The Houthis’ use of ballistic and cruise missiles against the Saudi Arabian-led coalition in Yemen could inadvertently widen the conflict, a study by the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies warns.
Representatives from the three commercial Human Lander System developers recently chosen by NASA to shuttle future astronauts from lunar orbit to the Moon’s surface are expressing confidence that their efforts can help the agency achieve the White House goal of returning to the Moon with astronauts in 2024 and establishing a sustainable presence.
The first Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. (AIDC) AT-5 advanced trainer flew at Taiwan’s Ching Chuan Kang Air Base on June 10, meeting a schedule target set two years ago.
A consortium of Belgian, French, German, Italian and Polish companies and research institutes has been selected to begin research on electromagnetic railguns.
Japanese telecommunications operator SoftBank remains committed to AeroVironment’s high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS) unmanned aircraft, the latter’s top executive said.
Last week’s Russian Defense Ministry contract with Sukhoi for 20 Su-34 Fullback fighter-bombers is an interim step until development of a modernized variant is completed, an industry source tells Aerospace DAILY.
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill, if passed, would be a big win for the F-35, MQ-9, X-58 and the U.S. Army’s UH-60 replacement.
NASA has awarded Astrobotic a $199.5 million contract to deliver the Volatiles Investigation Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) to the Moon’s south pole in 2023, where it will search for water ice deposits that could be useful to future astronauts.
The Senate Armed Services Committee blocked the Pentagon’s request for a U.S. Space National Guard and did not address space acquisition in its mark of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill because the Defense Department did not submit information requested in time for debate, according to a committee aide.
Aerostructures giant Spirit AeroSystems, the leading supplier to the Boeing 737 MAX program, is furloughing more workers after the OEM recently told it to cut o
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill would establish a Pacific Deterrence Initiative, authorizing $1.4 billion to defend U.S. interests against China.
Slovenia’s Pipistrel has received its first type certificate for an all-electric aircraft, with the Velis Electro two-seat trainer receiving CS-LSA certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).
Empirical Systems Aerospace (ESAero) is conducting fit checks with an advanced wing for NASA’s X-57 electric propulsion demonstrator as the X-plane progresses toward a first flight at Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards AFB in California.
The Pentagon is likely to seek double-digit billions of dollars to reimburse defense contractors that were authorized to seek the money by the CARES Act to preserve their workforce during the COVID-19 crisis, the Pentagon’s top procurement officer told lawmakers June 10.
Expectations for a March 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are fading, agency officials told a June 10 virtual meeting of the National Academies of Sciences’ Space Studies Board (SSB).
