Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket has reached its Cape Canaveral SFS launchpad in preparation for a static hot-fire ahead of the company's second orbital launch.

The U.S. Air Force plans to phase out older F-35s instead of upgrading them to the Block 4 standard.

CEO: Airbus is committed to supporting Germany and Spain on the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program even if France drops out.

Key Republican lawmakers are criticizing a Pentagon move to substantially reduce the American troop presence in Eastern Europe.

The UK Space Agency is building out its satellite tracking capabilities.

After more than a decade without a clean-sheet aircraft, many observers believe the legacy aerospace industry has entered a period of stagnation.

Boeing says it is keeping pace on key defense programs amid an ongoing strike, but machinists counter that there are ongoing impacts to key fighter programs.

DARPA has kicked off an effort to detect and track faint objects hundreds of thousands of miles away in cislunar space.

Australia-based Hypersonix raised A$46 million ($30million) in a Series A round for various activities.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s HII Transfer Vehicle-X (HTV X-1) successfully rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 29.

Leonardo DRS reported a jump in sales as CEO Bill Lynn announced he would exit the business at year-end.

Spanish ministers have approved funding for the acquisition of a fleet of Turkish Aerospace Industries Hurjet trainers and an associated training system.

The Defense Ministry is looking to set up a single unit to manage its satellites, creating an opportunity for closer cooperation between ISR and satcoms programs.

China has conducted the first flight of a new advanced jet trainer, with photos circulating online showing the twin-engine aircraft airborne and on the ground.

Cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky marched through a seven-hour, multitask spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 28.

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Before year’s end, a startup plans to launch inside a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage a manufacturing pod that would briefly experience the vacuum of space.

Should Textron Aviation Defense win the Navy’s Undergraduate Jet Training System program, the company will assemble the Beechcraft M-346N in Kansas.

A UK firm is adapting tech developed for smartphones and driverless automobiles to provide the navigational accuracy for a new generation of low-cost munitions.

U.S. startup Merlin has reached a milestone in the development of its Merlin Pilot autonomous flight system.

The U.S. Army has picked AEVEX’s Atlas to advance as its initial Launched Effects-Short Range (LE-SR) system following a series of demonstrations this year.

Flown by NASA X-59 lead pilot Nils Larson, the much-anticipated first flight of the Lockheed Martin-built aircraft began at 8:14 a.m. PDT Oct. 28.

South Korea has launched the second phase of its advanced air mobility demonstration project with urban demonstration flights in the city of Incheon, bordering the Korean capital Seoul.

Germany’s MD Aircraft has secured Piper Deutschland as a strategic partner and investor in the development and production of the MDA1 eViator.

European Space Agency opens first Asian office.