Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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SPACEX launches NROL-95... RANGEVIEW developing cast components for KRATOS...
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By Garrett Reim
The Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital has made an up to $820 million conditional loan commitment to Performance Drone Works (PDW) to expand domestic drone component manufacturing.
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Rafael Tests Longer-Range Spyder Air Defense Interceptors
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By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force is kicking off a decade-long program for testing and training infrastructure, and has tapped 15 companies for the contractor pool.
Operations & Safety

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force’s series of upgrades to the B-52 bomber face cost and schedule growth, a new report says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
EASA certified Safran’s Arriel 2K engine, moving Leonardo’s AW09 helicopter closer to year-end certification.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Defense officials from the Global Combat Air Program nations have discussed advancing the service entry of the new fighter by up to two years.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Hensoldt is starting to see serious export interest in Europe for its Pegasus signals intelligence aircraft as it also gears up for the competition in Germany to provide the luWES airborne electronic attack system, CEO Oliver Dörre said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Airbus will build a new Spanish secure communications satellite after the loss of the SpainSat NG-II military communications spacecraft.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce's Orpheus demonstrator engine is now evolving into a family of propulsion systems with a particular focus on autonomous collaborative combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace Industries has begun taxi trials of the first fully representative prototype of the Kaan combat aircraft, imagery released by the airframer reveals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
GKN Aerospace has restarted some activities at its Garden Grove, California, industrial site after an industrial mishap, but parent company Melrose is not sure when the site will be fully operational again.
Supply Chain

By Craig Caffrey
In the midst of NATO’s Ankara summit in July, the alliance released its latest set of data on the defense budgets of its member states, showing further significant increases in military spending.
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By Chen Chuanren
The Philippine Air Force is looking beyond the acquisition of a new multi-role fighter as it transitions from counterinsurgency operations to territorial defense.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Starfighters Space, an aerospace company with a fleet of Mach 2-capable Lockheed F-104s, expects to start flight tests before year-end of a purpose-built adapter capable of evaluating multiple high-speed designs and experiments.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Guy Norris
High-speed aircraft developer Hermeus has successfully deployed an inert weapon from its Quarterhorse Mk. 2.1 unpiloted vehicle over New Mexico.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Japan has conducted its first live-fire test of the RTX BGM-109 Tomahawk land-attack cruise missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX released images taken by Starlink Version 3 (V3) satellites that conducted 20-min. inflight demonstrations as part of the July 24 Starship-Super Heavy flight test.
Commercial Space

By Molly McMillin
Bombardier is searching for a site in Canada where it can perform defense-related modifications to its business jets, including to the Global 6500 long-range business jet used as a GlobalEye surveillance aircraft, and other aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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EU Approves Gripen Funds For Ukraine
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By Mark Carreau
NASA plans an Aug. 6 spacewalk to prepare for the installation of power-augmenting Roll Out Solar Arrays on the International Space Station.
Operations & Safety

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ROCKET ONE licenses NASA avionics system... SOPHIA SPACE receives space data center patent... New CFO for SIDUS SPACE...
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By Steve Trimble
A newly obtained document reveals the full scope of the U.S. Navy’s preliminary plans for replacing all members of the venerable, RTX-made Standard Missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is moving ahead on its plan to have the Sikorsky HH-60W Jolly Green II take on the continuity-of-government and VIP transport role in the Washington area
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit has launched a new $100 million competition to use uncrewed surface vessels to launch UAS to hunt low-cost threats.
Aircraft & Propulsion