Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The defense market will become the biggest growth driver for the space-based remote sensing industry, Novaspace analysts estimate.

A new layer of high-altitude platforms carrying optical tracking sensors could be added to the U.S. missile defense architecture in the future.

Taiwanese flight academy Apex Aviation is teaming up with Teledyne and Italy’s Tecnam on a customized maritime reconnaissance aircraft for Taiwan.

Bastion Technologies Inc. has been awarded a $400 million contract by NASA to provide safety and mission assurance for Marshall Space Flight Center.

The U.S. Air Force has begun conversion of the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747-8 to become a new presidential airlift aircraft.

Laser company Cailabs has raised €57 million in additional financing and plans to test space-to-Earth optical communications with satellite operator SES.

The Swedish developers of a low-cost anti-drone effector are working on a longer-range loitering munition capable of engaging targets beyond line of sight.

Digital and additive manufacturing newcomer Divergent Technologies has closed a $290 million venture capital round, the company announced Sept. 15.

Telesat’s in-development LightSpeed constellation could meet the EU’s needs until the IRIS² communication satellites are in orbit.

The United Arab Emirates’ Space42 and Viasat have agreed to jointly pursue direct-to-device global satellite services.

Launch service operator Arianespace will loft another two Ariane 6s this year.

Isar Aerospace has shipped the first stage for its second Spectrum rocket to Norway to gear up for a second launch attempt.

UK engineers have been exploring the use of the Link 16 datalink as an initial means of commanding autonomous collaborative platforms.

Union workers at GE Aerospace in the Cincinnati area are set to decide whether to ratify a tentative agreement reached with the engine OEM.

The dominance of government money in space infrastructure investment and the emergence of direct-to-device comms are to define sat manufacturing.

Startup Certo Aerospace, developing an uncrewed co-axial rotorcraft, has won a UK Defense Ministry contract to demonstrate logistics and medevac capabilities.

BAE Systems is hoping to accelerate the integration of the European Common Radar System Mk. 2 into the UK’s Eurofighter Typhoons.

Days after Russian drone incursions into Poland and Romania, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to NATO countries to invest in his country’s low-cost interceptors.

SpaceX sees its Falcon 9 launch cadence peaking as the company ramps up operations of its Starship launch vehicle, a company executive says.

Singapore is exploring additional airborne capabilities to complement its future fleet of Boeing P-8A Poseidons, which are scheduled to enter service in the early 2030s.

EchoStar is in the early days of adapting its business plan after abandoning a strategy to deploy a constellation of low-Earth-orbit satellites.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Sept. 14 to send Northrup Grumman’s first upgraded Cygnus XL cargo ship on its way to the International Space Station.

Russia’s Progress MS-32 carries a 2.8-ton cargo including food, crew supplies and propellant for maneuvering the space station.

Given the delays so far, it remains unlikely that Supernal can enter service any time before early next decade at the soonest

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers District 837 in the St. Louis area voted Sept. 12 not to accept the latest offer from Boeing.