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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, September 19, 2025

VOL. 293 NO. 57 September 19, 2025
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Programs

Boeing E-7A Wedgetail rendering. Credit: Boeing
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USAF E-7 Rapid Prototypes To Be Assembled In UK

Sep 18, 2025
Boeing is to assemble the two rapid prototypes of its E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning platform in the UK.
U.S. Marine Corps Tactical Resupply UAS. Credit: U.S. Marine Corps
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Marine Corps Looking For Autonomous, VTOL Supply Aircraft

Sep 18, 2025
The U.S. Marine Corps is looking for a new autonomous, vertical take off and landing system to supply austere locations.
An E-2D lands on the USS Harry S Truman in August 2024. Credit: U.S. Navy
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Northrop To Develop E-2D Precision Approach Landing Capability

Sep 18, 2025
The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman are starting a process to address the airborne early warning and control aircraft's lack of a precision landing aid.
Dassault Aviation rendering of vortex spaceplane
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Vortex Spaceplane Demo Targets Thermal Protection, Controls

Sep 18, 2025
The French Vortex spaceplane demonstrator program will aim to validate heat shield technology and different control capabilities once it takes flight.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Operations

The U.S. and U.K. jointly conducted a rendezvous proximity operation Sept. 4-12. Credit: Royal Air Force
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U.S., UK Conduct Joint Rendezvous And Proximity Operation

Sep 18, 2025
UK Space Command and U.S. Space Command have conducted the two nations’ first joint military operation in space.
credit: NASA
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Cygnus XL Resupply Capsule Reaches Space Station Despite Delay

Sep 18, 2025
The resupply capsule’s delayed rendezvous was due to the premature cutoff of the third and fifth post-launch orbital altitude raising maneuvers early Sept. 16.
Caption: The ride hailing company also invested in the drone startup Credit: Uber Technologies
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Uber Eats To Launch Autonomous Drone Delivery Pilot Program

Sep 18, 2025
Uber Technologies has signed a “strategic partnership” with drone delivery company Flytrex of Tel Aviv, Israel, to start delivering food as part of an Uber Eats pilot program.
Aerial view of rocket launching
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Latitude Postpones Microlauncher First Flight To Late 2026

Sep 17, 2025
Latitude’s Zephyr microlauncher will fly at the end of next year, a one-year delay from its earlier schedule, commercial director Adeline Pitrois said Sept. 17.

Technology

rendering by lockheed martin
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DARPA Solicits Bids For Hypersonic Engine System Design Study

Sep 18, 2025
DARPA will kick off development of a High-Mach Gas Turbine engine with a 15-month project worth up to $40 million.

Funding & Policy

AeroVironment, Taiwan’s NCSIST Sign Defense MOU
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AeroVironment, Taiwan’s NCSIST Sign Defense MOU

Sep 18, 2025
U.S. drone manufacturer AeroVironment has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology.
credit: Aleksey Gulyaev/Alamy Stock Photo
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U.S., Ukraine Commit $150M For Critical Minerals Development

Sep 17, 2025
The U.S. and Ukraine will jointly invest $150 million in a fund that will help rebuild the country and develop its vast critical minerals resources,

Business

earth from space
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Defense Earth-Observation Growth To Outpace Civil Market

Sep 16, 2025
The defense market will become the biggest growth driver for the space-based remote sensing industry, Novaspace analysts estimate.
Credit: True Anomaly
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True Anomaly Eyes GEO, Payload Milestones In 2026

Sep 18, 2025
True Anomaly next year aims to achieve key milestones to underpin the defense space startup’s growth strategy, including the first demonstration of its Jackal spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit.
Tekever Swindon site
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Tekever Details Plans To Build UAS At New British Site

Sep 16, 2025
Portuguese uncrewed air system developer Tekever is to build its air vehicles in Swindon, England, as part of its $545 million Overmatch investment strategy.

The Debrief

jupiter marble
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Debrief: Beware The Continuing Resolution Gap

Sep 18, 2025
The Trump administration’s proposal to reduce NASA’s budget by 24% has so far met a solid rebuke in Congress.

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