Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Kim Minseok
The South Korean military has publicly unveiled the Hyunmoo-5 ballistic missile, which it claims is the world’s largest ballistic missile armed with a conventional warhead.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
ESA is still optimistic its Hera mission to survey the Dimorphos asteroid will launch Oct. 7 despite a technical glitch with a SpaceX Falcon 9 during a recent flight.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
The Horus A is intended for government applications such as surveillance, communications relay, backing up GPS and even space domain awareness.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
The Starliner astronauts have completed configuration of the SpaceX Crew-9 Dragon spacecraft now docked to the International Space Station.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Although short of the seven-day flight hoped for, Skydweller says it demonstrated feasibility of staying airborne for months on solar power and batteries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The lack of major obvious damage again showed that Israeli and U.S. missile defenses intercepted the most dangerous incoming missiles from Iran.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Under the agreements around basing at the Payerne air base near Geneva, takeoffs and landings by the stealthy fighter will be limited to 4,200 a year.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
The funding will be provided by the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub through the CHIPS and Science Act.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Garrett Reim
As part of the first phase of its rollout, the Traffic Coordination System for Space is sending alerts to nine satellite operators.
Operations & Safety

By Steve Trimble
Two U.S. Air Force F-16 Block 50s finished the month with 45 flight hours with the ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite (IVEWS) aboard.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
To achieve power-on, Lilium applied 900-volt external power to the aircraft, where it was converted to lower voltage to supply electrical and avionics systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Under a pilot partnership between Wing and Serve Robotics, packages will be picked up by a ground robot, then delivered by drone to customers up to 6 mi. away.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Vivienne Machi
The 5650B is an upgraded version of Comtech’s current wideband global satcom-certified modem.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
Astrobotic is reporting a successful round of Jet Propulsion Laboratory-managed Deep Space Network (DSN) communications testing with the Griffin lunar lander.
Space Exploration

BOEING gets SDB Increment One award... PAG completes acquisitions of ICON and TAG AERO... IMPULSE SPACE closes Series B round...
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By Robert Wall
NATO's new Secretary General Mark Rutte identified higher defense production across alliance members as one of his top priorities as he formally took on the role.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
The U.S. Army says it has built a transmission network using small high-altitude balloons to support soldiers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The defense tech startup first announced it was expanding its hardware and software capabilities to support the space domain in a Sept. 13 release.
Satellites

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
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News in brief.
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RAYTHEON gets AIM-9X lot 24 award... AGEAGLE announces public offering... MERCURY SYSTEMS supports KC-46 RVS 2.0 upgrade...
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By Angus Batey
Advanced air mobility (AAM) could have a transformational impact on the lives of disabled people if accessibility is “baked in.”
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
Cert-2, slated to launch between 6-9 a.m. EDT Oct. 4, follows Vulcan’s Jan. 8 inaugural Cert-1 flight.
Operations & Safety

By Vivienne Machi
The company recently used the antenna system to support the checkout phase of satellites it built for the Space Development Agency (SDA).
Satellites

By Guy Norris
Is NASA preparing to get more serious about hydrogen? The answer is: maybe.
Aircraft & Propulsion