A little-known technology development program involving secret unmanned aircraft systems has helped to seed the air vehicles available for the AFRL's pioneering Skyborg program.
The U.S. Air Force is on the hunt for attritable aircraft to round out its inventory, but the service may already have what it needs in the MQ-9, according to the manufacturer.
NASA is removing a planned secondary payload from the August 2022 launch of its Psyche asteroid probe, leaving a pair of small satellites without a piggyback ride to Mars.
The FAA’s plan to amend the collision-avoidance methodology it uses in licensing commercial space launches will support safer operations with more flexible launch windows as space at low Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested, the agency says.
Working with Nanoracks, LLC, NASA is about to mark a milestone in its push to transition oversight of human scientific research and tech development in low Earth orbit to the private sector as it sets its sights on the Moon and Mars.
Turkish unmanned aircraft system developer Baykar Makina has carried out the first flight of its Cezeri ducted multicopter electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
The Speed Racer project harkens back to the Skunk Works' origins as the company that built the first XP-80 in 143 days and the first U-2 in less than nine months.
Kopter Group is moving the prototype of its SH09 single-engine light helicopter back to the company’s home base in Switzerland following an extensive flight test campaign in Sicily.
Leonardo is proposing a military variant of its AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter for Poland as a replacement for the country’s aging W-3 Sokol and Mi-2 rotorcraft.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has accomplished what it described as the world’s first successful landing of a UAV at a major airport while integrating the vehicle into commercial traffic.
With 15 days left in the fiscal year, the U.S. Air Force and Space Force have not sent Congress a wish list of waivers to make living without a new appropriations bill easier.
At least 220,000 jobs in the U.S. tied to the aerospace and defense industry could be lost as civil manufacturers see international aircraft production potentially halved in the wake of COVID-19, the industry’s most prominent trade group revealed in its latest annual factbook.
Verizon Skyward and French manufacturer Parrot have partnered to offer a drone training and operations management package based on Parrot’s Anafi USA quadcopter, the companies announced Sept. 15.
National support from the UK and a need to retain basing flexibility has prompted U.S. Air Force commanders to reverse the decision to close RAF Mildenhall, England.
Britain’s Royal Air Force will adopt new technologies to identify and prosecute targets in more locations simultaneously than what is possible today, the air arm’s most senior officer says.
The head of the U.S. Air Force’s mobility fleet needs more data from Boeing on the KC-46 Remote Vision System (RVS) upgrade plan to determine if an interim fix is worth taking the maintenance downtime.
A full-scale flight demonstrator for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance program has already flown in secret and “broken records” in the process, a senior official said on Sept. 15.
Supersonic business jet developer Aerion has selected BAE Systems to develop and integrate a fly-by-wire flight control system for the AS2 high-speed aircraft.
Universal Hydrogen has selected MagniX to provide the electric propulsion system for its planned conversion of the de Havilland Canada Dash 8-300 regional turboprop to hydrogen fuel-cell power.
