Defense and Space

Airbus Voom hitches ride with Cabify, Ehang plans bigger eVTOL air taxi, SonicBAT tests humidity’s effect on booms, and smallsat launcher testing picks up pace.

Rocket Lab says incorrectly configured ground telemetry equipment operated by an independent contractor led to the early termination of the first test launch of its Electron rocket on May 25.

An MV-22 Osprey crashed off the coast of Australia on Aug. 5. All but three of the 26 personnel on board have been rescued, the Marine Corps said.

Speculation builds that Rockwell Collins may be in play to be acquired by United Technologies Corp.

The Air Force has purchased two pre-built Boeing 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft that have been in storage since February.

Darpa has selected three teams for the first phase of a program to demonstrate a system to protect convoys against small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

The U.S. may buy two white-tail Boeing 747-8Is originally ordered for a now-defunct Russian airline and refurbish them as the next Air Force One fleet.

In this week's Washington Outlook: Did Transportation officials improperly lobby Congress? House lawmakers say program delays show need for Space Corps; breaking Pentagon acquisition in two; and using robots to build budgets.

Lockheed Martin says the milestone flight took place on July 28 at Sikorsky’s aircraft facility in Stratford, Connecticut.

Orbital ATK President and CEO Dave Thompson says his company foresees maybe just 10 orders of geocommunications satellites for all of 2017.

Part of the Lockheed Martin C-5M Super Galaxy fleet at Dover AFB in Delaware has resumed flying after being grounded due to nose landing gear failures.

NASA is preparing to mark the 40th anniversaries of the Aug. 20 and Sept. 5, 1977 launches of NASA’s Voyager 2 and 1 spacecraft on missions that continue to this day.

Lockheed Martin’s fly-by-wire Sikorsky S-97 Raider technology demonstrator suffered a hard landing during a morning test flight in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Thailand, the last operator of the F-5E/F Tiger in Southeast Asia, will put four more of the light fighters into an extensive upgrade program.

The Trump administration could learn about defense-industrial policy from the Eisenhower administration’s 1953 review of U.S. strategy toward the Soviet Union.

Croatia hunting for newer-model fighters; Romania boosts defense spending; U.S. tests nuclear-capable ICBM, and Switzerland seeks F-18 upgrades.

A Defense Department report on cracking apart the office of acquisition, technology and logistics supports greater prototyping, experimentation and disruptive innovation to seize on technological opportunities and outpace competitors.

Lockheed Martin announced Aug. 2 that construction has begun on a new $350 million facility near Denver to produce satellites.

Boeing and its leading aerostructures supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, have agreed on the outline of a long-term manufacturing deal.

The Israel Space Agency and prime contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) dealt themselves a place in the emerging electric propulsion technology sector.

New orders for the multinational Eurofighter Typhoon fighter are at least two years away, BAE Systems says.

The Croatian government has issued requests for fighter aircraft proposals from five countries as it seeks a more modern, Western-type replacement for its aging Mikoyan MiG-21s.

North Korea appears to have achieved a greater altitude and implied maximum range in its second test of the Hwasong 14 intercontinental ballistic missile by reducing payload.

A slew of recent CEO comments confirm how classified or “black budget” work is gaining significance for industry’s bottom line.

House lawmakers are seizing on a pair of U.S. Air Force space program delays to support the need to create a Space Corps.