Chinese space group Casc plans to begin a commercial orbit-and-recovery service in 2019, with about 15 more launches planned in the following six years.
Extant Aerospace has completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets and tech data rights from the operations of NavCom Defense Electronics.
India’s national space agency will test fly its first small rocket, the Small Satellite Launch Vehicle, in the first half of 2019, a senior space scientist says.
A disrupted acquisition of Welding Metallurgy Inc. by CPI Aerostructures will move forward and could close as soon as this year after a court-ordered arrangement with seller Air Industries.
Moon Express has raised $10 million of a planned $20 million Series B round of financing, as well as $2.5 million in bridge financing, the company said Oct. 1.
Boeing’s efforts to develop the core stage of the SLS are in step with efforts to prepare the Orion crew module for an unpiloted multiweek test launch around the Moon by mid-2020.
Sikorsky’s industry-funded S-97 Raider has exceeded 200 kt. in flight testing as the company prepares to offer the high-speed helicopter for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA).
Under the FARA competitive prototype program, also dubbed FVL Light or Capability Set 1, the U.S. Army anticipates awarding four to six initial contracts in June 2019
A 2.1-lb. DJI Phantom 2 quadcopter drone tore a hole in the leading edge of a light aircraft wing in a simulated 238-mph midair collision in ground tests.
The European-built power and propulsion module for NASA’s Exploration Mission-1 is scheduled to leave the Airbus Defense and Space manufacturing facility in Bremen, Germany, on Oct. 29 for Kennedy Space Center.
Bell has teamed with Garmin International to develop the autonomous vehicle management computer for its on-demand mobility vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
“We’re working hard to get this done this year," a SpaceX official says. "At this time the Falcon might be ready, but we might still have some paperwork on the certification side."
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has done it for a third time—successfully delivering a small lander spacecraft to the surface of an asteroid.
On Wednesday Japan’s Hayabusa 2 asteroid probe is due to deploy its third lander to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu—the German/French Mascot hopper/rover.
