Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Korea Aerospace Industries’ KF-21 has conducted its first air-to-air refueling test, joining up with an A330 MRTT.

MDA Space says the Aurora communications satellite product line would support multiple radio frequencies and “dynamic in-orbit reconfiguration.”

U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. (ret.) Thomas Stafford, who commanded NASA’s May 1969 Apollo 10 mission to the Moon and led the Apollo crew that participated in a historic linkup with Soviet cosmonauts, has died.

The high discharge rates required during takeoff by electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft could dramatically reduce battery cycle life.

EHang reported improved sales and deliveries alongside its financial results for the fourth quarter.

As a result of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, U.S. repair stations must obtain UK CAA Part 145 maintenance organization approval.

The launch will be part of Ariane 6’s development and remain under the ESA’s responsibility.

European Union and national government investments in Norway’s missile and ammunition industries are being focused on building increased production capacity.

The U.S. Air Force is surveying industry for multiple categories of propulsion to power future tankers.

Tournear says while the test did successfully transmit data, transmissions were only successful about half of the time.

Spanish companies will use a microsatellite built by Kongsberg NanoAvionics to test their planned space-based air traffic management (ATM) system.

NASA’s Johnson Space Center is positioned to receive the largest share of NASA’s $25.384 billion funding request for 2025.

A new kind of hypersonic vehicle could infiltrate an enemy’s most defended area, strike a target and then return to base to fight another day.

The announcement means Lockheed Martin or Northrop Grumman will be selected two years early for the next intercontinental ballistic missile-class interceptor.

European industry could fly a rotorcraft technology demonstrator for a future military helicopter in the next phase of a European Union (EU)-funded research activity.

Charging for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis could increase electrical demand at vertiport sites by six-seven times.

The Varied AAM Noise and Geographic Area Response Difference (Vangard) test will use NASA’s recently developed Remote Psychoacoustic Test Platform.

To explore consumer willingness to participate in AAM by flying on eVTOL aircraft, an online survey of 975 individuals in the U.S. was conducted.

The Pentagon appears to have reached peak spending and will have to determine how to meet its strategic objectives through redistribution and reprioritization

While the U.S. remains the world’s paramount military power, its defense industrial base has significant shortcomings compared to China’s.

Spirit AeroSystems will build and test a large, experimental wing to support high-speed aircraft applications under a new DARPA program.

NASA must establish a more integrated, top-down management approach to its supercomputing assets, an agency IG report says.

A company-led test at Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah in September demonstrated the armed, propeller-driven Altius-700M striking a tracked armored vehicle.

China’s usually reliable Long March fleet suffered a launch hiccup when a Long March 2C failed to put two lunar navigation test satellites into orbit.

France has become the world’s second-largest arms exporter after sales by Russia plummeted in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.