An accident investigation team identified an issue with the jet’s fuel tube, which is a common component across all three variants of the stealthy fighter.
The booster anomaly was identified shortly after liftoff on Oct. 11, triggering a ballistic re-entry of the capsule and subjecting the crew to higher-than-normal G forces.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NAS) is urging NASA and other organizations involved in the search for life beyond Earth to embrace an approach that recognizes a broader range of scientific and technical disciplines and participants with a stake in the effort.
India has test-launched a short-range Quick Reaction Surface-to-Air Missile, giving another boost to the country’s evolving ballistic missile defense system.
The U.S. Army has awarded L3 Technologies a $454 million, five-year contract to supply Wescam MX-10D sensor systems to upgrade the service’s RQ-7B UAVs.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Oct. 10 that it arrested and indicted a Chinese security officer earlier this year for alleged economic espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from “multiple” U.S. aviation and aerospace companies, including GE Aviation in Ohio.
Boeing has underperformed and overspent in its contractual efforts to develop and produce the first core stages for NASA’s SLS, an agency IG audit says.
Satellites, Earth imagery, geospatial data and analytics provider Maxar Technologies said Oct. 9 it is speeding up its domestication into the U.S. from Canada and expects to complete the process in January 2019.
TransDigm Group’s proposed $4 billion acquisition of rival Esterline Technologies could cement the former in the pantheon of top-tier Western aerospace and defense suppliers and aftermarket providers.
Development by IHI and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency of the Epsilon solid-propellant space launcher is moving rapidly from one major revision to the next.
AeroVironment has teamed up with Washington-based Aerovel to enter the small tactical unmanned aircraft systems market to compete for a U.S. Army contract for a new fleet of Group 2-class UAS.
Aeralis, a British startup looking to develop a new-generation jet trainer, has begun crowdfunding to support the development of a concept demonstrator it hopes to display at a London defense show in 2019.
Britain’s decision to consider a single-source purchase of Boeing’s E-7 airborne early warning platform is being driven by concerns that the existing capability provided by the Boeing E-3 Sentry could soon be outmatched.
The milestone comes before the pending civil certification of the jet-powered, tactical tanker-transport aircraft by Brazil’s civil aviation authority, which is expected “very soon.”
The British defense ministry’s procurement agency has contracted to develop an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) that could rescue personnel who have fallen overboard from naval vessels.
DARPA wants to take robotics underground with a challenge to autonomously search tunnel systems and cave networks for foes in combat or victims of natural disasters.
