In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Oct. 11 2022

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NASA has postponed a pair of International Space Station (ISS) spacewalks planned for Oct. 12 and Oct. 20 due to the leak of coolant earlier this week from a backup radiator on the seven-person orbital lab’s Russian segment Rassvet module.

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More AIM-9M Sidewinders are on the way to Ukraine to further bolster air defenses after the latest meeting of nations focused on aid for Kyiv, with the group now forming new coalitions focused on specific missions.

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Samples from the asteroid Bennu returned to Earth less than three weeks ago by NASA’s Osiris-Rex mission already are paying scientific dividends that promise to help explain how life began on Earth and better predict whether similar objects pose a future impact threat.

The U.S. Army in 2021 laid out an aggressive goal of fielding 24 prototype systems by the end of fiscal 2023, and though not all of the goals have been met, the exercise has reshaped the service’s acquisition process in positive ways, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth says.

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Boeing on Oct. 11 completed the first flight of an upgrade to its AH-64E Apache about two years after an award from the U.S. Army.

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Honeywell has started testing a second proposed option to upgrade the company’s 4,800-shp T55-GA-714A engine on the Boeing CH-47 Chinook, but U.S. Army officials remain silent on whether a propulsion upgrade will be funded.

Eight months after a Chinese spy balloon provocatively flew across North America, the U.S. Army has asked industry to submit ideas for demonstrating a similar high-altitude, long-endurance surveillance capability over the next six years.

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The UK Royal Air Force (RAF) has re-formed a squadron to fly the General Atomics Protector uncrewed aircraft system (UAS).

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European nations have pledged more defense equipment to Ukraine, but some countries are warning there maybe little left to give.

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Airbus and the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) have completed a three-week automatic refueling (A3R) flight-test campaign between the Airbus A330 Multi-Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) and the Boeing F-15SG.