NASA’s Juno spacecraft has entered Jupiter’s magnetosphere as it prepares to go into orbit around the gas giant July 4. “We’ve just crossed the boundary into Jupiter’s home turf,” Juno Principal Investigator Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute said in a June 30 NASA announcement.
Cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station successfully re-docked an unmanned Progress cargo capsule early July 1, successfully demonstrating an ungraded Russian manual docking system.
Fifth-generation fighter jets are massive data hubs, designed with advanced sensors that vacuum in critical threat information and disseminate it all over the world.
At least two Southeast Asian air forces have grounded their Airbus H225 Super Puma helicopters in response to a European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) order that does not apply to military operators.
After years of massive cost overruns and schedule delays, Raytheon’s next-generation GPS ground-control segment is now facing a new round of trouble – a Pentagon review about whether the program should continue.
Netherlands-based flying car developer PAL-V has begun taking orders for a commercial version of its design planned to be in flight testing by 2017 and in production by 2018.
The British government needs to be “relatively bold” in order to attract investment from business and stabilize the uncertainty caused by the country’s “Brexit” decision to leave the European Union, according to U.K. aerospace trade organization ADS.
Airbus Group and Safran say they will conclude a merger of their space business units June 30 under the new Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) joint venture.
ABOARD THE USS GEORGE WASHINGTON—U.S. Navy Lt. Christopher Montague was way off the mark for a safe and solid nominal aircraft carrier landing as he approached—high and right of the seesawing carrier deck.
India has successfully test launched a new medium range surface-to-air missile in a latest effort to secure the country’s skies from enemy fighter aircraft and neutralize aerial attacks.
Materials and special manufacturing giant Alcoa will be the sole supplier of proprietary wing skins and fuselage sheet to Embraer for its E2 family of jet airliners under a multiyear $470 million contract unveiled June 30.
Textron Systems hopes to complete end-to-end testing of its Fury small precision-guided munition against a moving target by late summer or early fall as it looks to U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) as the closest step toward widespread integration of the mini weapon with remotely piloted and light attack aircraft.
The U.S. Marine Corps is increasingly relying on aircraft, missile systems and “expeditionary” command and control systems to extend its reach, especially in the remote distances of the Asia-Pacific, says Lt. Gen. John Wissler, commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command.
A trio of Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters has touched down on British soil, two years after a fleet-wide grounding prompted by an engine fire foiled plans for the aircraft’s international debut in the U.K.
