NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is urging that neither policy makers nor NASA cut corners affecting crew safety and tech risk in the White House’s plans to accelerate a lunar return.
A fifth EQ-4 will soon join the fleet of manned and unmanned aircraft that carry a Northrop Grumman-built comm gateway payload called the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node.
Israeli sources say Houthi rebels in Yemen have downed a Chinese-made UAV operated by Saudi Arabia using an air-to-air missile adapted by the Iranians to be fired from the ground.
An helicopter assembly line owned by Airbus and Chinese state partners has begun putting together its first H135s, with deliveries due to begin this year.
Egypt has reportedly opted to buy a fleet of AW149 twin-engine utility helos to meet its requirements for a ship-borne tactical transport and assault helo.
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 sample return mission to the asteroid Ryugu has completed a low-altitude surveillance operation over the site where it dropped an explosive charge in early April to expose subsurface material for a planned second attempt to land and gather soil and rock.
U.S. charges GE employee with espionage; F-35 development cost now $428 billion; Lockheed’s new F-16 production line opens, and Indian trainer resumes test flights.
The U.S. Army has awarded five other transaction authority prototype agreements for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft two months ahead of schedule.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is creating an Office of Spaceports and a new research enterprise focused on commercial space, safety and innovation.
Boeing has awarded L3 Commercial Aviation a contract to supply a traffic alert and collision avoidance (TCAS) processor and flight-data recorder for the U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray unmanned refueling tanker.
The head of Britain’s Defense Safety Authority has called on the defense ministry to make better use of simulation to train UAV crews after a spate of accidents involving Thales’ Watchkeeper.
Garmin International on April 24 announced the recent first flight milestone of a Northrop F-5 fighter equipped with its G3000 integrated avionics suite.
DARPA plans an industry day on May 22 in Washington to brief companies interested in bidding to take over from SSL as the spacecraft provider and operator for its Robotic Servicing of Geostationary Satellites program.
A U.S. grand jury has charged a U.S. citizen of Chinese descent and his relative in China with theft of GE tech for gas and steam turbines, including know-how applicable to aviation.
