Avic is working toward flying an operational near-space, solar-powered drone in 2021, following a decision this year to proceed with a demonstrator of 50-m (164-ft.) wingspan.
Inmarsat has signed a contract with the ESA to begin the second phase of the Iris development program to create a satellite data link capability for aircraft flying in Europe.
Sixteen vehicles purporting to be road-mobile launchers for DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missiles appeared in China’s National Day parade on Oct. 1, sending a signal that the weapon is operational.
Bell's new Invictus has a single main rotor and shrouded tail rotor, a wing to offload the rotor, and is powered by a single General Electric T901 Improved Turbine Engine, augmented by a supplemental power unit to provide higher speed.
A scheduled flight-testing battery for a new crop of hypersonic and long-range weapons is putting pressure on operational test and evaluation sites to keep up.
Five defensive concepts, including one by Boeing and two each submitted by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, were downselected from a pool of 21 proposals.
A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on Oct. 1 announced an opinion backing Houston-based tech startup Intuitive Machines in its legal fight against Moon Express, a privately owned lunar transportation and services company based at Cape Canaveral.
Whitcraft, a Connecticut-based manufacturer of highly-engineered precision formed, precision machined, and fabricated products for aerospace turbine engine OEMs and Tier I suppliers, said Oct. 1 it acquired Multax of Morton, Illinois, which has roots in programming the first multiple axis machines ever used.
The Chinese YJ-18 anti-ship missile made its first public appearance in the country’s Oct. 1 National Day parade, several years after its reported first deployment.
Advanced composites provider Gurit announced Oct. 1 that it will close one of its aerospace business sites, in Zullwil, Switzerland, and concentrate work at its Kassel, Germany, center by the end of 2021.
World View Enterprises Inc. has exceeded by more than two days its goal of a 30-day demo Stratollite balloon mission for sustained navigational stratospheric flight.
China unveiled a hypersonically gliding surface-to-surface missile, the DF-17, at its national day parade on Oct. 1, saying the weapon is non-nuclear and has the powerful ability to penetrate defenses.
The USAF's Space and Missile Systems Center and the NRO has awarded a $1.18B sole-source contract modification to the United Launch Alliance to support five Delta IV heavy launches over five years.
The U.S. Air Force is conducting market research on “capable industry sources” for providing two separate follow-on sustainment services contracts to the current Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP), but is open to considering a teaming approach.
High altitude long endurance aircraft and High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites have attracted the U.S. Force Service’s interest for monitoring wildfires and relaying communication signals.
A NASA contract has provided confirmation that a turbine-based combined-cycle (TBCC) engine under development by DARPA to power reusable hypersonic vehicles is built around a Rolls-Royce Adour turbofan.
The U.S. Marine Corps intends to accelerate the Unmanned Logistics System-Air effort by conducting a prize challenge competition in late January 2020 at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona.
China’s state space-launcher industry is turning to private enterprise for propulsion technology in an apparent attempt to overcome long development cycles.
Link Space is working toward a 2022 first flight of a reusable rocket intended to place 180-kg payloads in Sun-synchronous orbits for a price of 20 million yuan ($2.8 million).
