Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Thierry Dubois
After the termination of the trinational New Generation Fighter program, Dassault Aviation is gearing up to work on a Rafale successor on its own.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Innospace Hanbit-Nano Pad Return Slips
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GKN expands in New Hampshire... ROCKET LAB gets Space Force suborbital launch contract... BELL TRAINING ACADEMY announces milestone...
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By Mark Carreau
NASA is developing a sustainable human moon base with an evolving architecture likely to look different than currently perceived to address technical and scientific challenges.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
NASA joined the White House's Genesis Mission to accelerate AI-driven scientific research, engineering and space operations.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Irene Klotz
With lunar landings and future human missions to Mars as its goal, NASA and the U.S. space community should have a hard think about how they assess risk.
Space Exploration

By Tony Osborne
The UK defense ministry is set to spend £20 million ($26.7 million) to develop a hypersonic target to generate data in support of air and missile defense.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Sikorsky and Safran agreed to expand propulsion collaboration for next-generation rotorcraft targeting commercial and defense markets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Germany seeks approval for four additional P-8As while pursuing renewed anti-ship strike and air-launched capabilities.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Innospace delayed the Hanbit-Nano return-to-flight launch to November following last year's launch failure investigation.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Navy has picked CoAspire’s Rapidly Adaptable Affordable Cruise Missile-Extended Range for a new program aimed at quickly delivering low-cost missiles to foreign partners.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
The sensor and power providers for the Edgewing GCAP fighter will spend the project phase turning concepts into technology demonstrations to mature capabilities for the detailed design phase.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
Shield AI is progressing on building its initial X-BAT autonomous fighters after it announced that it had fired its thrust-vectoring engine for the first time.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems has unveiled Brontanax, its eagerly awaited collaborative combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems compressed 18 months of work to develop a low-cost anti-drone capability for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) Eurofighter Typhoon into just 42 days, the company has revealed.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Relativity Space plans to add production and test facilities as well as launch support infrastructure for its Terran R program at Cape Canaveral SFS.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
Leonardo plans to hold on to its stake in German defense electronics specialist Hensoldt, according to the CEO of the Italian defense giant, Lorenzo Mariani.
Supply Chain

Aviation Week Staff
PBS GROUP partners with AIRLOGIX of Ukraine... IHI, KUVA SPACE to study hyperspectral constellation for Japan.. JHUAPL gets $200m Sentinel award...
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Pratt & Whitney Unveils ‘Valox’ CCA Engine Family
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By Mark Carreau
Venus Aerospace and Lockheed Martin have entered a collaboration agreement for evaluation of the Houston-based company’s rotating detonation rocket engine (RDRE) technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
A trio of senior officials is on deck, ready to usher in a new era of U.S. military space.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Anna Sliwon-Stewart
Sustaining success in Angola’s counter-insurgency missions will require continued investment in key air power capabilities, and the country’s air force has set several important modernization programs in motion.
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By Robert Wall
Airbus seeks a major role in Europe's next-generation fighter while exploring new partnerships after FCAS collapsed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Leonardo's CEO pledged to accelerate LEO and missile defense programs, announcing Indonesian M-346F fighter sale.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall, Tony Osborne
Canada has formally joined the Global Combat Air Program as an observer.
Aircraft & Propulsion