Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
Europe’s Sesar 3 public-private partnership for research into ATM has included urban air mobility among 48 projects receiving $373 million.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
Vast Space, a startup attempting to develop a space station with artificial gravity, has acquired Launcher.
Commercial Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Serbia is continuing negotiations with France’s Dassault Aviation about the purchase of Rafale fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The United Arab Emirates is understood to have gone through with a controversial deal to buy Chinese advanced jet trainers.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Brian Everstine
As the USAF looks to develop uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft to fly with future fighters, the service is also rethinking how it organizes these fleets.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Boeing, Saab and Northrop Grumman have responded to a NATO request for information for airborne early warning aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Navy is eyeing plans to integrate a rotary-wing uncrewed air system on all of its surface vessels.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
UAE defense companies are showing off systems that if fielded could move the country into the category of makers of large autonomous combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Korea Aerospace Industries has signed an agreement to create an advanced air vehicle demonstration center in Gyeongsangnam-do province.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Russia’s Roscosmos Space Corp. has rescheduled the launch of the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spaceship to the International Space Station to an earlier date.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Feb. 21 that his country would formally suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms control treaty.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
The future of access to space may lie with equatorial launch sites that could make launch windows a thing of the past.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Organizers of the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Kansai, have selected the partners with which they plan to showcase advanced air mobility in Japan.
Airports & Networks

By Tony Osborne
Satellite developers are pitting themselves against each other to provide a sovereign, resilient military satcom capability for Australia's JP9102 requirement.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Speaking in Singapore, Scottish Business Minister Ivan McKee shared global ambitions for the nation's commercial space sector.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been widely criticized for moving too slowly in spending the €100 billion committed to recapitalizing the Bundeswehr.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
President Biden promised further deliveries of lethal aid and equipment to Ukraine as he made a surprise trip to Kyiv on Feb. 20.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Marketed as an aircraft designed to conduct humanitarian operations, AVIC's 60-tonne AG600 is also expected to serve the People’s Liberation Army.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
North Korea has announced the successful execution of an unplanned firing drill that saw a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
The Russian Progress MS-21 resupply capsule completed a destructive re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean.
Space

By Ben Goldstein
While the list shares some of the top names in common with comparable rankings from SMG Consulting and Aviation Week, there are also some notable differences.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
Spirit AeroSystems celebrated the rollout of the 100th forward fuselage for the KC-46 aerial refueling tanker, the military version of the Boeing 767.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The planned sole-source contract will be a cost plus fixed fee delivery order, beginning with a 31-month-long Phase 1 of the spiral upgrade.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
U.S. forces have completely recovered the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down off the South Carolina coast on Feb. 4.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine, Irene Klotz
The U.S. Space Force lays out a new approach for national-security space launches, using a “dual-lane” method to increase competition.
Space