Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The engine runs took place at Sikorsky’s facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Draken Europe has been awarded a three-year, £173 million ($215.2 million) Interim Medium Speed Operational Readiness Training Services contract.

ADS Chief Executive Kevin Craven warned that without an appropriate plan, the UK aerospace sector’s growth potential would remain “untapped.”

Airbus plans to provide an update on the technical assessment of a major space program when it publishes full-year results next month.

Lithuanian startup Airvolve has adopted horizontal-axis cyclorotor propulsion to develop a compact middle-mile logistics uncrewed air system.

Planet Labs says it has secured a $230 million contract to build Pelican high-resolution satellites for an unnamed customer and announced a data provision deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the Copernicus program.

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a series of payload integration tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida which keep it on track for a planned mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.

India launched the second in a new series of navigation satellites, NVS-02, using a Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle.

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The service has supported a steady growth in its launch cadence and does not see it slowing down in the near future.

The Bethesda, Maryland-based company reported a $1.3 billion reach-forward loss on a classified program within the Missiles & Fire Control (M&FC) business.

“This is not going to be a major restructuring of the Boeing Company,” Ortberg said Jan. 28 while discussing fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 financial results.

A date for a second launch attempt was not set as the scrub was called at 12:54 a.m. EST.

The supersonic flight of Boom's XB-1 demonstrator, the first independently developed faster-than-sound aircraft, was successful.

The company has not set a timeline for the operational rollout of deliveries.

Warsaw said it expects deliveries in 2029-35.

Denmark’s political parties have agreed to spend $2 billion on strengthening defense capabilities in the Arctic and North Atlantic region, including Greenland.

Test flights of the tiltwing aircraft from Zurich have included transitions from vertical to horizontal flight and back.

Though the order is entitled “The Iron Dome for America,” the details of the concept extend far beyond Israel’s Iron Dome system.

The Albatroz UAS is a 500-kg, fixed-wing, twin-boom UAS that the company hopes to embark on the ship for trials as soon as June.

The 2,000-kg (4,400-lb.) gross weight electric aircraft received its Chinese type certificate in March 2024.

ESA has signed a deal with Thales Alenia Space to build the EnVision spacecraft to explore Venus from its inner core to upper atmosphere, the company said.

Shifting geopolitical realities are driving European space leaders to push defense and security up the space agenda.

Airbus and Spanish shipbuilder Navantia have agreed to explore the navalization of the Sirtap UAS, potentially enabling it to operate from Juan Carlos I.