Defense and Space

Instead of being a Space Corps, Air Force Space Command will be modeled after the Army Air Corps of the early 1990s.

The $692 billion defense policy bill boosts missile defense and aviation accounts considerably compared to the White House’s May budget request.

The first launch of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which is slated to send an uncrewed Orion capsule on a trial run around the Moon, likely won’t occur until June 2020.

Germany appears to be favoring the Lockheed Martin F-35 as the successor to the Panavia Tornado.

An activist stock investor has targeted AeroVironment, one of the leading suppliers of small unmanned aircraft to the U.S. military.

Richard “Dick” Gordon Jr., an early record-setting NASA astronaut who walked in space and circled the Moon, has died.

President Donald Trump’s 13-day trip to Asia is being facilitated by dozens of U.S. military refueling tankers and cargo aircraft that regional operators say are needed in the Middle East to fight terrorists.

Uber has signed an agreement to cooperate with NASA on developing low-altitude airspace traffic management to support the demonstrations.

Malaysia has shifted its ambitions to seeking additional, secondhand Boeing F/A-18s Hornets, putting off a long-standing requirement for advanced new aircraft until the 2020s.

Restricted from selling armed unmanned aircraft systems in the Middle East, an interim approach is to wirelessly link surveillance drones with attack helicopters.

Boeing has installed the last of 44 silo-based ballistic missile interceptors ordered by the former Obama administration as U.S. President Donald Trump requests funding from Congress for another 20.

The U.S. Air Force will use a Lockheed Martin-built fiber laser weapon for fighter aircraft self-protection in a live-fire demonstration expected by 2021.

The Swedish government is set to begin negotiations with the U.S. to purchase the Patriot air and missile defense system.

A Kawasaki Heavy Industries C-2 airlifter will appear at the Dubai Airshow this month during a deployment classified as a flight training exercise but obviously also intended to market the type.

Aiming to mitigate effects from delayed Exploration Mission-1, the ascent abort test of Orion’s launch escape system will proceed, a program manager says.

Lockheed Martin would offer a dual-band, active electronically scanned array radar to replace the U.S. Army’s Raytheon-built MPQ-65 Patriot missile defense fire control radar.

The launch of the first NOAA/NASA Joint Polar Satellite System spacecraft from Vandenberg AFB, California, has been delayed from Nov. 10 to no earlier than Nov. 14.

Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) is expected to complete deliveries of Thailand’s first batch of T-50 jet trainers by March.

Thailand is putting into service a locally made UAV, likely for patrol along its land borders.

Airbus has completed the long-awaited sale of its Vector Aerospace business to StandardAero.

Trump’s executive order to shore up the defense industrial base and supply chain is a good start but needs to encompass outlets and allies beyond U.S. borders.

A large portion of the amended request, $2.1 billion, would support missile defense efforts, including building a new ground-based interceptor field at Fort Greely, Alaska.

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Raytheon will greatly improve detection range and sensitivity of the X-band TPY-2 missile defense radar through the introduction of gallium nitride semiconductor components.

Danish auditors have expressed concern about the assessments used by the country’s government in selecting the F-35 as the country’s next fighter jet.

India has tested the Smart Anti Airfield Weapon, clearing the way for its induction into the country’s military.