In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Sep. 27 2022

Credit: Polish Ministry of National Defense. Having made significant progress in modernizing its air power capabilities since Joining NATO in 1999, Poland has now been forced to accelerate this process by the war in Ukraine. 

Credit: NASA. NASA is looking to mid-November as the most likely opportunity for its next attempt at launching the Artemis I test flight around the Moon, though it has not completely ruled out a late-October opportunity, agency officials said Sept. 27.

Credit: ClearSpace.The UK Space Agency has awarded £4 million ($4.3 million) to two companies—ClearSpace and Astroscale—to design spacecraft capable of removing space debris, such as defunct satellites.

Credit: Senior Airman Helena Owens/U.S. Air Force illustration. All of the fatal civilian casualties caused by U.S. airstrikes in 2021 occurred in the waning days of the war in Afghanistan, according to a new report, as the Pentagon promises a new mitigation plan will further lessen the number of innocents harmed.

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Credit: U.S. Army. The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a second yearly contract for early operational capability (EOC) versions of the Precision Strike Missile (PRSM).

Credit: Kim Minseok. Korean Airlines Aerospace Division (KAL-ASD) has released more details concerning its KUS-LW “loyal wingman” concept, weeks after the company was chosen to design a low-observable unmanned wingman technology demonstrator for the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF). 

Credit: Electra.aero. MintAir, a startup that plans to become an advanced air mobility (AAM) operator in South Korea, has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with Electra.aero to acquire 50 electric short takeoff and landing (eSTOL) aircraft for passenger and cargo regional air mobility services.

Credit: Eviation. Eviation successfully conducted the first flight of the Alice all-electric commuter and cargo aircraft prototype from Moses Lake, Washington, on Sept. 27, marking a major milestone on the road towards the fielding of a new generation of sustainable air vehicles.