Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Brian Everstine
Representatives of almost 50 nations have pledged to continue helping Ukraine strengthen its air- and defense-missile systems during a Pentagon-led meeting.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Germany is planning a stepped approach to the development of an electronic attack variant of the Eurofighter.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Air Force plans include keeping Boeing F-15Es with higher-thrust engines for the long-term, leaving the majority of the fleet vulnerable to retirement.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The National Reconnaissance Office has opened a new call to industry for hyperspectral imagery, looking to see what technologies it can use for intelligence.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon has failed its fifth straight audit and though the department has made movement toward cleaning up its books, the top official in charge of the effort says there should have been more progress.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System is to support the second and first NASA Artemis-era missions to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon under a $1.15 billion contract modification.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Japan is mulling a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellation of satellites to help it track modern hypersonic ballistic missiles, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun has reported.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The approvals help pave the way for the first planned orbital launch from the UK mainland for Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission using its air-launched LauncherOne space vehicle that will be carried by its modified Boeing 747.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The statement is the first official acknowledgment that the strike near the Polish village of Przewodow on Nov. 15 was not an errant or intentional attack by Russia.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
The most powerful rocket NASA has ever built lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 16, ending years of delays in the debut of the Artemis Moon program.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio resumed the agency’s efforts to upgrade the International Space Station’s solar power-generation system, with a 7-hr. spacewalk.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Boeing has demonstrated autonomous anti-jamming capabilities with the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Negotiations are underway with consortia and companies bidding to participate in South Korea’s K-UAM Grand Challenge program, which is intended to evaluate the safety and capability of urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
NASA managers clear the Artemis I launch team at the Kennedy Space Center to begin fueling the Space Launch System rocket for a long-delayed debut flight to put an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into a distant lunar orbit.
Space

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine, Tony Osborne
Explosions on Polish territory near the Ukrainian border on Nov. 15 triggered an emergency meeting of Poland’s security cabinet amidst disputed claims of errant or intentional Russian missile strikes on the NATO member.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Angus Batey
The UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute has launched a new initiative, the ATI Hub, in an effort to “help develop and convene the sustainable aerospace ecosystem,” according to the organization’s CEO.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
AST SpaceMobile has deployed what it says is the “largest-ever” commercial communications array in low-Earth orbit.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Display of the Optionally Piloted Personal Air Vehicle (OPPAV), by airframe designer and manufacturer Vessel Aerospace, was a centerpiece of the K-UAM Confex organized by Incheon International Airport.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Archer's new facility will be capable of producing up to 650 of its four-passenger Midnight aircraft per year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
The move comes as Reaction continues its push in the U.S. and elsewhere to develop its pre-cooler technology for high-Mach aircraft and missiles, as well as space access vehicles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
All five crew members on the Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress bomber and one in the Bell P-63F Kingcobra fighter were killed in the accident, which happened at the Wings Over Dallas airshow.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
The two-hour launch window on Nov. 16 closes at 3:04 a.m. The mission marks the first flight of the SLS, which has been in development for more than a decade.
Space

News in brief.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Members of German aerospace trade body BDLI say Berlin should call for a role for German industry in its acquisitions of Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters and Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Archer Aviation is doubling down on its confidence in certifying its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle by the end of 2024 and launching air-taxi service in 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion