U.S. Transportation Command has asked launch companies and academics to provide cost estimates for delivering military cargo via space over the next 20 years.
Unlike some planetary destinations, the asteroid Psyche was never the target of a spacecraft flyby before becoming an orbital destination for a $1 billion NASA probe, which is adding to the challenge as the Psyche mission team prepares for a planned launch one year from now.
A request for information for a new aerial target to replicate the latest Russian and Chinese fighters restarts a dialogue that has been dormant since 2019.
Disruptive innovation by startups could play a key role in enabling a sustainable future for aviation, but the sector is barely being considered by investors, the Hamburg-based Sustainable Aero Lab says.
In the last 20 years, the Missile Defense Agency has seen a shift in focus, from spending time defeating missiles that are deploying countermeasures to defending against coordinated attacks with maneuver and speed, MDA director Vice Adm. Jon Hill says.
Increased flight activity during the last quarter boosted TransDigm’s aftermarket sales both sequentially and year-over-year (YOY), yet another positive sign that the sector is in recovery mode.
A new process for producing jet fuel from ethanol with less energy and smaller facilities creates the potential for a distributed processing system located close to biomass sources, according to its developers.
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s early science tasks, called COSMOS-Webb, will be a wide and deep mapping of the 13.7 billion-year-old universe.
The Indonesian research and technology agency BPPT plans to develop a floatplane variant of the PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) N219 Nurtanio turboprop aircraft to foster domestic aerospace research and manufacturing capabilities.
New Zealand regional airline Sounds Air has confirmed its launch orders with Swedish startup Heart Aerospace for an initial three ES-19 electric 19-passenger aircraft.
The U.S. startup’s Electric EEL completed several flights on a representative regional airline route from Kirkwall Airport on the island of Orkney to Wick John O’Groats Airport some 40 mi. away on the Scottish mainland.
Lee Noble, director of NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate’s Integrated Aviation Systems Program, recently updated the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics on the Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration effort.
A Raytheon-designed laser weapon prototype will be fielded to four mobile, short-range air defense platoons by the end of fiscal 2022, U.S. Army officials said on Aug. 18.
Blue Origin’s next New Shepard flight will test the upgraded lidar and descent landing computer NASA is developing to enable lunar landings at sites that were considered too challenging during the Apollo era.
DARPA is interested in WIG vehicle designs that can take off, land and operate in waves up to 4 ft. high, carry a payload of more than 100 tons and cost little to manufacture.
NASA’s nine-year-old Mars Curiosity rover is climbing out of a region rich in clay minerals that likely formed in a warmer, wet era on the now cold and dry red planet to a region dominated by salty minerals called sulfates, the agency said on Aug. 17.
Savi Technology, an asset-tracking specialist once spotlighted by the Pentagon and bought by Lockheed Martin before being spun out, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.
Microsoft will provide the use of its cloud and be a customer to SES for its O3b mPower satellite constellation, which will dramatically improve connectivity for governments and military customers, according to the CEO of SES.
A U.S. Defense Department agency is shopping for a computing system powerful and efficient enough to process and interpret hundreds of terraflops of imagery data from systems on board manned and unmanned aircraft.
Big data analytics disruptor Palantir Technologies and BlackSky, a startup with a burgeoning constellation of imaging satellites and its own data analytics service, are partnering to offer their combined services for allied government customers.
