CEO and President Eileen Drake is continuing the trimming and reorganization of Aerojet Rocketdyne, with the company announcing June 27 it will consolidate its six business units into two, Space and Defense.
A Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion helicopter successfully lifted the equivalent of two up-armored Humvees during recent testing in West Palm Beach, Florida.
NASA’s Curiosity rover, nearing the fourth anniversary of its drama-filled landing on Mars, has detected an unexpected mineral in the rock it is sampling as it methodically climbs Mount Sharp.
Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.
Raytheon has completed a key test milestone in developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS OCX, proving the ground control segment’s ability to securely transfer information between government agencies.
The first launch of a Long March 7 rocket on June 25 has opened an intensely busy 12-month period for the Chinese space program, with at least four more major missions scheduled for execution by mid-2017.
The lead aircraft of a U.S. Army program to upgrade Beechcraft King Air 350ER-based MC-12Ws to the multimission Emarss airborne reconnaissance standard has flown for the first time.
The head of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has renewed his commitment to fielding an AC-130 “mini arsenal plane” equipped with a high-energy laser by the turn of the decade.
NASA has awarded the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) a five-year, $196.3 million contract extension for operations of the 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope (HST) through the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore.
India’s Nag—an indigenously-made, third-generation, anti-tank guided missile—is being prepared for induction into the country’s military forces, but with a slightly reduced range.
The Team Spartan joint venture proposing the Italian-built Leonardo C-27J to replace Canada’s outdated Lockheed Martin C-130 and de Havilland DHC-5 Buffalo search-and-rescue fleets has proposed Comox, British Columbia, as its aircrew and maintainer training hub.
Airbus Defense & Space has been asked to begin sounding out potential possibilities for a German requirement to replace its Panavia Tornado combat aircraft in the 2030s-40s.
The benefit of automotive safety features in general aviation have persuaded the FAA to grant Terrafugia a waiver of weight and stall-speed limits so it can self-certify its Transition flying car as a light sport aircraft.
Sierra Nevada expects to deliver the Dream Chaser atmospheric test vehicle in August to NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California for a new phase of drop tests.
As part of Israel’s push to maximize the autonomy of its new fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the country will develop its own cybersecurity system for the Lockheed Martin jets.
The U.S. Marine Corps sees mobile ground laser systems as a promising short-term technology for countering UAS threats and plans to develop the weapons over the long term to take out rockets, artillery and missiles, a high-ranking Marine says.
