Defense and Space

By Bill Carey
NASA conducted the first flight of its Ikhana remotely piloted aircraft in shared airspace without a chase plane on June 12.
Defense and Space

India’s enhanced version of the Pinaka multi-barrel rocket, with increased range and a new guidance system, will be inducted into the country’s military by 2020.
Defense and Space

By Irene Klotz
Launch costs last year dropped 40% per pound to orbit compared to 2016, the Satellite Industry Association (SIA) said June 13.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin has confirmed its selection of Raytheon to provide a next-generation infrared distributed aperture system (DAS) for the F-35.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Boeing and Saab announced June 7 that their Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) successfully engaged a moving target that was 100 km (62 mi.) away.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
A Turkish program to develop an indigenous turboshaft engine has completed its first major milestone with the ignition of the engine core.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Pratt & Whitney is refining its proposed upgrade path for the F135 Joint Strike Fighter engine to include increased power and thermal management capability.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
Bridenstine said the Trump administration’s position on ISS funding has forced a conversation about what comes next.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Frost & Sullivan says the global additive manufacturing (AM) materials market for the aerospace industry will reach $535.1 million by 2024.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
Specialty aerospace parts supplier Esterline Technologies has warned its fiscal 3rd-quarter earnings results will be lower than the company’s previous forecast.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno
The Defense Department and the tech community have distinctly different approaches to problem solving, but both sides are working on mutual understanding.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Air Force is looking toward high-speed vehicles that can be refurbished and ultimately be fully reusable.
Defense and Space

By Michael Bruno, Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo
Pratt & Whitney on June 12 unveiled GatorWorks, a prototyping office that will aim for rapid and agile development of lower-cost military engines.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Army plans to take a different approach to procuring a small munition for the General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle that can double the loadout of the UAS.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Aero Vodochody is looking to offer its L-39NG and L-159 light attack aircraft as potential competitors for a future U.S. Air Force light attack aircraft.
Defense and Space

By Marhalim Abas
The Philippines has reiterated the desire of President Rodrigo Duterte to order 12 more Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) FA-50 light attack jets.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
The Qatar Emiri Air Force has selected Lockheed Martin’s Sniper targeting pod for its Dassault Rafale fighters, the company announced June 12.
Defense and Space

India’s national space agency is planning to build at least six remote-sensing satellites to monitor weather and atmospheric conditions.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
A British company using small unmanned air vehicles for photogrammetry has carried out beyond-visual-line-of-sight flights over land in nonsegregated airspace.
Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Turkish unmanned air system manufacturer Baykar Makina has unveiled the first major components for its planned Akinci unmanned air system.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Dynetics is to produce up to 1,000 GBU-69/B Small Glide Munitions a year for the USSOCOM in a massive ramp-up in production of the company-developed weapon.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
From surviving in contested airspace to supplying remote areas, interest in unmanned transport and tanker aircraft is growing.
Defense and Space

By Thierry Dubois
Daher is developing ISR variants of its TBM 910 and TBM 930 single turboprops as lower-cost alternatives to twin-turboprop and twin-jet aircraft.
Defense and Space

India’s national space agency has gotten the go-ahead to develop a semi-cryogenic engine capable of powering the country’s heaviest rocket.
Defense and Space

By Jen DiMascio
In a recent survey of the Space and Missile Systems Center’s workforce, the words most often used to describe the organization were “bureaucratic” and “slow.”
Defense and Space