France’s aerospace and defense industry saw record sales in 2015 of €58.3 billion ($67.1 million), up 8.5% over the previous year, much of it due to exports that accounted for €39.4 billion, an increase of 14% over 2014.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Russian space agency Roscosmos will delay the second leg of a two-pronged robotic mission to Mars from 2018 to mid-2020, ESA said May 2.
A series of laboratory experiments under simulated Martian environmental conditions may help to explain seasonal changes in the appearance of the Red Planet’s Recurring Slope Linae.
India and France’s long-gestating deal to buy 36 Dassault Rafale fighters may have run into another hurdle, this time in the form of objections from India’s law ministry.
Norwegian investigators probing the fatal crash of a CHC-operated Airbus H225/EC225 on April 29 say it was caused by technical problems, not pilot error.
Australia is budgeting a 2.6% inflation-adjusted rise in defense spending for the fiscal year beginning July 1, underpinning a commitment to lift its military budget to 2% of gross domestic product by 2020-21.
The crew of the guided-missile destroyer DDG 51 USS Arleigh Burke recently launched a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) missile off the coast of Virginia, the U.S. Navy says.
The Mexican navy has deployed Arcturus UAV’s T-20 JUMP fixed-wing vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) tactical unmanned aircraft operationally, the manufacturer says.
RAYTHEON has $90m U.S. Air Force contract for AN/DAS-4 Targeting System. UNIVERSAL AVIONICS SYSTEMS CORP. was selected by U.S. Army to provide avionics for Airborne Reconnaissance Low-Enhanced (ARL-E) program. AEROJET ROCKETDYNE has $67m NASA Advanced Electric Propulsion System (AEPS) contract to develop, qualify and deliver five 12.5-kw Hall thruster subsystems, including thrusters, Power Processing Units, xenon flow controllers.
House lawmakers are supporting two of the U.S. Air Force’s space-launch wishes – to seed a launch vehicle program and to double the number of Russian rocket engines the service can use. The House Armed Services Committee voted to add $100 million to develop a launch vehicle, upper-stage, strap-on motor or related infrastructure in its draft of a bill to authorize defense spending in fiscal 2017. The bill also includes a provision that will allow the Pentagon to use up to 18 Russian-made RD-180 rocket engines; current law caps the number of engines at nine.
A draft of the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill would allow the Pentagon to spend a whopping $10.7 billion to buy new equipment and upgrades inside its war accounts.
Significant reductions in the cost and environmental impact of using composites have been achieved under a European research project and are being transitioned to industry.
While the U.S. Missile Defense Agency conducted key flight and ground tests for the Ballistic Missile Defense System in fiscal year 2015, it did not achieve all its testing goals, the U.S. Government Accountability Office says.
Lockheed Martin is introducing an improved version of its Indago quadcopter small UAV for commercial and defense applications at the Association of Unmanned Vehicle Systems’ Xponential show in New Orleans on May 2-5.
Chinese military moves in the Asia-Pacific could prompt the U.S. to alter its nuclear weapons policy for the region, a recent National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) report says.
The Chinese manned space program proposes to land people on the Moon by 2031-36 as a follow-up to the space station that it will begin launching around 2018.
