Defense

The U.S. Army plans to increase its Patriot missile defense units even as it faces intense recruiting issues sparked by a congressional push to grow its force.

Russia has started to modernize its Glonass space-based navigation system with a new generation of satellites.

Northrop Grumman is accelerating its proposal and says it could deliver its Next Generation Interceptor prototype as early as 2026.

Space tourism company makes room for experiments and prototypes.

Lockheed Martin has opened a 20,000-ft.2 small satellite assembly facility at its Waterton campus in Littleton, Colorado.

Amazon plans to take advantage of an earlier opportunity to fly a pair of test satellites for its Kuiper broadband constellation.

Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.

Pale Blue has won a contract to provide its Resitojet water-vapor based propulsion system for a pair of 6U cubesats.

Instead of shooting down the next buoyant airspace intruder, DARPA wants to find a way to haul high-altitude balloons down safely from up to 75,000 ft.

The company announced Aug. 7 that all elements of its NGI have been validated ahead of another PDR for the entire all-up round.

Turkish uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) manufacturer Baykar is to undertake research and development activities in Pakistan under a new project led by the Pakistan Air Force.

The Army’s Program Executive Office-Soldier last month announced creation of the Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance (LASSO) program.

The UK has provided Ukraine with a new rapidly developed air defense capability based on MBDA’s Advanced Short-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Asraam).

Turkish Baykar-developed UAS and their associated weapons and sensors will be produced in Saudi Arabia under new export agreements between Ankara and Riyadh.

The Japan Air Self Defense Force's Kawasaki C-2 airlifter could carry long-range anti-surface missiles that ignite after being air dropped.

SpaceX has hot fired the engines of its next Super Heavy booster as it prepared for a second flight test of an integrated Starship-Super Heavy vehicle.

A new U.S. effort to prove technology for reusable hypersonic flight is inching forward as government scientists seek information on industry-funded projects.

India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft reached lunar orbit on Aug. 5, setting the stage for a landing attempt on the Moon's south pole later this month.

The resumption of communications through NASA’s Deep Space Network follows a “shout” command transmitted to the probe by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA has reassigned astronaut Jeannette Epps, who has been awaiting a spaceflight since joining the astronaut corps in 2009, to the SpaceX Crew-8 mission.

The U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin are beginning the second phase of yearly iterative updates to the F-22 fleet.

The next increment of OASuW is the Hypersonic Air-Launched Offensive (HALO) weapon, first disclosed in a budget request in 2022 with prototypes expected this year.

The Zeus, a low-cost motor, designed to power Kratos’ Erinyes and Dark Fury hypersonic vehicles, completed a successful ground test in Arkansas.

Poland has begun flight testing its first Korea Aerospace Industries FA-50 fighter in-country.

Kraus Hamdani Aerospace’s 42.5-lb. K1000ULE aircraft completed a 75-hr., 53-min. non-stop, unrefueled flight in late July.