Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

A grim future lies ahead for Ukraine and NATO members in the face of Russia’s ongoing invasion, Ukrainian and British analysts agree.

The top modernization priority is adding to the fleet of A-29 Super Tucano armed turboprops, Lebanese Air Force Commander Brig. Gen. Michael Saifi says.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk plans to move the company’s headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.

Moon mining startup Interlune says it has received a $348,000 grant from NASA’s TechFlights program to test its lunar regolith beneficiation equipment.

A new data translation system meant to provide U.S. military space operators with a clearer picture of the heavens has entered operational trials.

The 212-ft. core stage will be used for the agency’s Artemis II mission.

Clayton Turner, the director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, was named the STMD acting administrator.

The mission is planned to launch to the lunar south pole in late 2024.

The facility in Chelveston, England, is planned to be operational by 2025.

Australian and Canadian companies have emerged as winners in the UK’s £1 billion ($1.3 billion) effort to develop a hypersonic weapon.

Airline pilots have reported a worsening of the GPS spoofing problem, as a new “hotspot” has appeared around the southern Russian port city of Novorossiysk.

KBR’s board unanimously OK’d the purchase, but it is subject to certain regulatory approvals prior to closing.

Lockheed Martin has announced a series of offset items for Thailand should it choose the F-16 Blk. 70/72 package.

Senate authorizers want to take almost all of the remaining funding away from the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request for its next-generation F/A-XX fighter.

The French Air and Space Force is forming a new squadron with the Rafale now that manufacturer Dassault has resumed deliveries of the fighter to France.

Italy's acquisition of 24 new Eurofighters, referred to as F-2000s, enables the air force to replace its Tranche 1 Eurofighters.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that the UK's new strategic defense review will bolster what he called “our hollowed-out armed forces.”

German defense startup Donaustahl says it will supply Ukraine with an unspecified number of Maus loitering munitions.

ESA has given the provisional go-ahead for a mission to fly by the Apophis asteroid in 2029 as part of planetary defense, with NASA also sending Osiris-Apex.

Pivotal says it has delayed customer deliveries of its Helix personal electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to 2025.

Defense tech startups raised $9.1 billion in the first half of 2024 compared to $34.9 billion for all of 2023 and $35.8 billion in 2022, a new report says.

The SASC says it wants a progress report on the Pentagon’s efforts to field new capabilities to monitor air or ground targets in real time from space.

Chinese privately funded launch company iSpace has suffered its fourth failure in seven launch attempts.

Acquisition and budget documents point to the quiet emergence of a third capability: signals intelligence.

The Taiwanese ministry of national defense (MND) says flight control software issues were the primary cause of delays.