Dawn, NASA’s 11-year, first-ever mission to orbit two relics from the formation of the Solar System’s planets in the main asteroid belt, is drawing to a close.
India’s state-run National Aerospace Laboratories and New Delhi-based Mesco Aerospace Ltd. are developing a two-seater aircraft for pilot training and surveillance.
The State Dept. has OK'd the sale to Japan for up to nine Northrop Grumman E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft for $3.1 billion.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully placed the Telestar 18 Vantage/APSTAR 5C comm sat in a geostationary transfer orbit Sept. 10 after launch from Cape Canaveral.
The U.S. Marine Corps is quietly debating whether to own and operate its own MQ-9 Reaper fleet to build a cadre of unmanned aircraft system (UAS) operators.
DARPA has returned to the stratospheric domain with a project aimed at demonstrating that a lighter-than-air balloon can drift between wind layers to navigate at altitudes up to 90,000 ft. for days or weeks at a time.
The DOD will begin having “consultations” with congressional leadership on establishing a unified space command, U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.
