U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with China’s defense minister on Nov. 22, pressing China to cut back on increasingly dangerous behavior by Chinese aircraft, though the Pentagon declined to provide any specifics about the incidents.
GKN Aerospace plans to relocate its North American additive manufacturing center of excellence to a larger, 100,000 ft.² facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
The FAA has taken the first rulemaking step toward enabling commercial operations with electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxis, proposing a rule that wo
Operators of Rolls Royce Trent 800-powered Boeing 777s face mandatory fuel pump removals to correct an issue linked to thrust-loss incidents, EASA said.
The missiles were fired from the Maya-class Aegis destroyers JS Maya on Nov. 16 and JS Haguro on Nov. 19 against targets fired from the U.S. Navy Missile Range Facility in Hawaii.
On the eve of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ministerial council, 21 startup companies are requesting that member states approve a resolution for an open competition every time an institutional payload has to be placed into orbit.
Boeing has agreed to Indonesia’s financial package to buy F-15s, and the two sides are in advanced stages of negotiations ahead of a political decision by the c
If a new set of software-enabled tools for battlefield communication proves effective, one of the key challenges facing the DOD's Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept could be swept away.
German space startup Polaris Spaceplanes has performed the first flight of its spaceplane demonstrator built under a contract from the German defense ministry.
Five days into the Artemis I flight test, the Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft soared past the Moon, successfully conducting a 2-min. 30-sec. firing of its shuttle-era maneuvering engine on Nov. 21 to set up a slingshot maneuver into deeper space.
Poland has accepted a German proposal to help protect the country’s airspace after a stray Ukrainian air defense missile crashed in the country last week.
The CEO of Dassault Aviation appears to be disputing German and Spanish claims that an agreement has been reached around progressing to the next phase of FCAS.
SpaceX has delayed by a day the planned launch from the Kennedy Space Center of the company’s 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station, to address a small leak in a thermal control system.
Neither the government nor OEMs are appreciating the scope of the pressure facing the aerospace and defense supply chain, says the president and CEO of Elbit Systems of America.
Airbus, Spain’s Indra and the German government say discussions that will allow the multibillion-euro combat aircraft project to move into the Phase 1B demonstrator period have concluded.
In the run-up to a second captive-carry flight of its Talon hypersonic test vehicle, Stratolaunch says it has begun hot-fire runs of the rocket engine that will power the high-speed testbed on its first Mach 5 flight in early 2023.
