Defense and Space

New technical issues plaguing the A400M airlifter’s TP400-D6 engine could pose a significant financial risk to Airbus Group.

Europe’s next-generation Ariane 6 launcher in development at Airbus Safran Launchers (ASL) will kick off its preliminary design review April 28.

Russian Helicopters has reportedly performed the first flight of its long-delayed Kamov Ka-62 twin-engine medium helicopter.

India has successfully launched its seventh and last satellite to form a regional navigational system similar to the U.S.-based Global Positioning System.

The Proteus unmanned undersea vehicle from Undersea Solutions Group successfully completed endurance testing earlier this month.

The X-2 is intended to demonstrate such technologies as stealth shaping, skin sensors. fly-by-light controls and thrust vectoring.

While traditional foreign military sales to Saudi Arabia conceivably could decline under the inward push, all is not necessarily lost.

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Astronauts preparing for commercial flight crew operations in private spacecraft say the human-in-the-loop autonomous procedures that take them to the International Space Station (ISS) will be similar to the way UAVs are flown today.

The U.S. Air Force’s largest weapon program, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, on which the U.S. will spend more than $400 billion, has hit a stride. The question is how long the program will be able to sustain it.

One day after Thales Alenia Space launched its Sentinel-1B Earth-monitoring satellite to a 700 km orbit, the Franco-Italian spacecraft manufacturer signed initial contracts to build a stratospheric platform capable of many of the same remote-sensing functions.

Flying demonstrations at this year’s Farnborough Airshow will face more challenging restrictions on aerobatic maneuvers as a result of the fatal Shoreham, England crash last August.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have initiated trials of new laboratory equipment intended to enable routine gene expression analysis of biological specimens in orbit

Northrop Grumman likely will keep its so-called independent research and development (IRAD) spending relatively elevated in coming years “because we see the business imperative,” Chairman, CEO and President Wes Bush said April 27.

Conflicting claims have been made regarding India’s proposed purchase of five S-400 missile systems from Russia.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station deployed an Earth observing microsatellite developed and assembled by Filipino researchers and engineers with guidance from experts from Japan’s Hokkaido and Tohoku universities early April 27.

A Europeanized Soyuz delivered five small spacecraft to low Earth orbit April 25, including the Sentinel-1B radar Earth observation satellite developed for the European Commission’s Copernicus environmental monitoring and security program.

DCNS has won a competition to help build 12 submarines for Australia, offering a design for diesel vessels that will be vastly larger than any now in service.

GE Aviation’s Avio Aero is working near- and long-term solutions to address a balky component on the EuroProp International (EPI) TP400-D6 engine, four of which power the new Airbus A400M tactical airlifter.

Saudi Arabia, the world’s second leading arms importer over the last five years, will embark on a massive effort to build up its military industrial base and provide for a major portion of its security forces in coming years.

After hoping for a first flight in May, India now plans to test its reusable launch vehicle in June, according to the country’s top scientist.

Russian aerospace forces continue their shopping spree, signing contracts with Russian Helicopters for Mi-28UB combat training helicopters and Mil Mi-26 super heavy transports.

The U.K. Royal Air Force has performed the first free-fall parachuting trials from a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III as it looks to push the airlifter into tactical operations.

The U.K. is to sign a Foreign Military Sales (FMS) deal for the General Atomics Certifiable Predator B to meet its Protector program requirements.

The Solar Impulse team is studying weather windows for a flight to Phoenix from Moffett Field, California, on the next leg of its attempt to fly around the world on solar power.