Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Guy Norris
An additional limited production “R66 Riviera” will also be offered with advanced Garmin avionics and a three-axis autopilot.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
All four of Moscow’s airports suspended operations for several hours on the morning of March 11 after a large retaliatory drone strike from Ukraine.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters is preparing to spin-up local assembly of rotorcraft in Algeria after securing orders from the country’s military.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
Former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt will take over leadership of rocket developer Relativity Space, the company confirms.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Cloudy weather prompted a scrub late March 10 of the launch of NASA's rideshare SPHEREx and PUNCH space science missions onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB.
Operations & Safety

By Chen Chuanren
In a $91.2 million package, Australia seeks 54 GMLRS-AW rounds, along with telemetry kits, engineering services, technical assistance, and program support.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Kymeta of Redmond, Washington, makes multiple types of electronically steered array flat panel antennas.
Satellites

By Vivienne Machi
The agency has tapped 13 vendors to compete for orders worth a total of around $490 million over the next five years under the Luno initiative.
Satellites

By Steve Trimble
The services in the proposed Foreign Military Sale (FMS) also would include meeting coordination in the U.S. and Japan.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
The agency is increasingly adopting artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that are supporting such dramatic improvements in data collection rates.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
The latest ranking from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) shows the Ukraine war looms large over how the arms market has evolved.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Some 500 hr. of flying will take place over six months as part of the Guyana trials.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The March 7 solicitation is among the U.S. Air Force’s corrective actions after Viasat filed a bid protest against two contract awards.
Satellites

By Brian Everstine
The company laid out a new proposal for CCA to Aviation Week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (UX)-24 loaded the first SkyTower II Airborne Network Extension pod on a MQ-9A Block 5-25 aircraft on Feb. 25.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The airframer will respond to an upcoming request for proposals (RFP) from industry–expected as early as April.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Ukraine budgeted UAH 102 billion ($2.47 billion) in 2025 for its Defense Procurement Agency to buy the drones.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Dubbed HeliStorm, the lightweight, high-speed electric engine family will cover the 6,000-7,000 rpm range.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
London-based Macquarie Rotorcraft Ltd is to be taken over by the joint venture of Sumitomo Mitsui Finance & Leasing (SMFL) and LCI Helicopters (LCI).
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Network Staff
As a military transport, the An-26 first flew in 1969; in the late 1990s, some of the almost 1,400 transports were converted to the commercial An-26-100 variant
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Royal Thai Air Force is looking for a tanker platform to refuel Lockheed Martin F-16s and Saab Gripens.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Robert Wall
Thales Alenia Space secured another large GEO satellite contract, showing there is still life in a spacecraft market that has become a pain point for Europe.
Satellites

By Craig Caffrey
With all eyes on the spat between the new administration in Washington and its allies in Europe, China quietly released details of its budget plans for 2025.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Robert Wall
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner may not return to flight this year as the OEM and NASA work to address the issues exposed in last year's troubled crew flight test.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Weighing 115 lb. with a 10.3-ft. wingspan, the all-composite RBW is a flying wing aircraft in a tailsitter configuration that flies autonomously.
Advanced Air Mobility