Momentus’s Vigoride-3 deployed four additional satellites to low Earth orbit in July as the company works through anomalies discovered shortly after launching the space tug in May.
NASA is on track to complete work on its first Space Launch System rocket and roll the vehicle out to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B on Aug. 18 ahead of liftoff on the Artemis I flight test.
For now, urban air mobility is focused on small two-four-passenger air taxis. But a UK study suggests that larger, 30-50-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft could be competitive with existing modes of public transportation while reducing emissions and congestion.
UK-based uncrewed aircraft system development house Blue Bear says it has developed a beyond-visual-line-of-sight communication bridge to link with air vehicles too small to carry a BVLOS communication system.
When Gen. James Hecker began his flying career in the U.S. Air Force in the cockpit of an F-15C in the early 1990s, he and his fellow pilots knew exactly what their job would be: Fight the Soviet Union.
The U.S. Air Force during its last premier Red Flag exercise connected multiple ranges across the American West for the first time under a new agreement with the FAA.
The acquisitions mean Slingshot will be able to offer satellite operators a better understanding of the growing number of objects on orbit and other threats.
The U.S. State Department on Aug. 2 approved two major air defense sales to nations in the Middle East: a possible $3.05 billion sale of MIM-104E Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia and a possible $2.245 billion sale of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missiles to the United Arab Emirates.
NASA is updating requirements for future private astronaut missions to the International Space Station based on some lessons learned from the pioneering 17-day Axiom Space-1 mission to the orbital science lab flown in April.
The U.S. Space Force wants to know what the space domain awareness software tracking capabilities industry can provide as it looks to phase out multiple old systems at many operating locations that serve the SDA mission.
The MQ-9 strike in the heart of Kabul that took out al-Qaida’s senior leader was the culmination of almost a year of “over-the-horizon” U.S. counterterror operations, and a sign of how the U.S. wants to operate its Reaper fleet in the future.
An L3Harris/AirTractor team has been selected to supply 75 weaponized versions of the AT-802 crop duster to Air Force Special Operations Command after winning the $3 billion contract for the Armed Overwatch program.
The first of two Blue Origin BE-4 engines earmarked for the debut flight of United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket arrived at the manufacturer’s West Texas facility on July 31 for acceptance testing.
The U.S. Space Force is set to complete its Space-Based Infrared System missile detection and missile warning constellation this week with the launch of GEO-6 set for Aug. 4.
Infrastructure developer Skyports Infrastructure and AirAsia’s Advanced Air Mobility, a unit of AirAsia Aviation Group Limited, have signed a one-year letter of intent to study air taxi infrastructure development in Malaysia.
The U.S. Army has contracted with Wichita State University’s National Institute for Aviation Research to develop a digital twin for its AH-64 Apache attack helicopter, a move that will allow it to build parts faster and at lower cost, officials say. It is the third program of its kind between the Army and NIAR. NIAR previously created “digital twins” or 3D engineering for the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and the M113 armored personnel carrier.
Air Combat Command has developed requirements for an Adversary Aircraft-Unmanned Experimental system, and plans to share the document with a set of selected companies within the next few weeks.
The recent release of the first science imagery from the James Webb Space Telescope provided a spectacular hint of what is to come from the challenging space observatory—dramatic new imagery and scientific insight into the formation of the first stars and galaxies.
This is the summer of supply chain discontent in aerospace and defense, according to widespread laments by top executives in recent quarterly financial updates.
“Outside the F-35, not a single anomaly has been discovered worldwide as a result of the forensic investigation which continues at pace, ” a Martin-Baker official said.
