Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket broke apart in the final stage of flight, leaving some Starlink satellites in lower-than-intended orbits and sidelining the vehicle.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Northrop Grumman’s 20th Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS departed with more than 7,300 lb. of trash for a destructive reentry into the atmosphere.
Space

By Robert Wall
Aerospace and defense company Nammo plans to boost rocket-motor production capacity under a deal with the Norwegian government.
Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
The study was conducted by Lufthansa Innovation Hub alongside Roland Berger, V2AIR and Unisphere.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Lt. Gen. Michael Schmidt, the F-35 program executive officer, on July 11 approved the so-called “truncation plan.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
France, Germany, Italy and Poland signed a memorandum of understanding at the NATO Summit to partner on the European Long Range Strike Approach (ELSA).
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Landing gear specialist Héroux-Devtek of Quebec, Canada, has agreed to be acquired and taken private by a U.S. private equity firm for about $1.35 billion.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The tankers add to the four boom-equipped KC-135Rs that Metrea acquired from the Republic of Singapore Air Force in 2021.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Mark Carreau
The OK signals challenges for NASA to achieve ambitious goals .
Space

By Brian Everstine
AFSOC has been undertaking the plan, called the Adaptive Airborne Enterprise, to have one airman control multiple UAS.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
New Zealand’s Dawn Aerospace has been certified to fly its Mk. 2 Aurora reusable suborbital spaceplane demonstrator at unlimited speed up to 80,000 ft.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is targeting development of ERAM—a new class of air-launched precision munition for Ukraine.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Selected to meet the initial Alliance Future Surveillance and Control (iAFSC) requirement, the Boeing E-7 will replace NATO's aging E-3 Sentry fleet by 2035.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Chen Chuanren
South Korea has contracted Hanwha Aerospace to mass produce a high-powered directed-energy weapon, which the country hopes to operationalize by year's end.
Missile Defense & Weapons

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By Ben Goldstein
Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Ottobrun near Munich, ERC Systems is seeking to launch services later this decade.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The milestone came technically a year late due to production problems.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The MOU, signed July 9, is a new milestone for the Alliance Persistent Surveillance from Space initiative.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Germany, Italy and the Netherlands are buying 940 Stinger Block 1 missiles from Raytheon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
The mission, designated Artemis IV, is to be the first aboard the more powerful SLS Block 1 rocket.
Space

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
Starliner was launched June 5 on an anticipated nine-day flight test.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Gen. Kenneth Wilsbach added to the uncertainty facing the F-22 replacement, saying there are no plans to retire the fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Swedish defense materiel agency FMV announced July 10 that it has signed a contract to buy 12 additional UH-60Ms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The deployments will include “developmental hypersonic weapons.”
Missile Defense & Weapons