Aerospace

The Indian mission Chandrayaan-2 was due to take off on July 15, 2019, but it was cancelled 1 hour before launch because of technical issues. No new date was announced so far.The first pictures of the...

Turkish Aerospace displayed a one-to-one mock-up of the new Turkish Fighter, known as TF-X, for the first time at the Paris Air Show, on June 17, 2019.  ...

MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an “ionic wind” — a silent but mighty flow of ions that is produced aboard the plane, and that generates enough thrust to propel the plane over a sustained, steady flight....

Airbus has officially confirmed that Guillaume Faury is to replace current company Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Tom Enders after his tenure on April 10, 2019....

The event became the first time SpaceX’s first stage was successfully recovered on a landing zone in the West Coast....

The troubled $1.5 trillion F-35 program is not ready to begin the critical combat-testing phase, the Pentagon’s testing director said in a previously undisclosed August memo obtained by the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). ...

Technicians have completed construction on the spacecraft capsule structure that will return astronauts to the Moon, and have shipped the capsule for final assembly into a full spacecraft, Lockheed Martin announced on August 28, 2018. The capsule structure, or pressure vessel, is made for NASA's Orion Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2) spacecraft....

UK announced on July 16, 2018, at the Farnborough International Airshow, that it plans to build the country’s first commercial vertical launch spaceport in northern Scotland. ...

Boeing announced on July 9, 2018, its extensive plans to reveal the future of air and space travel at the Farnborough Airshow....

An overview of the most significant developments that transpired prior to the UK’s Farnborough International Airshow 2018 and what can be expected at the event....