A cubesat from a team at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, has been selected by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as the first to be launched under the KiboCUBE program.
Raytheon Missile Systems is one flight test away from securing its second production lot for the GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb II, which buys 250 units of the network-enabled, all-weather glide bomb.
An attack version of the Lockheed Martin-Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic trainer aircraft could be next in line to receive an airworthiness appraisal from the U.S. Air Force.
Might launching human explorers to Mars, as NASA hopes to do by the mid-2030s, accelerate the pace of discovery and possibly even settle the question of whether the Red Planet once hosted some form of life and possibly still does?
Two years after its ninth and final flight, Boeing’s high-altitude, long-endurance Phantom Eye UAV subscale prototype is to become an exhibit at the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB in California.
Ukrainian aerospace company Antonov and China’s Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) have signed a cooperation agreement to build a second prototype of the world’s largest aircraft, the An-225 Mriya.
The Pentagon should develop a formal program to regularly recruit workers from commercial autonomy enterprises to serve with the military, especially in operations, according to a new Defense Science Board report.
NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson’s shot at breaking astronaut colleague Jeff Williams’ soon-to-be-established U.S. record for time accumulated in space over a career has just dimmed.
The UK defense ministry has sent its second Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint signals intelligence-gathering aircraft back to the U.S. for repairs following questions about the aircraft’s serviceability.
India is hoping to launch a record 68 satellites in a single mission early next year, taking a giant step in space commerce as it competes for a bigger share of the burgeoning global space market worth billions of dollars.
The FAA lacks a clear process for identifying and coordinating long-term NextGen R&D, according to an audit report by the Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General.
The U.S. Air Force will deploy eight F-15C Eagles to Bulgaria during September to carry out a joint air policing mission in-country, with U.S. fighters taking up the Quick Reaction Alert mission to respond to defense of Bulgarian airspace.
India and the U.S. have signed a bilateral Logistics Exchange Memorandum of Agreement (LEMOA) by which both nations can use each other’s land, air and naval bases for repair and resupply.
The market for nonindustrial robotics, including UAVs, will surge to $226.2 billion by 2021 from $34.1 billion now, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 46%, according to a new report by consulting company Tractica.
