to build Europe’s first commercial-scale facility to convert industrial waste gases into biofuel, potentially including jet fuel.
U.S., Russian and Japanese astronauts lifted off for the International Space Station late July 22, prepared to restore the orbiting science laboratory to six-person operations for the first time since June 11.
Redesigns and retrofits required to address a faulty integrated fuel system for the tanker appear to be the cause of the latest cost overrun for Boeing to keep the U.S. Air Force’s KC-46 aerial refueling program on track.
The U.S. Navy awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) a program-spanning contract for submarine work that could be worth up to about $564 million, service officials say.
U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) forces successfully connected and tested a 2-mi.-long temporary fuel transfer pipeline from a U.S. Naval vessel to Anmyeon Beach in South Korea earlier this month as part of the Combined Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore (CJLOTS) 2015 exercise.
Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, embarked aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier CVN 73 USS George Washington, conducted high-intensity land strike training with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) earlier this month in the Timor Sea as part of exercise Talisman Sabre 2015 (TS15).
The U.S. Marine Corps has completed an operational readiness inspection of its first F-35B squadron, the last major hurdle before the service can assess whether VMFA-121 in Yuma, Arizona, is suitable to declare initial operational capability.
The U.K. Royal Air Force has set a target of December 2018 to have the weapons and capability of the Panavia Tornado GR4 fleet integrated into its Eurofighter Typhoon force.
Contract negotiations are underway between India and Dassault Aviation on the Indian air force’s (IAF) planned purchase of 36 Rafale fighters, with the French company agreeing to an extended period of maintenance responsibility for the aircraft.
The audit arm of Congress urges more frequent independent cost and schedule appraisals of the long-running SLS initiative — which has yet to receive a full cost estimate — that NASA is counting on for eventual human missions to Mars.
Lockheed Martin is expecting to propose its Legion pod for a forthcoming U.S. Air Force solicitation to put an infrared search-and-track (IRST) sensor on its legacy F-15C/D fleet.
India has moved a step closer to being able to orbit heavy satellites with another test of its most powerful, indigenously created cryogenic rocket engine.
The Russian air force continues to upgrade its fleet, receiving a total of seven fixed-wing and six rotary-wing aircraft in the second quarter of this year.
The demo took place during the annual Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Virginia, on July 17 and was overseen by the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership using its certificate of authorization as an FAA-designated UAV test site.
The planned $9 billion purchase could be more defining for Lockheed, the Pentagon’s leading prime contractor, than helicopter manufacturer Sikorsky or even the rotorcraft market.
U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah James says SpaceX’s failed Falcon 9 mission on June 28 bolsters the service’s argument to get access to more RD-180 engines from Russia, but she adds that it should not hurt the company’s chances of winning U.S. Air Force work.
