One of three engines firing to slow the stage’s descent to SpaceX's unmanned landing barge apparently didn’t deliver enough power, triggering a crash, company founder Elon Musk said in a tweet.
NASA’s Spacecraft Fire Experiment, Saffire-1, appears to have burned for several minutes June 14, long enough to generate thousands of images for researchers.
Due to safety concerns about nearby urban areas—as well as increased public awareness following last year's Shoreham Airshow crash—the Red Arrows team will be limited to flypasts only.
KUALA LUMPUR—Deliveries of Malaysia’s four Airbus A400M Atlas airlifters should be complete this year, following acceptance of the third aircraft June 9.
U.S. Air Force secretary Deborah Lee James has again voiced her concern about maintaining competition within the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle program until a suitable substitute for the Russian RD-180 rocket engine is available.
Forecasting costly and potentially deadly high-energy solar storms could improve with the deployment of small-spacecraft constellations, some experts say.
Discussions are ongoing about what type of penalty should be levied on Boeing for missing a contractual timeline to deliver 18 operational KC-46A Pegasus tankers.
Contracts to design an unmanned aircraft that will decompose and disappear within 4 hr. of delivering a payload have been awarded to design and prototyping house Dzyne Technologies and electronics and materials specialist Palo Alto Research Corp. (PARC).
With the MV-22 Osprey proving its worth in operations thus far, program officials are looking for the next set of missions and modifications they say will make the aircraft even more valuable to the future U.S. military force.
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has redeployed its two F-35A Joint Strike Fighters back to the U.S. after the international debut of the aircraft at the air force’s Open Dagen air show.
The MV-22 tiltrotor Ospreys are offering the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy more flexibility than they have with other aircraft, but adapting operations to those new opportunities is creating some logistical support challenges,
LEONARDO-FINMECCANICA on June 9 deliverd last of 30 AERMACCHI M-346s ordered by Israel in 2012. First delivery was in 2014. AIRBUS GROUP completed sale of 0.83 million shares in DASSAULT AVIATION, or around 9.05% of the company’s share capital, for €784m ($883m). INTERNATIONAL LAUNCH SERVICES launched Intelsat 31 satellite aboard ILS Proton rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan June 9 at 13:10 local time.
The special mission aircraft market is expected to grow from $10.5 billion in 2015 to $12.5 billion by 2020, a 3.5% compound annual growth rate, according to a report from ReportLinker. The market exhibits a lucrative growth potential in the Asia-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East regions due to ongoing conflicts and territorial disputes there, the report says. It is further driven by the increase in defense spending in China, India and Brazil. The intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance application is expected to contribute the largest market share during the forecast period.
