Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Steve Trimble
Embraer says a contract with a new customer for the C-390 Millennium could be signed by the end of March.
Singapore Airshow

By Tony Osborne
Speaking ahead of Singapore Airshow, a Bell executive says India is the most promising market for the company's helicopters in the Asia-Pacific region.
Singapore Airshow

By Chen Chuanren
Longbow operated by the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) will undergo a Life Extension Program that will see the fleet operate beyond 2030.
Singapore Airshow

By Chen Chuanren
As the budget was announced, the head of the Republic of Singapore Air Force shared his priorities ahead of Singapore Airshow 2024.
Singapore Airshow

By Steve Trimble
AVIC has brought a Changhe Z-10ME to the Singapore Airshow this year, marking the attack helicopter’s first trip to a foreign event.
Singapore Airshow

By Ben Goldstein
With a vast population, fast-growing middle class and stifling urban congestion, India looks ripe to be a major early launch market for UAM services.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Alaka’i Technologies is flight testing two hydrogen fuel cell-powered electric vertical-take-off-and-landing vehicles on a near-daily basis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
The agreement is intended to facilitate a growing space economy by creating a “collaborative development environment,” NASA says.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has opened applications for a second set of four volunteers motivated to spend a year in confinement in a simulated, 3D-printed Mars mission habitat.
Space

By Guy Norris
The global community should avoid doing commercial space business with China because it will support further growth of China's military space operations.
Space

Aviation Week Network Staff
Russia’s Siberian Research Institute for Aviation has performed the first test flight of Partizan, its ultra STOL transport aircraft demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
The Italian government says the project threatens the country’s defense and national security, as Microtecnica is a supplier of the Eurofighter Typhoon fighter.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Washington has recently determined how Russia will attempt to field a new ASAT capability that analysts have been secretly tracking for several years.
Space

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By Brandon Patrick
France’s military modernization is ambitious, expansive and well underway, according to data from Aviation Week Network’s Fleet Discovery Military tool.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Ben Goldstein
U.S. startup Surf Air Mobility has committed to take up to 90 hybrid electric short-takeoff-and-landing aircraft from Electra.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Varda Space Industries’ reentry capsule has received permission from the FAA to leave orbit, pass through the atmosphere and land back on terra firma.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
Airbus is progressing with studies and tests on two different hydrogen propulsion systems—a modified turbofan and an electric motor associated to a fuel cell.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
NASA has learned a number of lessons that have helped shape an evolving Moon-to-Mars Architecture strategy that underpins the agency’s Artemis program.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Lockheed Martin and Rhea have been awarded contracts to develop software to control the UK’s future constellation of ISR satellites.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
After a revised assessment of its space portfolio, Airbus Defense and Space has taken a €600 million ($642 million) charge on unspecified programs.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Greece and Turkey have joined the growing number of NATO alliance and non-alliance nations to sign up to the German-led European Sky Shield Initiative.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Singapore’s ST Engineering has unveiled its new Knight Earth observation satellite.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
U.S. startup Vast has picked Singapore space connectivity firm AddValue to provide Inter-satellite Data Relay System connectivity for its Haven-1 space station.
Space