Defense and Space

NASA has rescheduled one in a series of Green Run tests of the Space Launch System rocket’s core stage at Stennis Space Center.

MAGELLAN AEROSPACE delivered its 200th shipset of F-35 (CTOL variant) horizontal stabilizer assemblies to BAE Systems.

PwC reports there were 121 aerospace and defense M&A deals valued at $10b in 3Q20 vs 107 worth $12b in 3Q19; it says recent resurgence of pandemic and

The decision clears BAE Systems to begin production of the electronic warfare upgrade as developmental and operational testing by the 53rd Wing continues.

The contract award scheduled later this month to ether L3Harris or Northrop Grumman will be managed under the more traditional process of an Acquisition Category (ACAT)-1B program of record.

The European Space Agency has awarded two contracts for the delivery of the Space Rider flight model, a small reusable spacecraft aimed at robotic missions in low Earth orbit, and the associated ground segment.

The external release of a subsonic, Lockheed Martin AGM-158 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile from the right forward fuselage station of the B-1B helps to prove the feasibility of launching hypersonic weapons.

Ben Nicholson as Vice President-Washington Operations, based in Washington, DC, of CAE.

NASA and BOEING are targeting March 29 launch of Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test (Orbital Flight Test-2) to the International Space Station as

The USS Chaffee, a DDG-51 destroyer, conducted the first operational test of the Raytheon Tomahawk Block V.

The motion of each X-61A in relation to the capture mechanism during each attempt proved larger than the designers expected, DARPA said. The X-61As instead deployed parachutes to recover safely on the ground.

The U.S. director of national intelligence announced that the nation is creating an Intelligence Community Commercial Space Council, during a Dec. 9 meeting of the National Space Council.

Fateful decisions loom in the next 12 months for a global fighter market caught up in a pivotal debate over how much to invest in each of three

There will be less harm in investing in guided missiles than in misguided men.

The size and mass of the FCAS Next-Generation Fighter is driving the need for a big-deck carrier.

The failure of the legislation comes two days before a 30-day Congressional notification deadline ends on the late move by the Trump Administration to accelerate the sale of stealth fighters and unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) to the UAE.

With a Cobham drogue pod installed on the left-wing, inboard station for the 2.5-hr. flight, Boeing analyzed the aerodynamics of the company-owned T1 test asset for the MQ-25.

Program Dossier: Yak-152

A SpaceX Starship prototype, powered for the first time by a trio of liquid oxygen- and methane-burning Merlin engines, crashed during a landing

UK venture capital outfit Octopus Ventures and investment firm BGF joined existing Orbex investors High-Tech Gründerfonds, Heartcore Capital and Elecnor S.A. in a new funding round for the launch company.

UAVs pioneer AeroVironment late Dec. 8 announced it has struck a deal to acquire Telerob Gesellschaft für Fernhantierungstechnik, a German provider of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) for defense and security, for about $45.4 million (€37.5 million) in cash.

During his final meeting as chair of the National Space Council, Vice President Mike Pence named 18 astronauts to form the initial cadre supporting crewed flights to the Moon under the Artemis program.

The French, German and Spanish air forces have narrowed down a list of potential architectures for the European Future Combat Air System to five.

After the SDA agreed to re-evaluate the bids in an effort to resolve the concerns by the contractors, the GAO dismissed Raytheon's and Airbus' initial protests on Nov. 30.

AAR has $148m US Navy contract to provide contractor logistics support for operating/maintaining C-40As (737-700Cs), aircraft subsystems, appliances