Space launch company Stratolaunch has successfully completed the long-anticipated first flight of its 385-ft.-span, six-engined mothership at Mojave Air & Spaceport.
Celebrations over landing all three of the Falcon Heavy core stages that lofted the Arabsat-6A communications satellite into orbit on April 11 were short-lived: High seas toppled the center stage.
Offshore helicopter operator Bristow Group says it has reached agreements with lenders to delay debt repayments as the company fights to stave off bankruptcy.
A spate of inflight malfunctions involving the DJI Matrice quadcopter that started late last year has generated recent safety investigations in the UK and a safety notice from Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority.
Scientists have confirmed the discovery of the first Earth-sized planet as well as a sub-Neptune world by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which is days from marking the first anniversary of its launch.
The FAA’s regs governing commercial drone operators does not require enough aeronautical experience, the Air Line Pilots Association says in comments on a rule change that would allow drone flights over people.
Maxar Technologies CEO Dan Jablonsky talked with Aviation Week editors Jen DiMascio and Irene Klotz about the company's restructuring and its future prospects.
CAE is offering two new courses for U.S. Army and Air Force aviators at the company’s facility in Dothan, Alabama, for C-12/King Air B200 recurrent/refresher and upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT).
The U.S. Army has selected Collins Aerospace as one of three companies to serve as a mission systems integrator for the Joint Multi-Role mission systems architecture demonstration program.
The AVX Aircraft Company and L3 Technologies have revealed a compound coaxial helo design to compete in the U.S. Army Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft-Competitive Prototype competition.
The U.S. Navy has expanded studies for a Next Generation Land Attack Weapon (NGLAW) to include an air-launched variant for maritime patrol aircraft and fighters.
DARPA selected NORTHROP GRUMMAN to prototype sensing capabilities using undersea organisms to assist in passive detection and tracking under Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors (PALS) program.
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The U.S. Army is to deploy a THAAD system into Romania, where it will temporarily take over missile defense duties from the Aegis Ashore system located there.
