India’s national space agency has set up a human spaceflight center as its gears up to launch the country’s first human spaceflight mission, Gaganyaan, by 2022.
Structural defects mean the earliest F-35Bs delivered by Lockheed Martin could reach a service life limit by 2026 after 2,100 flight hours, according to the Pentagon’s director for weapons testing.
XTI Aircraft is completing ground runs and system checkouts of a 65%-scale proof-of-concept prototype of its TriFan 600 ducted-fan VTOL business aircraft.
The head of the Tupolev Design Bureau has confirmed its internal designation for Russia’s new stealth bomber and a notional length for the development program.
The New Year’s Day close flyby of the distant Kuiper Belt Object, Ultima Thule, by NASA’s New Horizons mission spacecraft has not been short on intrigue.
Lockheed Martin now says it pitched the USAF on a way to reduce the staff for a BMC2 suite to two or three people from 18 during the now-canceled competition to replace the E-8C J-Stars fleet.
The 35-day shutdown of U.S. government agencies “cut us deep” and set back FAA modernization projects, National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) President Paul Rinaldi said Jan. 29.
DOD leadership has told Lockheed Martin chief Marillyn Hewson that any new orders of rival Boeing’s F-15s will not come at the expense of ordering more F-35s.
NASA’s canceled Constellation return to the Moon initiative has helped ignite new interest in In-Situ Resource Utilization and its potential for future Mars exploration.
