Concerned that funding support for the Pentagon’s Future Vertical Lift (FVL) initiative is inadequate, a House Armed Services panel’s markup of the fiscal 2017 defense budget would require the U.S. Army to report on technology development efforts by January 2017.
Hanwha Thales has been selected to develop a prototype radar for the Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) KF-X fighter, beating rival LIG Nex1, a company that previously seemed to be the country’s anointed fighter-radar specialist.
U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly flashed his wit and shared his insights into the challenges of long-duration human spaceflight when he and his International Space Station crew mates were honored April 20.
The U.S. Navy completed a milestone earlier this month with the installation of the first UAV command center aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Carl Vinson.
After “tough sledding” in the business jet market in January and February, March and April have shown recovery, Textron’s top executive said during a conference call about first-quarter earnings.
A House Armed Services panel on tactical aviation is prioritizing the need for combat fighters by asking the U.S. Air Force to investigate an F-22 Raptor revival and fund an increase in the requested number of F-18 and F-35 fighters in its markup of the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill.
Israel’s Iron Dome is designed to protect against short-range rockets, artillery shells and mortar rounds, but in an April 14 test the system’s Tamir interceptor shot down a UAV after launch from the U.S. Army’s Multi-Mission Launcher (MML).
India will launch its final navigation satellite on April 28, forming a complete system that will provide accurate position information service to the country’s users.
Citing pent-up demand for suborbital flights for research, microgravity manufacturing and education, a Texas-based company has signed a five-year agreement with Spaceport America in New Mexico to begin commercial flights of its reusable suborbital launch vehicle later this year.
A plug-and-play sense-and-avoid system using a single camera for detection and tracking has been flight tested under a Darpa program to develop a drop-in kit that can automate cockpit tasks and reduce crew requirements in manned aircraft.
The U.S. Army is seeking solutions from industry on position, navigation and timing (PNT) systems that will be more robust than single-frequency GPS signals from space.
Bright features that hint at the presence of a briny subsurface water source leap from fresh images of the cratered terrain of the large main belt asteroid Ceres, which is undergoing unprecedented orbital scrutiny from NASA’s Dawn mission spacecraft.
Startup spacecraft manufacturer OneWeb Satellites has selected an industrial park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida as home to a clean-sheet production facility that will crank out dozens of small broadband satellites each month.
