Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded Space & Technology Solutions a potential $719 million contract for the support of work on the agency’s Joint Polar Satellite System.
Space

By Guy Norris
Relativity Space is focusing on a rapid test series for its liquid oxygen/methane (LOx/CH4) Aeon R rocket engine.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
NASA has selected Aerospace Corp. to run the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities.
Space

By Graham Warwick
German aerospace center DLR has showcased its research into sustainable aircraft with the unveiling of several concepts at Aero Friedrichshafen.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman says he is starting to define how its personnel will turn satellite data into actionable targeting information.
Defense

By Garrett Reim
Space Forge of the UK, a startup developing a spacecraft for manufacturing goods in space and delivering them to Earth, plans to launch U.S. manufacturing.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has an unlikely message to Congress: Give up some of your authority.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
GE Aerospace becomes the latest F-35 supplier to be converted by Lockheed Martin to a multi-year performance based logistics deal.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The Pentagon is beginning an effort to link commercial space innovations with U.S. military needs, to speed their entry into government use.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris, Joe Anselmo
The leader of bankrupt space company Virgin Orbit says it is seeing active interest from a “diverse group” of potential buyers.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA administrator acknowledges the cost and schedule issues across some of its most challenging human deep-space exploration and space-science objectives.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Ben Goldstein
The burgeoning regional air mobility (RAM) movement could revitalize point-to-point travel to underused airports.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
An allegedly leaked U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency report suggests China has almost or already established its first supersonic UAS unit.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Russian cosmonauts conducted a nearly 8-hr. spacewalk outside the International Space Station in which they moved an almost 1,100-lb. radiator.
Space

By Steve Trimble
DMEA’s staff has recently been assigned a new task in response to urgent calls by Ukraine to replenish a rapidly depleting arsenal of air defense systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week Network
Russia plans to send the Venera-D exploration mission to Venus without NASA participation, albeit with less ambitious scientific goals.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The NRO and Space Force will launch the SilentBarker satellite later this year.
Space

By Garrett Reim
U.S. Space Systems Command is closely watching SpaceX’s launch test of the fully reusable Starship/ Super Heavy launch vehicle, planned for April 20.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The NRO has been experimenting with components of systems that could contribute to a ground-moving target indication mission from orbit.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
LightRidge Solutions, a private equity portfolio, is building space-based assets that offer protection designed to protect against on-orbit attacks.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The National Reconnaissance Office wants new technologies and processing for electro-optical imaging.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin has decided to not pursue any further legal action to overturn the U.S. Army’s selection of the Bell V-280 Valor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The U.S. Space Force’s upcoming competition for national security space launch service will be open to novel heavy- and superheavy new boosters.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Lockheed Martin’s failed bid for the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft program included “aggressive pricing,” the company’s chief financial officer says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The first Dream Chaser, DC-101 Tenacity, is set to launch on the second flight of the Vulcan Centaur.
Commercial Space