Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Mark Carreau
The joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will undergo another independent review board assessment later this year.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The test of the Software Programmable Open Mission Systems Compliant radio terminal was developed under an Air Force Life Cycle Management Center contract.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Slovakia has become the first country to declare it has delivered operational crewed combat aircraft to Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A prime contractor role in the defense market remains a distant but intriguing possibility for Canadian aircraft manufacturer.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Finland has begun allowing allies to conduct surveillance flights along the country’s 1,300-km border with Russia.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The budget documents offer the first glimpse of the procurement profile for the boost-glide missile that is common with the Army's Long Range Hypersonic Weapon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
NATO’s multinational aerial refueling unit is to receive a 10th aircraft, partner nations have agreed.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The latest setback means the IOC milestone is now expected nearly two years after the original schedule set at contract award to Boeing in August 2018.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mike Gruntman
It is time to build a space-based missile defense layer.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Ben Goldstein
Åland is a cluster of islands located in the Baltic Sea between Finland and Sweden.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Boeing has begun building new infrastructure to support the operation of the UK RAF's new fleet of E-7 airborne early warning aircraft in Scotland.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
While the EC has initially referred to a 5% SAF incorporation target for 2030, the industry has been lobbying for a greater proportion.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Jen DiMascio
The two-stage, 110-ft.-tall rocket was produced using primarily 3D-printing.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
The energy density achieved is up to twice that provided by commercially available graphite-anode lithium-ion batteries.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The point-to-point flight is estimated to take about 10 min. in Archer’s Midnight electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
UK startup Vertical Aerospace plans to seek additional investment this year to continue development of its VX4 eVTOL air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Apollo missions to the Moon a half century ago lacked the challenges that the agency’s Artemis program faces, says NASA official Bhavya Lal.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin Ventures has invested in electric seaglider startup Regent to speed up the development of a military variant of the company’s aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The fiscal 2024 budget request shows the Air Force wants to revive the flight demonstration program five years after testing an initial version of the aircraft.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Ben Goldstein
The newly appointed CEO of Jetson predicts that some of the earliest adopters of electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles will be private owners.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Boeing will record another charge on its star-crossed KC-46A tanker program for the U.S. Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Israel’s Aeronautics Group will see its Orbiter 4 uncrewed aircraft system being manufactured and assembled in Thailand.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Ampaire has begun flight-testing propulsion electrification technologies on its hybrid-electric testbed aircraft under contract to ARPA-E.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The offer serves as “indirect compensation” for donating 13 Mikoyan MiG-29s and parts of an SA-6 battery to Ukraine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S Air Force launched the program with the intention of inducting all 178 T-1As in the Avionics Modification program, but later decided to retire the fleet
Light Attack and Advanced Training