Twelve-year-old Satellogic, an Earth observation satellite systems and analytics company, became publicly traded in late January after the reverse merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), as well as an 11th-hour investment boost via former Trump administration Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
The U.S. Air Force has launched a market survey for a newly christened F-35 Adaptive Engine Replacement program, disclosing the first details of a still-unfunded proposal to replace the Pratt & Whitney F135 within five years of a possible contract award in the first quarter of fiscal 2024.
Thales Australia welcomed the move, saying it will accelerate collaboration and represented “a boost to the development of Australian sovereign hypersonic weapon capability.”
Roscosmos plans to start testing the new Angara A5M and Soyuz-5 rockets as well as the Oryol spaceship, all of which are intended to replace legacy Soviet hardware still in operation.
Space debris removal startup Astroscale has halted an autonomous capture demonstration in low Earth orbit after detecting anomalous spacecraft conditions.
Hyundai’s urban air mobility company Supernal has partnered with the U.S. Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to study potential locations and energy demands for a vertiport network in Los Angeles.
D-Orbit, an 11-year-old Italian startup offering the Ion Satellite Carrier for in-orbit positioning, unveiled a go-public effort on Jan. 27 to start trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange in a deal that should provide it up to $185 million.
NASA and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are prepared to leverage a mutual and historically advantageous course in space, representatives from the two agencies say.
Airservices Australia has selected four unmanned traffic management providers to competitively prototype a flight information management system that will support the safe and efficient integration of drones and air taxis into the country’s low-altitude airspace.
The U.S. Air Force plans to approve the redesign of the KC-46 tanker’s troubled remote vision system without an independent assessment of how ready the technology is and a plan for how it will mature, and a government watchdog is urging the service to slow its approval to avoid becoming financially responsible for more possible problems in the future.
Northrop Grumman’s Aeronautics Systems division suffered increased worker absenteeism during the fourth quarter of 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to missed sales targets that led to more tepid financial results–and 2022 outlook–than investors expected.
The control systems for the booster fin have been identified for the first time as the culprits behind a series of flight test failures of the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon.
The U.S. Space Force is planning a series of its own high-level exercises to specifically train on individual mission areas—following the model of the service it grew out of.
German startup Lilium has moved its large-scale electric vertical takeoff and landing demonstrator to Spain to open up the flight envelope and begin testing a transition to high-speed, wing-borne flight.
NASA has identified 12 launch services providers eligible to contract for dedicated and rideshare launches to a range of destinations under the agency’s Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare initiative.
Australian startup Hypersonix has teamed up with Kratos Defense and Rocket Support Services to launch the Dart AE hypersonic drone as a technology demonstrator.
Boeing on Jan. 26 reported another charge of $402 million on the KC-46, bringing the total cost overruns for the tanker to about $5.4 billion, and the way the company announced it highlights an ongoing rift with the U.S. Air Force.
A Chinese spacecraft that disappeared from orbit on Jan. 22 appears to be serving as a “space tug,” raising a defunct Chinese navigation satellite thousands of kilometers beyond geostationary orbit, according to a company that operates a network of more than 350 optical telescopes around the world.
The U.S. Air Force’s premier combat training exercise, Red Flag, kicked off this week with a notable participant: an Australian E-7A Wedgetail that the American service is looking at buying.
Houston-based Celestis, which flies cremated remains in one of the more unique—and long-lived—commercial space service ventures, is adding a second payload on United Launch Alliance’s (ULA) debut Vulcan mission, slated to launch later this year.
Ahead of Boeing’s latest financial results released Jan. 26, financial analysts knew Boeing would be reporting on another ugly quarter and another ugly year.
The UK Ministry of Defense is buying five additional Airbus H135 twin-engine light helicopters to replace its long-serving fleet of Westland-built Aerospatiale Gazelles.
