Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Guy Norris
Lt. Gen. John Shaw, senior U.S. Space Force officer at Space Command, says challenges will grow as vehicles become more complex and operate further from Earth.
Space

By Guy Norris
Lockheed's planned flight tests are part of final preparations for the partial deployment of the U.S. Army’s first Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon before 2024.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Progress has been slow on Blue Origin's New Glenn orbital launch system under Bob Smith’s watch, with an expected 2024 debut coming four years behind schedule.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Joby Aviation has signed a collaboration agreement with South Korea’s SK Telecom to provide an aircraft for in-country flight testing in 2024 under the Korean Urban Air Mobility (K-UAM) Grand Challenge.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
French startup VoltAero has flown its Cassio S hybrid-electric propulsion testbed on 100% sustainable fuel.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
The Osiris-Rex sample canister with material gathered from the surface of the asteroid Bennu was flown on Sept. 25 from its landing site in the Utah desert to NASA’s Johnson Space Center.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The $705 million contract for the Stand-in Attack Weapon calls for Northrop Grumman to have the new missile ready to to enter service in 2026.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The Pentagon still lacks a plan to successfully wrestle sustainment functions away from the collection of contractors that now jealously own those roles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Rain, a developer of an uncrewed firefighting helicopter technology, has raised a $9.7 million seed round of financing.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Poland’s defense ministry has contracted a first offset agreement associated with the acquisition of its planned Boeing Apache attack helicopter fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
The launch customer for the Pioneer Edition of the Lilium Jet has already sold an undisclosed number of its initial batch of 10 aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is putting its upgraded Lockheed Martin F-16 D+ Block 52 through its paces at Exercise Forging Saber.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has unveiled a third technology demonstrator, this time based on its H145 twin-engine light rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Yemen’s Houthi movement has restored a Northrop F-5 Tiger combat aircraft to flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Joby Aviation delivered its first S4 electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to the U.S. Air Force at Edwards AFB, California, on Sept. 25.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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By Irene Klotz
The largest haul of extraterrestrial samples since Apollo 17 landed in Utah on Sept. 24 after being collected by the Osiris-REx spacecraft.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Satellite-based remote sensing startup Satellogic said Sept. 21 it will not launch any more satellites until at least the first quarter of 2024.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall announced this plan during a speech earlier this month at the Air and Space Force Association’s Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Paramount is seeking additional production capacity for its Mwari multimission aircraft.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is planning to stagger replacements of a troublesome part of the V-22 Osprey’s clutch to limit impacts to the fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. startup Jump Aero has announced the sale of 10 fast-response electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicles to Australian company Electro Ventures.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.s. Air Force Special Operations Command plan is called the Adaptive Airborne Enterprise.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters says it is testing a new architecture for its H135 twin-engine light helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The German defense ministry has completed trials of a laser weapon demonstrator that could equip warships for anti-drone defense.
Missile Defense & Weapons