The Swedish government has signed a $47.5 million contract with Saab to ensure that more of the country’s new fleet of Gripen E fighters are new-build aircraft.
A high-temperature airflow test site designed to evaluate a key technology in the Reaction Engines’ hypersonic air-breathing combined cycle Sabre rocket engine is under assembly at Front Range Airport near Watkins, Colorado.
The International Space Station received new opportunities to display its versatility as an orbiting testbed early Dec. 17, with the berthing of SpaceX's 13th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply vessel and 4,800 lb. of crew supplies, science experiments and technology demonstrations.
Three U.S., European and Russian astronauts and cosmonauts descended safely to Earth aboard their Soyuz MS-05 early Dec. 14 to conclude a 139-day tour of duty aboard the International Space Station.
The Pentagon will start ramping up its investments in safer and more reliable cluster munitions that don’t leave unexploded ordnance lying around the battlefield.
Spacesuit researchers are working on a rescue system that would use automated navigation to help a spacewalking astronaut return to safety in an emergency.
NASA must do better at focusing on the health risks astronauts will face if they are to live, work and explore beyond low Earth orbit for extended periods, an assessment says.
RAYTHEON has $302.4m U.S. Navy contract for 618 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) air-to-ground missiles (AGM-154 Block III C), containers, component parts/support equipment (spares) and engineering technical assistance for the government of Saudi Arabia.
If sales of Russian equipment flagged during 2016, the country is working hard to reverse the trend, trying to heavily market its S-400 air-defense system.
The private investor behind the Sea Launch project plans to support the development of future space transportation technologies with the purchase of at least 50 next-generation Soyuz launch vehicles.
A Google neural network has discovered an eighth planet circling the Sun-like star Kepler-90, located in the Draco constellation some 2,500 light years from Earth.
President Trump has signed the fiscal 2018 NDAA, which approved a U.S. cruise missile to countervail a cruise missile that Russia has trained on NATO forces.
Blue Origin engineers, logistics and administrative services employees began moving into a new rocket factory at Kennedy Space Center’s industrial park this week.
The operator of a drone that collided with a Black Hawk failed to see and avoid the helo because he was flying the drone out of visual range, the NTSB says.
Australia will begin handing over 18 surplus Boeing F/A-18A/B Hornets to Canada in 2019, the government in Canberra says, confirming that a sale is planned.
BAE Systems and the University of Manchester have test flown a UAV demo that uses wing circulation control and fluidic thrust vectoring for flight control.
Three U.S., European and Russian astronauts and cosmonauts returned safely to Earth Dec. 14 to conclude a 139-day tour on the International Space Station.
