NASA is transitioning long-running hypersonic technology studies increasingly toward potential commercial applications and has awarded two new contracts supporting high speed design and propulsion work to Aerion Supersonic and GE Aviation respectively.
British flat-panel satellite antenna systems maker Isotropic Systems, already a recipient of Boeing and venture capital funds, has landed at least $40 million more and plans to double in size as it races toward commercial rollout.
The U.S. is freezing the sales of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia as part of a broader Biden administration policy shift of not supporting the nation’s war in Yemen.
General Atomics, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman won contracts to pursue preliminary design work for DARPA’s LongShot program to develop an air-launched UAV that can employ multiple air-to-air weapons, DARPA announced Feb. 8.
The first of a trio of new spacecraft headed to Mars is nearing a do-or-die 27-min. engine burn on Feb. 9 to trim speed so it can be swept into orbit around the red planet.
An independent report has concluded that neither Ukrainian nor Russian aviation regulators were aware of any potential threats to civil airspace in the lead up to the shootdown of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in July 2014.
Large-scale flight demonstrations are planned in seven countries under a European program to expand its U-space concept of operations for unmanned traffic management to include urban air mobility.
The U.S. Army has conducted an operational assessment with the Rafael Fire Weaver, also known as Smart Trigger, which the Israel Defense Forces fielded with combined arms units up to the battalion level to reduce sensor-to-shooter time.
Two northern hemisphere regions on Mars appear to offer the best prospects for hosting generous deposits of subsurface ice that could serve as a key resource for future human exploration of the red planet, findings from multiple planetary science missions show.
The founding executive of JetBlue Technology Ventures, the airline’s eye-catching corporate venture capital wing, has moved over to take a leadership role at Joby Aviation, one of the fund’s most notable investments and a high-profile urban air mobility startup.
The B-21 Training Systems Innovation Challenge launched on February 1 by the Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) and Air Force Global Strike Command (AFGSC) includes two phases.
A just-completed European research program has advanced technology for structural batteries and supercapacitors that could eventually reduce the safety risks in storing massive amounts of energy onboard electrified aircraft.
The top officers in the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps recently reinvigorated debate surrounding military readiness and recommended adding artificial intelligence (AI) tools to the mix of existing metrics.
OHB System has filed a lawsuit with the Court of Justice of the European Union against the European Commission’s decision to exclude the company from a program creating the second generation of Galileo navigation satellites.
NASA has struck agreements with General Electric and Honeywell to develop technologies for small-core turbine engines that burn less fuel and produce more power than current turbofans powering commercial aircraft.
A “special notice” published on Feb. 2 by the Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions Project Office defines a plan to stage of shoot-off of candidate designs in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2022.
Firefly Aerospace has won a $93.3 million NASA task order to provide 10 science and technology payloads in 2023 to help the space agency prepare for human missions to the Moon.
The corporate team demonstrated a prototype form of a sonobuoy dispenser last October to show-off a potential anti-submarine warfare role for the U.S. Navy’s long-endurance, unmanned helicopter.
Times have changed dramatically since the inception of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty that has served to prevent military conflict in space, participants in a forum on the treaty say.
A software framework developed by NASA to ensure autonomous aircraft follow programmed rules of behavior has been delivered to several other agencies for potential application to a range of aircraft, military and civil.
