Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Lockheed Martin has delivered six F-35Bs to the U.S. Marine Corps without radars due to ongoing delays with a powerful new upgrade.

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Sophia Space plans to test its orbital data center technology aboard Apex’s Nova satellite bus in 2027.

Polymer material specialist Clayens took over Vision Systems in May and now intends to ramp up production and strengthen the acquired company’s product range.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket dispatched a new spacecraft designed to return science samples and items manufactured in microgravity back to Earth.

Houston-based Axiom Space has changed its legal domicile from Delaware to Texas to align its legal home with its operational headquarters.

European startup Stark Defense says it has raised €500 million ($569 million) in extra capital to help drive expansion.

Aura Aero acquires VoltAero’s assets, leveraging hybrid-electric expertise to advance its ERA 19-seater and expand its operational base in Rochefort.

New Zealand's 2025 Defense Capability Plan offered perhaps the clearest indication yet that Wellington recognizes the need for greater combat capability.

France is stepping up its efforts to get quadcopter drones into user hands with a 5,000-vehicle order with local startup Harmattan AI.

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A NASA safety panel praised the International Space Station (ISS) program on June 22 for the precautionary steps it recently took while Russian cosmonauts looked into the latest in a series of worrisome air leaks.

A flagship NASA observatory designed to answer questions about dark energy, dark matter, exoplanets and other astrophysical phenomena arrived at the Kennedy Space Center on June 21.

Northwood Space has unveiled a new ground-based parabolic antenna, named Prism, that is designed to handle high data rates.

The call came before sunrise in Mahia, New Zealand. Less than 17 hr. later, Rocket Lab launched a company-built satellite to space with its Electron rocket.

Commercial space tracker LeoLabs says that China’s reusable spaceplane has released a new object on orbit.

A U.S. startup has secured funding to begin scaling up a battery chemistry that promises to enable a three-four times improvement in drone performance.

Startical plans a satellite constellation to extend VHF communications, improve safety and enable better flightpaths while reducing costs.

Leonardo and Baykar said they flew Leonardo’s M-346 aircraft closely networked with the Turkish drone maker’s Kizilelma collaborative combat aircraft.

Strathclyde demonstrates a 100-kW superconducting motor and works with Airbus to develop a megawatt-level prototype for future aircraft propulsion.

NASA has picked a concept for further development of a twin-sat mission to research how space weather and the Earth’s atmosphere affect the space environment.

When Airbus embarked on the A400M program, one of its selling points was that it could serve as a strategic transport and a tactical aircraft.

Australia and the UK are studying the integration of a European air-to-air missile on the Boeing MQ-28A Ghost Bat collaborative combat aircraft (CCA).

Canada has formally signed an agreement to acquire Australia's over-the-horizon radar technology, marking Australia's largest-ever defense export program.