The lead aircraft of a U.S. Army program to upgrade Beechcraft King Air 350ER-based MC-12Ws to the multimission Emarss airborne reconnaissance standard has flown for the first time.
The head of U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command has renewed his commitment to fielding an AC-130 “mini arsenal plane” equipped with a high-energy laser by the turn of the decade.
NASA has awarded the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) a five-year, $196.3 million contract extension for operations of the 26-year-old Hubble Space Telescope (HST) through the Space Telescope Science Institute of Baltimore.
India’s Nag—an indigenously-made, third-generation, anti-tank guided missile—is being prepared for induction into the country’s military forces, but with a slightly reduced range.
The Team Spartan joint venture proposing the Italian-built Leonardo C-27J to replace Canada’s outdated Lockheed Martin C-130 and de Havilland DHC-5 Buffalo search-and-rescue fleets has proposed Comox, British Columbia, as its aircrew and maintainer training hub.
Airbus Defense & Space has been asked to begin sounding out potential possibilities for a German requirement to replace its Panavia Tornado combat aircraft in the 2030s-40s.
The benefit of automotive safety features in general aviation have persuaded the FAA to grant Terrafugia a waiver of weight and stall-speed limits so it can self-certify its Transition flying car as a light sport aircraft.
Sierra Nevada expects to deliver the Dream Chaser atmospheric test vehicle in August to NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center in California for a new phase of drop tests.
As part of Israel’s push to maximize the autonomy of its new fleet of F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the country will develop its own cybersecurity system for the Lockheed Martin jets.
The U.S. Marine Corps sees mobile ground laser systems as a promising short-term technology for countering UAS threats and plans to develop the weapons over the long term to take out rockets, artillery and missiles, a high-ranking Marine says.
The first of 29 Airbus H135 twin-engine light helicopters for the U.K. Military Flight Training System (MFTS) is set to make its first flight by the end of July.
Airbus Defense and Space is pushing ahead with the development of an automated refueling system to reduce the workload of boom operators on its A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT).
Telecommunications, broadcasting and Earth observation continue to dominate the global space economy, but new technologies and services have the potential to take a larger place at the table, according to the latest report on space industry developments published by the Space Foundation.
The breakup of Japan’s ASTRO-H X-ray astronomy satellite in orbit has been blamed on project management processes at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences (ISAS).
