Scientists assigned to NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft have quantified the red planet’s loss of atmosphere to the forces of the solar wind and radiation.
The head of U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom) says he would consider any use of nuclear weapons against America and its allies by Russia, or any other nation, no matter the explosive yield, a strategic attack.
The chief executive of one of the West’s leading aerospace manufacturers and lessors, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt, has a message for fellow aerospace, defense and aviation business leaders.
Development of the Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 airlifter is complete, 16 years after program launch, says the Japanese defense ministry, declaring the type fit for service.
Malaysia is not ready to buy the Dassault Rafale, despite a renewed push by France to persuade the country to choose the fighter for a current requirement.
BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin have won contracts for training and support of the UK’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighters once the aircraft arrive in the UK in 2018.
Elon Musk achieved a major step toward his goal of lowering the cost of space launch March 30 with the successful relaunch and recovery of a “used” Falcon 9 first stage on a commercial orbital mission.
Heather Wilson said she expects the U.S. Air Force to evaluate the cost of restarting Lockheed Martin’s F-22 production line, and the effectiveness of the Raptor against emerging threats.
NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $32.8m U.S. Navy contract for software and product support for full-rate production Lot 5 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft. SIKORSKY AIRCRAFT CORP. has $32.3m U.S. Navy contract for aircraft spares and manufacturing labor for U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K system demonstration test article.
Blue Originwill receive the 2016 Robert J. Collier Trophy from the National Aeronautic Association “for successfully demonstrating rocket booster reusability with the New Shepard human spaceflight vehicle
North America Canadian company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA), a global communications and information provider, will buy Earth imagery and info provider DigitalGlobe of Westminster, Colorado, for about $2.4 billion.
Two NASA astronauts finished configuration of the Pressurized Mating Adapter-3 outside the ISS’s U.S. segment Node-2 Harmony module during a spacewalk.
The USAF is trying to unshackle itself from the typical all-or-nothing way of buying stealth fighters and return to the glory days of the “Century Series.”
Airbus has dropped plans to produce the E-Fan family of electric light aircraft and instead is working on the larger and more powerful E-Fan X, which could fly within three years.
It might not be as devastating as a tactical nuclear weapon, but the U.S. Army believes the Kinetic Energy Projectile could have the same deterrent effect.
Electrification of aircraft engines is only a decade or two away, so thrust providers must be working now to stay relevant by then, General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt says.
