Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Robert Wall
Hensoldt CEO Oliver Dörre discusses the German company’s ambitions from producing more air defense radars to expanding airborne special mission activities.
Supply Chain

By Robert Wall
The British government says it will finalize its Defense Investment Plan (DIP) once due last year before the NATO summit gathering in Ankara on July 7.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit plans to spend up to $200 million within the next year to ready “mature” quantum sensors and timing devices for fielding with U.S. military services.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin has delivered six F-35Bs to the U.S. Marine Corps without radars due to ongoing delays with a powerful new upgrade.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Aviation Week Staff
LIG ties up with RHEINMETALL... QUANTUM COMPUTING acquires NHANCED SEMICONDUCTORS... LOCKHEED gets Conventional Prompt Strike award...
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OHB Set For $580M Capital Raise
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By Garrett Reim
Sophia Space plans to test its orbital data center technology aboard Apex’s Nova satellite bus in 2027.
Commercial Space

By Thierry Dubois
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.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

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

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

By Robert Wall
European startup Stark Defense says it has raised €500 million ($569 million) in extra capital to help drive expansion.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

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

By Chen Chuanren
New Zealand's 2025 Defense Capability Plan offered perhaps the clearest indication yet that Wellington recognizes the need for greater combat capability.
Budget, Policy & Operations

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

Aviation Week Staff
USAF NUCLEAR WEAPONS CENTER gets new executive director... HII receives aircraft elevator maintenance/repair award... BOEiNG gets Poseidon retrofit contract...
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By Mark Carreau
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.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
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.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
Norwood Space has unveiled a new ground-based parabolic antenna, named Prism, that is designed to handle high data rates.
Commercial Space

By Vivienne Machi
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.
Operations & Safety

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

By Graham Warwick
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.
Advanced Air Mobility

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

By Robert Wall
Leonardo and Baykar said they flew Leonardo’s M-346 aircraft closely networked with the Turkish drone maker’s Kizilelma collaborative combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Mark Carreau
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.
Space Exploration