Defense and Space

Saab’s Gripen looks likely to become Bulgaria’s next fighter after a government working group gave the aircraft a thumbs up.

The U.S. Air Force Sustainment Center has more data scientists under its purview than the Air Force Research Laboratory, the center’s commander told MRO Americas.

The Cassini spacecraft emerged apparently unbattered from its first ring plane crossing at Saturn.

AVX has proposed a Cobra-style low-drag airframe coupled with the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor’s plug-on wing and rotor system as an armed Osprey escort.

Aerospace component and structures manufacturer GKN Aerospace is looking toward Asia for its next major acquisition, chief executive Kevin Cummings says.

India is working to increase the number of its satellite launches to 12 per year from about the current eight.

Getting most or all NATO members to spend the alliance goal of 2% each of GDP on defense would be laudable, but do not expect that to translate into too much revenue for the defense industry, an analyst says.

Singapore upgrades Apache fleet, defense spending up worldwide, the latest U.S. ICBM test, and Indian Navy tests land-attack Brahmos

NASA’s associate administrator for science is overseeing an effort to shape ongoing agency programs to line up with a renewed emphasis on discovering extraterrestrial life.

Lockheed Martin is finalizing the sale of six Fury UAVs to an undisclosed Middle East customer.

Helsinki has yet to eliminate any of the five fighter manufacturers who responded to the request for information sent out by the Finnish Defense Forces’ Logistics Command back in April 2016.

The government has approved the latest iteration of the F-35’s troubled fleet management system, which fully integrates data from the Pratt & Whitney F135 engine, for installation on U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force sites.

Boeing managed to make a positive start to 2017 with strong earnings, despite marginal revenue declines across its businesses.

The ship, expected to be named after the province Shandong, is a near-sibling of the first Chinese carrier, Liaoning, which itself follows much the same design as the Russian ship Kuznetsov.

A spokeswoman for the F-35's Joint Program Office says the U.S. Air Force and Marine Corps have made no plans to send the fifth-generation fighter to this summer's major European air shows.

With President Donald Trump’s “Buy American” coming at the same time as the U.S. defense industry is expanding overseas, what does it mean?

Arianespace has rescheduled its next Ariane 5 launch for May 4 local time at the company’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, following the strikes and social unrest that forced the European launch provider to suspend operations for a month.

The second Boeing/Saab T-X aircraft has taken flight in St. Louis, Missouri, less than five months after the first.

Lockheed Martin surprised Wall Street and others April 25, announcing a couple of relatively small hits to first-quarter 2017 earnings.

The U.S. Air Force wants to competitively buy up to three new EELV secondary payload adapters with “power, attitude control, and propulsive capabilities,” allowing the adapter ring to continue supporting non-separating satellites throughout their mission.

An online survey by University of Michigan researchers suggests most people in the U.S. would use them if they become operational.

The two F-35As and about 20 supporting airmen will remain in Estonia for a brief period before returning to RAF Lakenheath, UK.

A new, state-of-the-art air traffic control tower for the city of Houston’s Ellington Airport and Spaceport is expected to be operational by the end of next year.

Lockheed says after 18 months of system-level design and development, the Long-Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) is now moving into the detailed design phase.

Marine Corps ‘MUX’ gives rotorcraft industry another large-scale VTOL drone opportunity.