Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
Archer Aviation has conducted the first uncrewed test flight of its Midnight electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Overair has announced an agreement to sell 20 of its electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles to South Korean helicopter operator HeliKorea.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
A year and a half after private equity investors bought it, uAvionix has in turn bought Iris Automation, a provider of optical detect and avoid technology.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin has awarded Terran Orbital a contract to build 36 sat buses for the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 2 Transport Layer Beta constellation
Space

By Michael Bruno
RTX leaders sought to snuff out financial concerns over its ongoing GTF engine problems Oct. 23 as they unveiled relatively expected financial results.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
General Electric (GE) had a strong third quarter that exceeded Wall Street expectations with its aerospace business benefiting from robust aftermarket demand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Competitors for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA) program have started the certification and installation process of the engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The QuickSounder is the first in a new generation of small, low-Earth-orbit satellites for weather and climate-change observations.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Canadian aerospace and defense training leader CAE will use proceeds from the sale to pay off debt and invest in its core training and simulation markets.
Maintenance & Training

By Chen Chuanren
Boeing and Brisbane-based Ferra Engineering have agreed to extend their JDAM wing kit partnership through 2028.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Axiom Space is nearing completion of its Hab One pressure vessel.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK has been OK’d to purchase up to 3,000 Lockheed Martin Joint Air-to-Ground Missiles (JAGM) to equip its new Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
The Biden administration is standing up a technology center of excellence around Spokane, Washington.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Airbus and Northrop Grumman have teamed up to bid on the modernization of the UK’s Skynet military communications satellites.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon is surging additional advanced air defense systems to the Middle East amid an increase in attacks on its forces in the region.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Airbus will pursue the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 recapitalization program on its own without prior partner Lockheed Martin.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Helen Chachaty
Airbus Defense and Space has agreed to upgrade France’s A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transports.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
A company has announced a “record-setting” $100 million “seed” round of venture capital investment toward its proposed platform for lunar transportation.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
A team of European rocket developers are to help prove German ambitions for sat launch at sea with a series of suborbital launches planned for spring 2024.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
A 10-year-old Poway, California-based company says it has applied for an export license for a synthetic pilot that can command a simulated weapon system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters has applied for patents for a multifan electric anti-torque system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA is addressing two issues with its 1970s-era Voyager 1 and 2 deep space probes.
Space

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
Studies are underway to fulfill another unnamed customer's export requirements for the FA-50, according to a KAI update at the Seoul ADEX airshow.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Boeing on Oct. 20 resumed deliveries of its KC-46 tanker to the U.S. Air Force following an almost two-month pause due to red-tape issues.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
NASA intends to develop a spacecraft that will rendezvous with, refuel and relocate Landsat 7, an Earth-observation satellite, to extend its life in LEO.
Space