A successful test by an SM-3 IIA on Dec. 10 checks several boxes in the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s plans to deploy Aegis Ashore batteries in Europe and Japan.
Spacewalking cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev labored outside the ISS's Russian segment Dec. 11 to survey the site of the small hole in the Soyuz MS-09 capsule’s habitation compartment that was detected in late August.
Japan’s imminent five-year defense plan will include buying 50 Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightnings, to be followed by a further 50, the Mainichi newspaper says.
Britain’s Defense Science and Technology Laboratory has issued tenders for a study into the creation of a synthetic aperture radar small sat constellation.
A week after NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission spacecraft arrived at the asteroid Bennu, scientists see early signs of a carbon- and water-rich object.
The U.S. Air Force has released a draft solicitation for the second phase of a next-generation rocket competition to deliver National Security Space payloads.
India’s indigenous Light Utility Helicopter reached an altitude of 6 km in recent testing, a critical requirement for the certification of the 3-ton aircraft.
China’s Chang’e 4 lunar probe has conducted a second course correction following its launch from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) has declared MBDA’s Meteor ramjet-powered beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile operational on the Eurofighter Typhoon.
Argentina’s state-owned airframer, Fábrica Argentina de Aviones, is preparing to deliver three IA-63 Pampa III light jet trainers to the country’s air force.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) overcame an unexpected satellite communications interruption early Dec. 8 to proceed with the berthing of SpaceX’s 16th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply capsule.
