Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Ben Goldstein
The AAM Stock Composite slid by around 4% in the week ending Aug. 11.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Emirati defense group EDGE has reached a strategic agreement with Brazilian turbine engine producer Turbomachine.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Video appears to show the Rocketsan-developed sounding rocket being tube-launched from a new launch site on Turkey’s westernmost Black Sea coast.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S.-Japan partnership is reportedly intended to counter growing threats of hypersonic missile technology from China, North Korea and Russia.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan's latest iteration of the Tien Chien missile is estimated to have a range of 99 mi. and will be compatible with joint helmet-mounted cueing systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Telesat is switching contractors to build satellites for its planned Lightspeed broadband communications network.
Commercial Space

Apurva Mahajan
The distinctive pattern of preserved mud cracks found by NASA’s Curiosity rover offers evidence which could mean the planet had potential for microbial life.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Astranis plans to launch by year’s end its UtilitySat, a multiband and relocatable small communications satellite.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Company is moving ahead with efforts to raise the TRL of its long-in-development VASIMR for a future in-space demonstration.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The Cygnus resupply capsule fired its delta velocity thruster early Aug. 11 to raise the International Space Station’s orbit.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Danish F-35s will land in Denmark for the first time on Oct. 1.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Apurva Mahajan
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter has completed its 54th flight on Mars, performing a 25-sec. up-and-down hop on the surface.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Aero Challenge Group is to invest “a double-digit million Euro sum” in development of the aircraft designed to carry 1,000 kg of payload or eight passengers.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Luna-25, the first Russian lunar exploration mission in almost 50 years, is bound for the Moon.
Space

By Tony Osborne
German satellite launcher developer Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) has secured €30 million ($32.8 million) from global investment firm KKR.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
The second payment for the Rafales brings the total confirmed aircraft for Indonesia to 24, adding to the six fighters that were paid for in September 2022.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The long-awaited report into the loss of F-35B ZM152 makes 46 recommendations to the joint Royal Navy-Royal Air Force organization operating the F-35.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Poland has launched negotiations to order 22 Leonardo AW101 battlefield helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Archer Aviation has raised a $215 million funding round led by automaker Stellantis.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Despite developing Parkinson’s disease, one of Virgin Galactic’s first customers boarded the company’s VSS Unity spaceship for a suborbital ride.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is now the acquisition executive for the large-scale plan to defend Guam from air and missile threats.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to launch the two prototype satellites for its Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor system later this year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Archer Aviation has agreed to settle an intellectual property theft lawsuit filed against it by rival Wisk Aero.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The THAAD and PAC-3 MSE integration was a long, multiyear effort that was fielded and accepted earlier this year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Ben Goldstein
The Hexa is a single-seat, unwinged multicopter with a range of 15 mi. (24 km) and maximum cruise speed of 55 kt.
Advanced Air Mobility