Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Robert Wall
Starlink plans to expand beyond 100,000 satellites with V3 designs, boosting bandwidth 100 times to meet AI and robotics data demands.
Emerging Technologies

By Robert Wall
China suffered the loss of a Long March 7A rocket on launch in a rare setback for the country’s launch operations.
Operations & Safety

By Graham Warwick
DARPA’s Lift Challenge pushes drone payload-to-weight limits, with Avidrone winning by carrying 3.84 times its weight over a 5-mi. course.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
The UK has launched a long-awaited tender to replace the BAE Systems Hawks jet trainers used for advanced training and by the Red Arrows aerobatic team.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Marine Corps has ordered a new vehicle-mounted high-power microwave system from Epirus for point defense from drones as the Pentagon continues to expand its defensive systems for deployed troops.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week Staff
ULA Completes LEO-Optimized Vulcan Wet Dress
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DUCOMMUN reports strong quarter... BOEING gets Evolved Strategic Satcom award... New HR chief at CACI INTERNATIONAL...
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By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Navy plans to field 31 of its next-generation nuclear command-and-control aircraft to replace a current fleet of about half that number.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Garrett Reim
Shield AI and Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology demonstrated three drones working together as part of an autonomous search mission in Taiwan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Not much is known about the new engine for the trinational Global Combat Air Program fighter aircraft, but a detailed model suggests it will be unlike any propulsion system yet developed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Canadian government on Aug. 7 announced the conditional sale of 10 retired Lockheed Martin C-130Hs to British Columbia-based Coulson Aviation.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
Airbus reimagines its next-generation single aisle as a flexible system platform, enabling updates with evolving technologies like electrification and AI.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army has opened a new website to make reserving space on its test ranges as easy as grabbing a table at a restaurant.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
United Launch Alliance says it has wrapped up a wet dress rehearsal of the Vulcan rocket and a Centaur V upper stage tweaked to better support Amazon Leo constellation deployment.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey have signed a three-way defense pact declaring that any aggression on one country will be considered an attack against all three.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
A Greek startup is proposing an autonomous amphibious firefighting aircraft aimed at removing aircrews from the perilous conditions associated with aerial firefighting.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Senate on Aug. 6 confirmed Lt. Gen. Douglas Schiess to serve as the third uniformed leader of the U.S. Space Force.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Robert Wall
The EU and the Spacerise industrial consortium working to deploy IRIS²have agreed to expand the planned constellation by 66 low-Earth-orbit (LEO) spacecraft.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The Canadian Space Agency has formalized its plan to pivot work on the Canadarm3 to exploration on the Moon.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The European Union’s flagship IRIS² broadband satellite constellation process has passed the so-called Rendezvous One review, allowing the program to progress to its operational phase, Eutelsat CEO Jean-François Fallacher says.
Satellites

By Michael Bruno
Howmet, a cornerstone of blade-making for power generation anywhere, is being commanded by data center demand like other parts of the macro-economy.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Daniel Williams
Europe has seen almost 1,500 wildfires in recent weeks, consuming nearly 450,000 hectares of land. Flight Friday looks at global monthly flight hours of dedicated firefighting aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Los Angeles-based Hadrian Automation, a defense technology startup focused on advanced manufacturing, on Aug. 6 announced $1.37 billion in new equity financing.
Supply Chain

Aviation Week Staff
SATELLOGIC reports positive quarter... GD elects Deep to corporate director position... VERTEX AEROSPACE gets F-5 labor cost adjustment award...
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By Irene Klotz
A Redwire Space subsidiary has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch, host and return a Starfall capsule carrying pharmaceutical samples for microgravity research.
Commercial Space