In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Oct. 26 2022

Credit: Embraer. Embraer has joined Bombardier in providing its vision of a business jet of the future, with sustainability as a central tenet of their designs.

Credit: Dovetail Electric Aircraft. South Korean advanced air mobility (AAM) startup MintAir plans to purchase up to 10 zero-emission aircraft from Australia’s Dovetail Electric Aircraft for proposed regional cargo services.

Credit: Quantum Space rendering. Startup Quantum Space is targeting October 2024 for the launch of the first in a series of spacecraft to provide space situational awareness (SAA), host customer payloads and perform other services in cislunar space.

Credit: NASA. The U.S. Defense Department on Oct. 26 completed the first of two planned sounding rocket launches to test new technologies at hypersonic speed from NASA’s space launch facility in Wallops, Virginia. 

Credit: USAF. When Boeing released its third-quarter 2022 financial results on Oct. 26 before regular trading began on the U.S. stock markets, financial analysts did not know how investors would take the news.

Credit: TFASA. A South Africa-based test pilot school at the center of a growing international controversy over the recruitment of former Western military pilots to train Chinese personnel has denied wrongdoing. 

Credit: Boeing. A chronic shortage of parts and labor drove Boeing executives on Oct. 26 to report $2.76 billion in new reach-forward losses in the third quarter across five fixed-price development programs in the Defense, Space and Security (BDS) division.

Credit: Lilium. Saudi Arabian flag carrier Saudia has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Lilium for the proposed development and operation of an electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) network.

Credit: HeroX. NASA and partner crowdsourcing platform HeroX are looking for help solving human spacecraft life support challenges: how to extract carbon particle buildup in a recycler that removes carbon dioxide from the breathing air, and how to maintain a breathable atmosphere overall.

Credit: Tengden. China’s Sichuan Tengdun Science and Technology Co. has performed first flight of the Twin-Tailed Scorpion D, which it claims as the world’s first large-scale four-engined uncrewed air system (UAS).

Credit: Roscosmos/NASA TV. Russia’s Progress 82 resupply mission is on course to dock with the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 27, following a successful launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.

Credit: Boeing. The New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) has selected Boeing to carry out maintenance work on the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) new fleet of Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.