Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Intuitive Machines (IM) has begun construction of a $40 million, 115,000-sq.-ft. lunar production and operations center at the Houston Spaceport to support plans to establish an annual cadence of commercial missions to the lunar surface.

The agreement will see South Africa use China’s Beidou Navigation Satellite System for geophysics, space science, geodetic surveys and other research.

Using a twin model of the flight rover, engineers are preparing for a post-landing egress test.

Adversary air operator Draken International is to purchase F-16s from Norway to support its U.S. training contracts.

The space telescope set to launch in 2023 has been built to address two of the most important questions in cosmology today: How did the universe originate and why is it expanding at an accelerating rate?

Opposing hypersonic glide missiles developed by North Korea and China is crucial both militarily and politically to South Korea.

Senior military leaders are joining together to warn Capitol Hill that there will be readiness problems if an appropriations bill is not approved.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told the Ronald Reagan National Defense Forum that the Pentagon is actively working to make it easier to land contracts and produce new, needed technologies at a time the Defense Department is desperate for innovation.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Dec. 4 that the department “is committed to ensuring Ukraine has what it needs to protect its sovereign territory.”

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The U.S. Air Force’s entire fleet had a mission-capable rate of 71.53% in fiscal 2021, a slight drop from 2020’s total rate of 72.74%.

The debris was forecast to pass as close as 1.86 mi. to the ISS.

The company acknowledged it had received a warning of noncompliance from the New York Stock Exchange.

The SLS is a cornerstone of NASA efforts to return to the Moon with human explorers and prepare for human expeditions to Mars.

The contract is significant for both countries and is France’s largest-ever arms export deal.

The Ka-62 variant started flight trials in 2017.

The combined company, to be traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, ostensibly will have a pro forma enterprise value of $974 million.

A demonstration of Raytheon’s thruster valve and nozzle will inform final design of Aerojet Rocketdyne DACS for the MDA’s future NGI.

The contracts mark kickoff of two-phase approach to moving from the government-owned ISS to a public-private outpost in low Earth orbit.

UK advanced air mobility startup Vertical Aerospace has set Dec. 14 for a vote on its planned going-public merger with blank-check company Broadstone

The service wants its systems to be smaller, more portable and more durable so that they can be deployed.

MRO services accounted for nearly 60% of job losses in the total Canadian aerospace industry during between 2019 and 2020.

Initially planned for Nov. 30, the excursion was delayed two days so that NASA could assess a possible orbital debris concern.

The cooperation agreement signed in Rome on Dec. 2 covers the supply of 18 Leonardo AW169M helicopters.

The upgrade is Honeywell’s answer to a move by GE Aviation to offer the more powerful T408 turboshaft engine as a future upgrade option.