Italian air accident investigators have successfully extracted data from the combined flight data and cockpit voice recorder recovered from the wreckage of the second prototype AgustaWestland AW609 commercial tiltrotor.
An investigative team using social media and open-source intelligence has identified Russian military personnel potentially connected with the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine in 2014.
Airbus Defense and Space is hoping to deliver more than 20 A400M airlifters this year, but significant risks remain in the delivery of both the aircraft and its military capabilities.
Completion of a joint venture between the launch vehicle divisions of Airbus Defense and Space and Safran S.A. is being held up by regulatory approvals that, if delayed beyond April, could threaten the entry into service of Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6.
Australia will stick to its policy of raising military spending to 2% of gross domestic product (GPD) by fiscal 2023-24 in a defense white paper the government is due to issue on Feb. 25, local media report.
With the U.S. Navy including $13.2 billion across the future years’ defense plan for the first of the Ohio-class strategic submarine replacement force, lawmakers are starting to talk more about the nation’s nuclear deterrence force recapitalization needs.
Record numbers of U.S. men and women — just more than 18,300 — would like to pursue careers as NASA astronauts, according to a tally of applicants who made the Feb. 18 deadline to seek perhaps eight to 14 openings early next year.
Engineers at this NASA field center are developing an operational laser communications concept that would combine radio frequency (RF) and optical communications in a single lightweight unit to deliver streaming video from Mars by the late 2020s.
French defense electronics giant Thales Group achieved a record order intake of €18.9 billion ($20.8 billion) last year and solid growth with turnover of €14.1 billion, boosted in part by several large defense and space contracts signed in 2015.
When research organization Battelle unveiled its DroneDefender counter to small UAVs at the Association of the U.S. Army show in Washington last October, the Internet went wild.
India has successfully tested its first indigenously developed and most powerful cryogenic rocket engine, moving a step closer to launching heavier satellites into orbit.
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have been awarded contracts for the next stage of a Darpa program to develop a guided projectile that would give medium-caliber guns missile-like accuracy against unmanned aircraft, rockets and fast attack craft.
With the deadline for hobbyists to register their small UAVs now past, the FAA will find out which of its approaches – education or enforcement – will have the most beneficial impact on airspace safety.
