Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

LCC Norwegian has won a $97 million four-year contract to provide around 250,000 flights annually for the defense sector in Norway and the Nordic region.

Warsaw expects delivery of all four Polish Navy Leonardo AW101s—purchased in a deal worth €380 million ($427 million)—by the end of this year.

The linkup between Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Australia’s Hypersonix Launch Systems is the latest in Hypersonix’s growth into the U.S. market.

Current plans call for the first Romanian F-35s to be delivered by Lockheed Martin in 2030 to replace the country’s F-16 fleet.

New Zealand's temporary flight ban on the NH90s was spurred by the devastating July 28 crash of its Australian counterpart.

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Skyports Drone Services has announced the successful completion of a four-week drone delivery trial.

The offerings are built around a new family of vehicles known as Elytra (a term for the wings of a firefly).

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other key agency leaders are acknowledging challenges in meeting the December 2025 schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing.

The spacecraft originally were to fly on separate missions on startup ABL Space Systems’ RS1.

Legislators hope that completing the final transfer of the aircraft will end an almost decade-long saga.

Palantir Technologies’ sales rose 13% annually to $533 million in the second quarter with government clients accounting for 57% of total revenue.

The service in March announced the creation of a new cross-functional team (CFT) in Army Futures Command.

The Conventional Prompt Strike missile is one of several weapon systems pursuing alternatives to an increasingly threatened GPS-based approach to navigation.

The Pentagon needs a new way to coordinate and advocate for “missile defeat,” the U.S. Army’s top missile defense official says.

Benchmark Space Systems, a propulsion systems manufacturer, has raised a $33 million Series B round.

Textron Aviation has won type certification from the National Civil Aviation Authority of Brazil (ANAC) for its Cessna 408 SkyCourier utility turboprop.

The U.S. Army plans to increase its Patriot missile defense units even as it faces intense recruiting issues sparked by a congressional push to grow its force.

Russia has started to modernize its Glonass space-based navigation system with a new generation of satellites.

Startup Transcend Air has redesigned its turbine-powered tiltwing VTOL aircraft and is working to raise the funds required to build a proof-of-concept vehicle.

Northrop Grumman is accelerating its proposal and says it could deliver its Next Generation Interceptor prototype as early as 2026.

Lockheed Martin has opened a 20,000-ft.2 small satellite assembly facility at its Waterton campus in Littleton, Colorado.

Amazon plans to take advantage of an earlier opportunity to fly a pair of test satellites for its Kuiper broadband constellation.

Redesigning and testing part of the parachute system on the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft will delay a long-awaited crew flight test (CFT) until March 2024 at the earliest.

Pale Blue has won a contract to provide its Resitojet water-vapor based propulsion system for a pair of 6U cubesats.