Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

DHL Express plans to demonstrate the use of delivery drones for port logistics in a joint initiative with Malaysian aviation services company Pen Aviation and local cargo operator Raya Airways.

Turkish Aerospace Industries’ Aksungur twin-engine, medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system has entered service with the Turkish navy, the first customer for the platform.

The first electric racing aircraft built for the new Air Race E series is being readied for flight.

Major events such as the Olympic Games that focus the world’s attention on one country are emerging as key early showcases for urban air mobility.

Europe’s Maritime Safety Agency has contracted for the use of a Tekever remotely piloted air system (RPAS) and its new capability to drop a life raft.

Scotland is hoping that its space industry can contribute more than £4 billion ($5.53 billion) to its economy by 2030.

Attempts to fully unfurl and latch a solar array on NASA’s recently launched Lucy asteroid probe will resume no earlier than the end of next week, NASA said on Oct. 19.

Korea Aerospace Industries is working to improve the low observable capability of its new KF-21 fighter, although the plan has yet to be approved by the Ministry of National Defense and defense procurement agency DAPA.

The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is putting its new Boeing CH-47F Chinooks through their paces, validating capabilities at the annual Exercise Wallaby in Australia.

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. has successfully tested what it is calling the world’s most powerful integral solid-rocket booster.

Rocket Lab will attempt a controlled ocean splashdown and recovery of the Electron small satellite launcher earmarked for flight next month, the company said on Oct. 19.

Boeing is nearing the end of a winding technical analysis of a valve problem that scotched plans for an uncrewed orbital flight test of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in August.

The European Space Agency and UK air navigation service provider NATS are exploring whether 5G cellular communications technology could help to provide a resilient positioning capability for uncrewed air systems.

Aerospace supplier Meggitt says it still expects its acquisition by Parker Hannifin to proceed, despite an intervention by the UK government over national security concerns.

The UK has laid out its plan to become a net-zero society with grand designs on how to reduce the carbon impact of aviation.

NASA has named an astronaut flight training hangar in honor of the late John Young, who launched on six space missions and served as commander of the Apollo 16 Moon landing and the first space shuttle mission.

The U.S. Defense Department has announced plans to apply modular open systems approach standards on an emerging class of directed energy weapon systems.

European engineering services company Akka Technologies has unveiled its concept for a zero-emission regional aircraft.

The U.S. Air Force plans to look into how much work it will take to convert Australia’s E-7A Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft into a U.S. Defense Department-compliant platform.

The U.S. military’s logistics infrastructure is vulnerable to both physical and cyber attacks and Capitol Hill needs to help the Pentagon defend its weak points, the U.S. Air Force’s top civilian said.

The propeller-driven trainer and light-attack aircraft is designed to replace South Korea's KT-1.

The U.S. Forestry Service has retired its Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopters used for the aerial supervision of firefighting operations.

Backed by Chinese electric car maker XPeng, startup HT Aero has reached agreement to raise more than $500 million to develop an integrated flying and driving vehicle.

Three industry teams have been selected to compete for the next signals intelligence sensor being developed for the U.S. Air Force’s high-altitude aircraft fleet.

GKN Aerospace has opened its new Global Technology Center (GTC), which will prepare the technologies to help the company build components for the next generation of fuel-efficient aircraft.