Defense and Space

Satellite services provider Intelsat said April 10 it may have to warn about bad news if it cannot reconnect with its Intelsat 29e satellite.

DARPA has awarded $400 million to three space launch companies to participate in its launch challenge aimed at being able to arrange and pull off a launch in a short period of time.

Japan has grounded its 12 remaining Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightnings following the crash of one of its stealthy fighters over the Pacific Ocean on April 9.

Raytheon has demoed a land-based expeditionary version of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System for the first time to the USAF, Navy and Marine Corps.

British defense and engineering firm Babcock is selling its share in France’s military helicopter flight training company Helidax.

The Trump administration is abandoning its controversial proposal to end direct federal support for the International Space Station (ISS) in 2025.

The U.S. Air Force has started a regeneration process for a second Boeing B-52H bomber that has been parked in long-term storage in Arizona.

Defense business strategists would do well to follow the example of Pentagon legend Andrew Marshall by focusing on asking the right questions.

Government and industry see the Tempest as a way of reigniting national interest in high-tech engineering.

Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo pilots Dave Mackay and Mike Masucci, as well as Chief Astronaut Instructor Beth Moses, earned their commercial astronaut wings from the FAA on April 9.

A U.S. Air Force official’s month-old proposal to buy back intellectual property rights on military equipment from industry has drawn sharp criticism from two industry executives.

NASA has issued a synopsis for a solicitation for a system that can carry crew from the lunar surface back to their Orion capsule.

The head of U.S. Strategic Command believes there is merit in pursuing a proliferated constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit, but warns the nation should not go “all in” on a technology that has not been proven.

The Pentagon is making optimistic assumptions, especially regarding congressional support, in its five-year plan for a U.S. Space Force (USSF), according to sources on Capitol Hill and in industry.

The U.S. Air Force will begin accepting Boeing KC-46As later this month and the company’s senior leadership is “embarrassed” by the program's foreign object debris problem, according to the service's acquisition chief.

Embraer has selected Francisco Gomes Neto, currently president of street bus body supplier Marcopolo, to be its next CEO and president.

Although the U.S. Air Force is moving fast to draw on commercial technology, there are limitations, U.S. Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson says.

The Aerospace Corp. has launched a cubesat that will serve as a testbed for evolving artificial intelligence techniques on orbit.

Russia’s United Aircraft Corporation has once again reshuffled its top management as it prepares to separate its commercial aircraft production from military programs.

A Japanese Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on April 9, having evidently crashed.

The U.S. Army is searching for an airborne surveillance platform with long-range, moving target detection capabilities.

The ZQ-2 medium-lift space launcher of private Chinese company Landspace is still due to make its first flight in 2020, a spokesperson said.

Dassault has won a program to re-equip the VIP squadron of the Royal Australian Air Force, which should receive three leased Falcon 7Xs within six months.

Raytheon is leading a consortium of tech firms to modernize the U.S. Air Force Space Defense Operations Center (Spadoc) that tracks and monitors space debris.

Ukraine has tested a ground-launched cruise missile that officials say can strike ground targets 300 km (180 mi.) away.