Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The Nov. 8 operation had already been set when the resupply mission docked to the U.S. segment of the ISS earlier this week.

Hot-section turbine blade availability continues to pace CFM Leap new-engine production rates, but supplier Howmet insists its output is keeping up with demand.

The startup is developing a detect and avoid system that uses an air-to-air radar, among other tools, to avoid collisions with other aircraft.

Norris Tie launched the Torrance, California-based company in 2019 with seed financing from Y Combinator on a proposal to build a supersonic airliner.

The purchase was announced by Leonardo on Nov. 8.

The agreement is part of Glavkosmos’ broader deal with the recently established Alliance of Sahel States.

The memorandum of understanding will examine opportunities for joint capabilities and technologies.

Edge’s EPI engineering company has been contracted to manufacture and assemble the Cargo Compartment Removable Fuel Tanks.

The Zeus-1 and Zeus-2 motors completed a test launch from the NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, closing a three-year, $23 million development program.

The German parliament has given the green light to €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) in military satellite communication-related activities.

AVIC has unveiled a new class of large uncrewed combat aerial system designed to deliver both strike munitions and miniature drone swarms.

Israel’s F-15 acquisition aligns closely with the Aviation Week Intelligence Network’s (AWIN) 2025 Military Aircraft Market Forecast’s conclusions regarding acquisitions across the Middle East and North Africa region in the coming decade.

Joby’s 523-mi. (841-km) flight in a hydrogen-powered S4 air taxi over the summer was groundbreaking for two major reasons.

The BlackBird demonstrator is planned to fly in early 2025.

Switzerland’s Smartflyer rolled out is SFX1 prototype electric aircraft at Grenchen Airport on Nov. 6.

Chinese electric air taxi startups Vertaxi and Volant Aerotech have announced a slew of preorders.

The aircraft will use a hybrid-electric range extender that XPeng has introduced for its electric vehicles.

Boeing is reportedly considering potential asset sales as it struggles to improve its finances.

Leonardo expects the industrial agreement on the trinational Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) to be finalized before year’s end.

The company provided a static version of the two-person vehicle to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in September.

The U.S. military’s aeromedical evacuation (AE) personnel have become very specialized and good at what they do.

A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered a cold welding experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) on Nov. 5.

America’s defense industrial base is straining to meet rising demand for weapons systems driven by a worsening threat environment from Europe to the Indo-Pacific.

The ALQ-254(V)1 Viper Shield system passed a safety of flight check, clearing the system for flight tests to begin “soon” and deliveries to start in late 2025.

The UMCS is initially developed to operate the Boeing MQ-25 Stingray on board Navy carriers.