A crew medical concern has joined a weather issue in delaying the anticipated launch of NASA’s SpaceX-contracted Crew 3 Dragon mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) until Nov. 6 at the earliest.
A U.S. Air Force A-10 is returning to service more than three years after it was severely damaged during an inflight emergency and belly landing in Michigan, after an extensive rebuild that required remanufacturing components of the attack jet.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said President Joe Biden was “positive” toward the possible sale of new F-16s and upgrades to existing aircraft after the two leaders met over the weekend, as U.S. and Turkish officials separately meet on military cooperation after Turkey was kicked out of the F-35 program.
Spurred by rising space business opportunities, reinsurance and risk management service provider Applied Underwriters on Nov. 1 said it was taking on former PartnerRe Direct and Facultative Space staff for a new Washington-based joint venture called Applied Underwriters Aerospace.
U.S. naval aviation will need to field a next-generation stealth fighter, a carrier-based unmanned combat air vehicle, advanced rotorcraft and an assortment of new long-range missiles and directed energy weapons in 2030-2035, a newly-released vision document shows.
Amazon said Nov. 1 it will launch the KuiperSat-1 and KuiperSat-2 prototype satellites for its low Earth orbit-based broadband offering via two ABL Space Systems RS1 rockets from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in a year.
Boeing delivered the first KC-46A refueling tanker to the Japan Air Self-Defense Force on Oct. 28, marking the first international delivery for the program.
Barely a month after completing a $100 million series A fundraising round, Chinese startup Autoflight has flown a prototype of its V1500M three/four-passenger electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Launched late Oct. 27 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz 2a.1 rocket, the MS-18 freighter—designated Progress 79 by NASA—docked to the ISS on Oct. 29 at 9:31 p.m. EDT.
The planned SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon launch of four U.S. and European astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) has been delayed to early Nov. 3 from Oct. 31 due to predicted rough winds and sea conditions along the flight corridor off the U.S. East Coast.
The U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs on Oct. 28 conducted the second successful test of the First Stage Solid Rocket Motor, which will power the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike and the U.S. Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon.
An extended legal battle over the fate of a major electronic warfare program will continue after the U.S. Navy defied an official recommendation and reaffirmed a disputed contract award to L3Harris for the Next Generation Jammer-Low Band pod.
NASA and Russian’s space agency are about a year away from implementing a flight crew swap agreement, Kathy Lueders, the agency’s associate administrator for space operations, told an Oct. 29 Crew-3 preflight news briefing.
The Pentagon’s approach to stop the threat of counter-small UAS has been bogged down in Defense Department bureaucracy and laws that approach the problem in the wrong way, while commercial drone developers have outpaced the military’s efforts, the No. 2 uniformed official said.
Small-satellite startup Terran Orbital, backed by Lockheed Martin and others, plans to become a publicly traded company after a reverse merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, the companies announced late Oct. 28.
The Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, an operator of air and sea links to the archipelago off the coast of southwest England, has forged an agreement to bring zero-emission hydrogen flights to the islands.
As NASA’s Commercial Crew initiative matures, it is accelerating the turnaround of timely science experiments and technology development related to the future human exploration of the Moon and Mars, researchers say.
Small-satellite startup Terran Orbital, backed by Lockheed Martin and others, plans to become a publicly traded company after a reverse merger with a special-purpose acquisition company, the companies announced late Oct. 28.
