Boeing’s defense and space unit will consolidate jobs and cut its work sites by 2020, affecting thousands of positions and cutting roughly 4.5 million sq. ft. of space, the company said Nov. 15.
The NASA Advisory Council’s Human Exploration and Operations committee agreed Nov. 14 to defer deliberations on a SpaceX Falcon 9 liquid oxygen fueling concern.
The company has formed the Commercial Information Solutions business unit and launched the Quantix, a tailsitting drone that takes off and lands vertically but transitions to wingborne forward flight for increased efficiency and range.
Built like a 1970s pickup truck, the trusty Mil Mi-17 is becoming popular with oil and gas companies in the Americas, who are increasingly sending their pilots and maintainers to Alabama to stay up to speed.
NASA's next steps toward its Journey to Mars plans could become a challenge without near-term action from Congress on 2017 and near-term budgets that keep pace with inflation.
Aviation Week visited the U.S. Air Force’s first operational F-35 squadron to get an inside look at how maintainers fixed a problem with faulty insulation on the aircraft’s avionics cooling lines.
Canada’s Thoth Technology has refurbished a 46-meter (151-ft.) radio telescope to create a commercial deep-space radar service providing surveillance of geostationary orbit over North America for satellite operators.
Lockheed Martin and a cast of supporting companies held what the company said was a first-of-its-kind public demonstration of multiple unmanned aircraft systems.
Aurora Flight Sciences is converting a Bell UH-1H Huey helicopter to unmanned operation for the final phase of a program to demonstrate autonomous obstacle avoidance and landing capability for rapid cargo resupply.
Aviation Week visited the U.S. Air Force’s first operational F-35 squadron to get an inside look at how maintainers fixed a problem with faulty insulation on the aircraft’s avionics cooling lines.
WASHINGTON -- The latest evolution of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Avenger, an armed unmanned aerial system, took flight at the company's Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility in Palmdale, California – lifting off at around 9 a.m. local time on Oct. 27. This “extended-range” version can fly for 20 hr. compared to 15 hr. for the baseline design, which first flew in 2009.
As the dust settles after one of the most fractious and raucous presidential races in U.S. history, the defense sector is now pondering life under a Donald Trump administration, and it has some words of advice for the president-elect.
A study of meteorites on Mars suggests its harsh, cold conditions have been 10 and possibly 10,000 times drier than those on Earth for millions of years, which suggests a low probability of extant life.
Tactical Air Support (TacAir) is to become the world’s largest private operator of Northrop F-5s after snapping up the Royal Jordanian Air Force’s remaining inventory of 21 single and dual-seat E/F models, including spare parts and engines.
Spirit AeroSystems is looking at ways to grow its core aerostructures business, which could include business jet, regional jet, military and space programs, the company’s top executive said during a speech at a Wichita Aero Club luncheon here Nov. 10.
