Europe has launched a research program to address the need for reliable detection and discrimination of different types of icing condition, to protect aircraft against supercooled large droplets (SLDs)
The U.S. Air Force absolved the Embraer A-29’s flying characteristics from blame after investigating the cause of a crash during the Light Attack Experiment last June that killed a U.S. Navy pilot.
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The flight was crewed by Virgin Galactic chief pilot Dave McKay alongside lead trainer pilot Mike Masucci, with Beth Moses, chief astronaut instructor, monitoring conditions in the passenger cabin.
After U.S. President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to a establish combatant command for space the department has determined it is not feasible unless a law is repealed and is petitioning Congress for help.
NASA has selected a dozen small science and technology demonstration payloads that could be launching to the surface of the Moon using new commercial launch transportation services as soon as the end of 2019.
An Earth-imaging satellite owned by Egypt reached orbit on Feb. 21 despite a glitch with its Russian Soyuz-2 launcher, a problem that is delaying next week’s flight for OneWeb.
An privately owned Israeli spacecraft hitched a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Feb. 21, aiming to become the first commercial expedition to the surface of the Moon.
BAE Systems has warned that Germany’s unilateral arms embargo on Saudi Arabia could have a damaging effect on the company’s future financial performance and relationships.
Hard on the heels of Boeing making a significant investment in Aerion, one of its biggest suppliers has signed on to design the forward fuselage for the supersonic business jet developer’s Mach 1.4 aircraft, the AS2.
Airbus hopes to fly its CityAirbus electric vertical takeoff and landing urban air mobility demo aircraft in March after a series of successful ground runs.
India’s state-run military airframer HAL is offering a naval variant of its Dhruv light helo in response to the Indian Navy’s requirement for 111 utility helos.
The U.S. Navy is creating an unmanned maritime autonomy architecture to provide overarching standards for platforms so that there are not multiple conflicting systems.
In the quest to provide commercial suborbital spaceflight services to paying passengers, Blue Origin’s New Shepard has one clear advantage over Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, notes Blue founder Jeff Bezos: It flies higher, rendering moot a debate about the boundary of space.
