Defense

By Chen Chuanren, Kim Minseok
Two fighter jets have crashed in East Asia within hours of each other in separate accidents, at least one of which has resulted in a fatality.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
New factory to build prototypes for developmental and operational testing through 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
HawkEye 360, a commercial provider of space-based radio frequency data and analytics, has added Leidos to its Series D venture capital round.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Aerospace supplier and UAV maker Kaman has restructured into three business segments from one to provide investors and stakeholders more visibility into the company’s operations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Navy officer asked the Skunk Works representative at the Lockheed Martin exhibit booth an impromptu question during the U.S. Air Force’s Weapons and Tactics Conference in the fall of 2020.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Katherine Calvin has been named NASA’s chief scientist and senior climate advisor, Administrator Bill Nelson has announced.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The first UK military air traffic control facility to be modernized under the defense ministry’s £1.5 billion ($2.03 billion) Project Marshall has become operational.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Johannes Müller to Head of Communications and Head of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) of Airbus Defence and Space.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
France’s Gendarmerie is set to become the first law enforcement operator of the new Airbus H160 twin-engine medium helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has encountered another “small” obstacle in its campaign to collect and cache samples of rocky materials from the floor of the red planet.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The plan to fix the KC-46’s troubled Remote Vision System (RVS) is delayed as the U.S. Air Force and Boeing try to work through a longstanding issue with the aircraft’s panoramic visual system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren, Kim Minseok
The South Korean defense ministry has played down Pyongyang’s claim that it successfully tested a hypersonic missile on Jan. 5, saying that North Korea had instead launched a Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Shares in Momentus have fallen 60% since the space-tug startup went public in August 2021.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Military requirements for processing power are starting to diverge from the best that commercial industry can offer.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
Two weeks after the JWST was launched into orbit, the final segment of its 21-ft.-dia. primary mirror—the largest mirror ever flown on a space observatory—was rotated into position, completing NASA’s risky and most technically complicated series of in-space deployments.
Space

By Guy Norris
Following the revelation in December that the U.S. Air Force plans to launch two new unmanned combat air vehicle programs, the service’s chief scientist says tactical autonomy and the use of manned-unmanned teaming “will become the next step in the evolution of the Department of the Air Force.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Flight controllers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore are closing in on the final steps to reconfigure the James Webb Space Telescope, with the first of two primary mirror wing panels extended and latched into place on Jan. 7.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Space Force’s two launch ranges have a shortage of spare parts for critical systems, which could impact future launches as the service projects a vast increase in missions, a new Pentagon report says.
Space

By Irene Klotz
After contributing 31 flights to a global record 146 orbital launches in 2021, SpaceX kicked off the new year by adding another 49 new satellites to its growing Starlink broadband network.
Commercial Space

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei’s trek toward a new U.S. record for human spaceflight marches on.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace (TAI) has opened a wave of new facilities as the company prepares for the development and production of an indigenous combat aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
Arianespace may perform up to 17 launches in 2022 with its family of Ariane, Soyuz and Vega rockets, according to CEO Stephane Israel.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Bangladesh appears set to purchase Russian Mil Mi-28NE attack helicopters ahead of Boeing AH-64E Apache.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
After a painful, prolonged development, NASA’s new space telescope is on its way.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace