Lockheed Martin and Omnispace, a startup targeting satellite-enabled 5G communications, on March 23 announced a “strategic interest agreement” to explore 5G business opportunities from space, and possibly creating the first dual-use commercial- and government-serving platform.
Metal 3D-printing startup Velo3D, which has targeted the aerospace and defense sector as a key customer, will become a publicly traded company in a reverse merger announced March 23 with blank-check company Jaws Spitfire Acquisition.
The future of the ground-based air defense system formerly known as Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) appears fragile after procurement of the system by the German government was put on ice.
UK aerospace maintenance firm Marshall Aerospace says it is “disappointed” about the UK government’s decision to retire its Lockheed C-130J Hercules fleet.
The Norwegian government has prohibited the sale of Rolls-Royce's marine powerplant division Bergen Engines to the international arm of a Russian company.
The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee believes Democrats will try to kill the U.S. Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the upcoming budget cycle, but is confident there is not enough support for the strategy to be successful.
Electronics manufacturer Ametek on March 22 announced it has agreed to acquire Abaco Systems, a provider of embedded computing systems for aerospace and defense, among other sectors, from Veritas Capital in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.35 billion.
After a two-day delay to conduct additional ground equipment checks, the Soyuz 2.1a rocket flew through clouds above the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 2:07 a.m. EDT on March 22.
A bidding war is breaking out over military trainer and C4ISR provider Cubic, with a new bid worth around hundreds of millions of dollars more emerging from Singapore Technologies Engineering, Cubic acknowledged March 22.
A Boston startup is taking a new look at wing-in-ground-effect vehicles through the lens of distributed electric propulsion, advanced flight control and hydrofoil lifting surface technology.
The U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is the rare example of an acquisition style that mirrors the operating concept of the technology being developed.
The UK will invest another £2 billion ($2.77 billion) in the development of its Tempest Future Combat Air System and will purchase more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters beyond the 48 currently planned, a review of the country’s defense posture has determined.
NASA’s nearly two-decade-long push to establish game-changing commercial partnerships in low Earth orbit operations to expand human exploration and scientific research and grow the economy is broadening its scope to include a new role for private sector communications and navigation assets and services.
Glynn Lunney, a member of the Space Task Group that launched NASA’s human spaceflight operations and the flight director remembered for leading the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew, has died at 84.
The anti-surface Joint Strike Missile (JSM) manufactured by Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace performed a series of successful test drops from a U.S. Air Force F-35A at Edwards Air Force Base, California in February.
The first production EA-18G delivered in 2007 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, became the first aircraft inducted into the Operational, Safety and Improvement Program.
International Space Station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineers Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Kate Rubins boarded their Russian Soyuz MS-17 on March 19 and undocked from the orbital outpost, reparking 34 min. later at a different module to clear the preferred port for the arrival of the next crew.
President Joe Biden on March 19 nominated former three-term Sen. Bill Nelson, (D-Fla.), to serve as the 14th administrator of NASA, succeeding fellow former U.S. legislator Jim Bridenstine, whose nomination Nelson opposed.
Airbus has signed a new cooperation deal with Romania’s Industria Aeronautică Română (IAR) which could see the Romanian company customize, service and support H145M twin-engine light multirole helicopters.
The first fully commercial space launch of the Russian Soyuz 2.1a vehicle in 2021, planned for March 20, is expected to orbit 38 various satellites from 18 countries into three different Sun-synchronous orbits.
The U.S. Navy on March 19 published a sources sought notice to identify potential contractors for integrating hypersonic Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) missiles on Zumwalt-class destroyers.
Russia’s United Aircraft Corp. on March 17 announced an agreement with Aviation Engineering Zrt for license production of the Ilyushin Il-103 light multipurpose aircraft in Hungary.
