Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The Pentagon plans within the next week to release new guidance on reducing the impact of inflation on vendors, particularly smaller companies that have firm, fixed-price contracts without flexibility to deal with increasing costs.

The Royal Australian Air Force is not flying its Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning IIs and Boeing EA-18G Growlers to their full combat capabilities at Exercise Pitch Black.

The Colorado Springs facility will serve as a hub to educate, train and test space warfighters and analysts in realistic virtual environments.

Conducting the repair at Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39B could pave the way for another Artemis I launch attempt later this month.

Israel’s SpaceIL, a nonprofit organization pursuing a privately funded mission to the Moon in 2025, plans to use computer vision for its lunar lander’s navigation.

Ben Wallace will continue as UK defense secretary in the new government formed by new Prime Minister Liz Truss.

Leonardo Helicopters is planning take on Airbus in its own backyard by competing for a German requirement for a light utility helicopter.

Baykar’s Bayraktar TB2 uncrewed aircraft system could secure its 30th customer before year-end, senior company officials say.

Russia and Ukraine appear to have settled for a state of mutual denial in the air. But what do U.S. Air Force war planners make of this idea?

Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev have picked up where they left off more than two weeks ago when their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) was cut short by a spacesuit battery issue.

The U.S. Marine Corps is trying out the so-called expeditionary advanced basing operations concept with its Lockheed Martin F-35B fighters while on deployment to Australia.

Montreal-based startup VPorts plans to build a network of vertiports in Quebec, focused initially on regional cargo and medical transportation using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Saab has conducted live-firing of its motorized variant of its RBS-70NG surface-to-air missile, witnessed by military officials from a total of 15 NATO and non-NATO potential customer countries.

China’s AVIC First Aircraft Institute has flown its Venus-50 solar-powered pseudo satellite for the first time.

The deals come as Chinese naval ships continue to prowl the waters around Taiwan after tensions heightened in early August.

The move signals the growing importance of electric power in new aircraft designs.

An order for the Su-35 would be the first major acquisition by Iran for its air force in more than two decades.

The MAFFS was originally designed for the Lockheed Martin C-130, but is compatible with the cargo-handling system on the C-390.

Shanghai-based Vertax has flown a half-scale model of its design and is targeting certification in 2026.

Placing Eutelsat's Konnect VHTS into orbit signals the beginning of the end for Europe’s Ariane 5 workhorse.

The aircraft is expected to begin remotely piloted test flights before the end of the year.

Stymied by a new liquid hydrogen leak, NASA called off its second attempt to launch the Artemis I flight test.

CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA managers on Sept. 3 cleared the Kennedy Space Center launch team to proceed with fueling the two-stage Space Launch System (SLS

The U.S. Space Force recently broke ground on an Enhanced Polar Systems-Recapitalization satellite communications terminal in Clear Space Force Station, Alaska.

The U.S. Air Force Academy is showcasing new test capabilities developed as part of research stretching back 16 years supporting the design of the Orion crew capsule for NASA’s Artemis program.