An ad hoc coalition of a dozen industrial and academic organizations with an interest in spaceflight plans to press its case for a steady course in U.S. space spending and policy across the political spectrum in the coming election.
Aurora Flight Sciences’ LightningStrike vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) X-plane will be “very challenging to demonstrate, but has the potential to move the technology needle farthest” for vertical flight, says Darpa program manager Ashish Bagai.
The U.K. and French governments have agreed to spend €2 billion ($2.19 billion) on the development of a joint unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator to fly by around 2025.
The U.S. Navy's current operations of the CVN-74 USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group in the South China Sea is sending a message to U.S. allies, friends and potential adversaries.
The U.S. Navy says it recently conducted a successful demonstration of the surface-to-air Standard Missile-6 Block I (SM-6 Block I) from DDG 53 USS John Paul Jones off the Hawaiian coast.
The U.S. Navy needs to re-evaluate the way it uses contract guarantees to hold contractors responsible, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says.
U.K. defense ministers say they have secured agreements from France to consider the MBDA Brimstone air-to-surface missile for the French army’s fleet of Tiger attack helicopters.
United Launch Alliance (ULA) is using U.S. Air Force funds to integrate the Aerojet Rocketdyne AR1 engine into a kerosene-fueled variant of its planned Vulcan launch vehicle, but will use it only if Blue Origin falls seriously short of a development schedule that currently would hot-fire the methane-fueled BE-4 by the end of this year.
U.S. helicopter service provider Era Group has become the third operator to sign up to develop new missions for the AgustaWestland AW609 commercial tiltrotor.
White House science advisor John Holdren pledged support for NASA’s human Mars exploration ambitions as part of a Washington homecoming delegation that greeted U.S. space marathoner Scott Kelly here early March 3.
The assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition and the chief of naval operations are seeking a special review of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fleet to better determine how to crew and operate the ships.
Seeker Aircraft will begin manufacturing its light observation aircraft in the U.S., the company said. It was previously manufactured only in Australia.
The U.S. Navy may want to get as many operational F-35 Joint Strike Fighters as it can into the fleet as soon as possible, but it also needs to keep the F-18 aircraft line up and running to meet potential tactical aircraft shortfalls down the road, officials say.
Finmeccanica Helicopters is days away from conducting the first flight of its AW109 Trekker, the skidded version of its AW109 twin-engine light helicopter.
Space marathoners Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko said March 2 they felt glad to be back on Earth after 340 days aboard the International Space Station.
