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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, January 30, 2025

VOL. 291 NO. 20 January 30, 2025
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Daily Briefs

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Daily Briefs

Jan 30, 2025
GD reports earnings boost... SES secures loan for new satellites... SIGMA DEFENSE expands in Huntsville...

In Brief

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In Brief: F-35 Crashes At Eielson; Pilot Ejects

Jan 30, 2025
News in brief.

Funding & Policy

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ADS Chief Outlines Aerospace Ambitions For UK Industrial Strategy

Jan 29, 2025
ADS Chief Executive Kevin Craven warned that without an appropriate plan, the UK aerospace sector’s growth potential would remain “untapped.”

Programs

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GE Aerospace, Sikorsky Begin T901 Black Hawk Engine Runs

Jan 29, 2025
The engine runs took place at Sikorsky’s facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.
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Draken Europe To Provide Training For UK Royal Air Force, Navy

Jan 29, 2025
Draken Europe has been awarded a three-year, £173 million ($215.2 million) Interim Medium Speed Operational Readiness Training Services contract.
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Tehran Confirms Su-35 Purchase From Russia

Jan 29, 2025
Iran later tried to muddy the disclosure, deleting the reference to the Su-35.
Textron Aviation
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Royal Canadian Air Force Pilots To Train Using King Air 260s

Jan 27, 2025
Textron Aviation received its first international sale of seven Beechcraft King Air 260 military multi-engine training aircraft from SkyAlyne and KF Aerospace.
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Dream Chaser Clears Key Pre-Space Mission Test Hurdle

Jan 29, 2025
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a series of payload integration tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida which keep it on track for a planned mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
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Ballistic Missile Startup Castelion Raises $100 Million

Jan 29, 2025
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the $70 million Series A capital round.
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China Awards Production Certificate For Cargo eVTOL

Jan 28, 2025
The 2,000-kg (4,400-lb.) gross weight electric aircraft received its Chinese type certificate in March 2024.

Business

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Lithuanian Startup Pursuing Cyclorotor Propulsion For Middle-Mile Logistics

Jan 29, 2025
Lithuanian startup Airvolve has adopted horizontal-axis cyclorotor propulsion to develop a compact middle-mile logistics uncrewed air system.
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Pixxel Launches Initial Three Hyperspectral Satellites

Jan 21, 2025
The company, which has its origins in India, says its hyperspectral Earth observation satellites will have a 5-m resolution.
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New CEO, More Funding For Uncrewed Cargo eVTOL Startup Elroy

Jan 14, 2025
Andrew Clare has taken over as CEO from co-founder Dave Merrill.

Technology

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Aerospace Corp., Google To Jointly Develop Space Weather Prediction AI

Jan 29, 2025
The partners will use Vertix AI, Google Cloud’s machine learning platform, to analyze decades of solar activity data.

Program Dossier

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Program Dossier: Kawasaki C-2

Jan 30, 2025
The Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 is a medium airlifter that serves as the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) primary cargo lifter along with the C-130. More profiles of major military aircraft programs are available to Aviation Week Intelligence Network subscribers at awin.aviationweek.com.