As their nearly six-month mission to the International Space Station draws to a close, four NASA SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts praised their experience with Axiom-1, the first U.S. all-private astronaut mission to the ISS, and predicted there will be more missions to come.
A four-decade-old Boeing 747-200 simulator that was headed for disposal has been refurbished to train the U.S. Air Force’s Doomsday plane pilots as part of an effort to increase the overall readiness of the four-plane E-4B Nightwatch fleet.
The second phase of DARPA’s Glide Breaker program will seek to conquer the problem of operating a divert and attitude control system on a kill vehicle traveling at hypersonic speed within the atmosphere, the agency says in a newly released solicitation.
Zanite Acquisition has beefed up the committed funding that is backing its planned going-public merger with Eve, Embraer’s urban air mobility spinoff, as it heads into a May 6 shareholder vote on the deal.
Ukraine has added “heavy drones” made by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. to an urgent shopping list of advanced weapons to fight against Russian invaders.
Honeywell has started testing reaction time differences between expert pilots and novices on its prototype simplified vehicle operation cockpit system for electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Russia has agreed to send a Belarusian citizen to space, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko announced after a meeting with Russia President Vladimir Putin at Vostochny Cosmodrome on April 12.
The U.S. Air Force’s surprise plan to cut to its buy of Sikorsky HH-60W helicopters comes as the service is conducting an internal, wargames-based review of what the future of the combat search and rescue mission will become.
The status of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea flagship is unclear after Ukrainian forces claimed to have severely damaged the warship with shore-based anti-ship missiles.
Speaking alongside Sweden’s Prime Minister, Magdalena Andersson, in Stockholm on April 13, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin told journalists that “everything had changed after Russia’s invasion [of Ukraine].”
Indonesian defense prime PT Pindad and Safran are discussing potential local assembly of the AASM air-to-ground modular weapon that will equip the Southeast Asian country’s future Dassault Rafale fleet.
The Air Force Research Laboratory has successfully completed testing of a prototype 1-newton thruster using its Advanced Spacecraft Energetic Non-toxic propellant in a vacuum chamber.
The U.S. Air Force faces a fight on Capitol Hill as it looks to get rid of dozens more of its aircraft while readily acknowledging that comes with instant risk.
The U.S. military is sending 11 more Mi-17 helicopters to Ukraine as part of a dramatic increase in military equipment for the country as it prepares for another phase of its fight against Russia.
In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency’s governing council announced April 13 that it is ending cooperation with Russian space agency Roscosmos on three future Moon missions—Luna 25, 26 and 27.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew 4 Dragon mission to the International Space Station holds promise for the agency’s goals of extending the life and utility of the ISS as well as transitioning its human spaceflight focus to the Moon and Mars.
