Canadian researchers are warning engine makers that high-altitude ice crystal buildup and shedding, a growing challenge in modern powerplants, could threaten future propulsion systems of more efficient, unconventional aircraft configurations which may be vulnerable to the phenomenon.
The Chinese YJ-18 anti-ship missile made its first public appearance in the country’s Oct. 1 National Day parade, several years after its reported first deployment.
Alphabet company Wing is playing down Australian media criticism of noise from its drone delivery operations as it prepares to launch its latest commercial service in Logan, south of Brisbane in Queensland.
Advanced composites provider Gurit announced Oct. 1 that it will close one of its aerospace business sites, in Zullwil, Switzerland, and concentrate work at its Kassel, Germany, center by the end of 2021.
World View Enterprises Inc. has exceeded by more than two days its goal of a 30-day demo Stratollite balloon mission for sustained navigational stratospheric flight.
China unveiled a hypersonically gliding surface-to-surface missile, the DF-17, at its national day parade on Oct. 1, saying the weapon is non-nuclear and has the powerful ability to penetrate defenses.
The USAF's Space and Missile Systems Center and the NRO has awarded a $1.18B sole-source contract modification to the United Launch Alliance to support five Delta IV heavy launches over five years.
The U.S. Air Force is conducting market research on “capable industry sources” for providing two separate follow-on sustainment services contracts to the current Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), but is open to considering a teaming approach.
High altitude long endurance aircraft and High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites have attracted the U.S. Force Service’s interest for monitoring wildfires and relaying communication signals.
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Woburn, Massachusetts, has been awarded a modification on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract HQ0147-18-D-0002.
A NASA contract has provided confirmation that a turbine-based combined-cycle (TBCC) engine under development by DARPA to power reusable hypersonic vehicles is built around a Rolls-Royce Adour turbofan.
The U.S. Marine Corps intends to accelerate the Unmanned Logistics System-Air effort by conducting a prize challenge competition in late January 2020 at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
China’s state space-launcher industry is turning to private enterprise for propulsion technology in an apparent attempt to overcome long development cycles.
Link Space is working toward a 2022 first flight of a reusable rocket intended to place 180-kg payloads in Sun-synchronous orbits for a price of 20 million yuan ($2.8 million).
NASA has selected 14 companies under its Space Technology Mission Directorate’s tipping point initiative to help advance key tech on six fronts needed to achieve its human deep space exploration ambitions.
BAE has completed final assembly of around 240 production Typhoons, and is gearing up to begin assembly for the Qatar Emiri Air Force, the first of which will be delivered in 2022.
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Kounotori H-II Transport Vehicle (HTV) reached the International Space Station (ISS) early Sept. 28 to deliver more than four tons of crew supplies and equipment.
