Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

NASA’s plan to build a second mobile launcher for its upgraded Space Launch System (SLS) rocket will cost the agency $1.8 billion.

The agency wants materials that are also resistant to the corrosive LEO environment.

The company also says it has measures underway to prevent a recurrence.

Details of the Saab studies have emerged from an event held by the Folk och Försvar–Swedish for People and Defense–association.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's announcement offers the first confirmation that a small batch of F-16s delivered to Ukraine in July are flying combat missions.

The service also highlighted the RTAF’s autonomy in employing the Swedish fighter without the country of origin’s permission.

The new domestically developed weapon is called Palyanytsia, the name of a popular Ukrainian loaf of bread,.

A draft budget suggests the Indonesian Defense Ministry is set to benefit from the stance of president-elect Prabowo Subianto who took office earlier this year.

The new configuration increases first-stage peak thrust levels by more than half compared to Trident C4 version, but the thrust upgrade is a secondary goal.

Dufour Aerospace has conducted the first hover flight of the production-ready prototype for its Aero2 tiltwing hybrid eVTOL UAS.

Eanan Al Samma's Rikaz is a multicopter electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicle with four three-blade propellers mounted on arms.

Uruguay has become the latest South American country to sign up to operate the Embraer A-29 Super Tucano light-attack aircraft.

SpaceX has reset the launch of the privately funded Polaris Dawn mission for Aug. 28 to troubleshoot a helium leak in a quick-disconnect umbilical on the ground side of the Falcon 9 launch system.

Turkish Aerospace Industries has officially opened an office in Bandung, Indonesia.

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

News in brief.

EMBRAER sells to Uruguayan Air Force... RAYTHEON gets CASTLE award... TELEDYNE BROWN building new ballistic missile targets...

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander, slated to lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9, will carry 10 scientific instruments and tech demonstrations to the Moon.

Founded in 1978, California-based Aero Turbine has a customer portfolio that includes the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy.

The operation is a preview of where Air Mobility Command (AMC) is trying to go as part of a broad situational awareness push.

U.S. Space Command's Gen. Stephen Whiting supports plans by the U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command to increase its space personnel and space control.

The electronic warfare mission support tasks for the Ukrainian F-16s donated by the Netherlands and Denmark are being “onboarded” as a new FMS case.

While the other eight engines ignited as planned, the fire in the ninth engine was “really difficult to contain.”

Orbitworks will be the first company in the UAE to manufacture commercial low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations.

The turboprop Grand Caravan aircraft have a range of about 1,150 mi. with a payload capacity of up to 1,200 lb.