Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Portugal has become the 60th nation to sign the Artemis Accords governing deep-space exploration.

X-Bow Systems on Jan. 12 announced it has completed preliminary design review of its new Mk-72 and Mk-104 solid rocket motors.

The U.S. and Taiwan will co-produce 155mm artillery shells in an expansion of joint defense manufacturing efforts, Taiwan’s Armaments Bureau said on Jan. 12.

A Jan. 11 SpaceX rideshare launch carried 40 payloads to orbit, including 10 satellites from Kepler Communications.

The U.S. Navy awarded Northrop Grumman $233 million to manufacture a new lightweight torpedo to be launched from the service’s fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft.

Germany has ordered eight General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian uncrewed aircraft systems to perform maritime patrol.

UK defense ministers will not say when a decision might be made on whether to contract for a £1 billion new fleet of medium helicopters.

A series of recent demonstrations have familiarized Boeing F/A-18E/F and Lockheed Martin F-35C pilots with Collaborative Combat Aircraft.

The UK’s chief of defense staff says he is unable provide a date for the publication of the Defense Investment Plan.

MaiaSpace, an ArianeGroup subsidiary developing a small, reusable launcher, has plans for a larger version with twice the payload, CEO Yohann Leroy said.

Israel has rarely shied away from defense industrial challenges, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pledge to wean the country off U.S. military financing support sets the bar at a new level.

Sweden is planning to invest a further $1.6 billion in air defense capability focused on protecting cities and civilian infrastructure.

China’s CAS Space says it has completed the first suborbital test flight of its Li Hong-1 reentry capsule, containing microgravity experiments.

China conducted the first flight of a domestically developed 3D-printed turbojet engine in November 2025.

Sweden is joining the list of European countries buying Iceye synthetic aperture radar (SAR) satellites.

India suffered a third-stage failure on its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) rocket on Jan. 12, leading to the loss of 15 satellites and a reentry capsule.

Eutelsat says it will buy another tranche of satellites from Airbus to build out its OneWeb low-Earth-orbit broadband communication system.

Dassault Aviation says it has invested $200 million in the Series B funding round of French artificial intelligence startup Harmattan AI.

The UK says its effort to rapidly develop a conventional ballistic missile under the recently launched Project Nightfall is aimed at arming Ukraine.

Norinco subsidiary Aisheng Technology Group has carried out the first flight of the Tian Ma TM-1000 large cargo UAS on Jan. 11.

Europe should establish a European Security Council to bolster its defense posture, Defense and Space Commissioner Andrius Kubilius argues.

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