In a modest facility at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, a small team of experts leads an effort to develop the dashboard displays that will enable astronauts to interact with Orion.
A new aerospace and defense technology incubator effort comes back to Washington Sept. 27 with a twist: established aerospace and defense companies will pitch funded innovation projects to qualified startups looking for partners.
Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority and the European Aviation Safety Agency are studying whether offshore helicopter safety could benefit from an ETOPS specification to improve system reliability.
Aero-engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce has appointed a new chief financial officer as its continues a shake-up designed to cut costs after profit warnings and concerns from investors.
Development of a deep-space propulsion system that uses hydrogen superheated by a nuclear fission reaction for highly efficient in-space propulsion could move rapidly with enough funding and industry cooperation, according to Todd May, director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC).
Bell Helicopter has unveiled the V-247 Vigilant tiltrotor it is proposing for an emerging U.S. Marine Corps requirement for a ship-based expeditionary endurance unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
A Philippine order for Russian or Chinese armed helicopters is looking likely, following President Rodrigo Duterte’s Sept. 13 statement that Manila would turn to those countries for weapons.
Deals for more F-15s and F/A-18s couldn’t come soon enough for Boeing’s fighter factory in St. Louis, which needs more orders to keep production humming into the 2020s.
The future "KC-Z" tanker could look very different than the large-bodied, commercially derived tankers of today; it could be stealthy, carry missile-shooting lasers, and even fly autonomously.
The Senate committee that authorizes NASA spending adopted bipartisan language on Sept. 21 that would require the next president to maintain the status quo on major NASA exploration programs, at least initially.
India is working to develop a second indigenous aircraft carrier, IAC-2, as it prepares to induct the first one in the next two years, according to a senior Indian navy official.
A pair of longtime lunar exploration advocates say NASA can set up a permanent water-mining base at one of the Moon’s poles with an innovative adaptation of the agency’s planned heavy-lift Space Launch System (SLS) and advanced commercial crew vehicles.
