Bell Helicopter’s V-280 Valor is ready for initial ground runs at the company’s assembly facility in Amarillo, Texas, and could fly by the end of the month.
As Johnson Space Center recovered from Hurricane Harvey’s floodwaters on Sept. 6, a second massive storm barreled toward Florida, raising concerns at Kennedy Space Center.
Former U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has come out against the creation of a separate Space Corps, saying “the juice is not worth the squeeze.”
The federal Advisory Council on Historic Preservation will join with Space Center Houston to administer the $5 million restoration of NASA’s Apollo-era Mission Control room.
India’s IRNSS-1H navigation satellite, which failed to reach its intended orbit following its Aug. 31 launch, is expected to re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere in 40-60 days.
As tensions on the Korean peninsula grow hotter and hotter, imposing costs on the U.S. military, Aviation Week editors discuss whether it is time to learn how to live with a nuclear North Korea.
The fate of United Technologies Corp.’s proposed $30 billion takeover of avionics and cabin interiors leader Rockwell Collins could rest on savings that the newly enlarged supplier provides to all-important customer Boeing.
The Fixed-Wing Utility Aircraft program has been in development since November 2015, intended to replace the U.S. Army’s C-12 Huron and C-26 Metroliner fleets.
France’s MQ-9 Reaper medium-altitude, long endurance (MALE) unmanned air vehicles (UAV), thus far used for surveillance purposes, will soon carry air-to-ground weapons.
Germany startup Lilium has received $90 million in investment to continue development of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) urban air transport aircraft.
Lockheed Martin is pursuing a close integration between the Orion crew capsule it is developing for NASA and the proposed lunar-orbiting Deep Space Gateway and follow-on Deep Space Transport.
The gates to NASA’s storm-drenched Johnson Space Center reopened Sept. 5, with space agency managers hopeful that operations will return to normal as soon as possible.
The first F-35 squadrons are set to receive aircraft equipped with a version of the final software load, but the program still has significant hurdles to overcome in its final stretch.
The U.S. Air Force's OA-X experiment is not an aircraft-procurement program, and neither is a new initiative announced back in July, called Light Attack Support for Special Operations (LASSO).
Missile defense features prominently in the latest budget request of the Japanese defense ministry, with plans for acquiring Aegis Ashore and additional ground- and sea-based interceptors.
