Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

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.

A longevity, thrust and fuel efficiency upgrade for the Lockheed Martin F-35 has passed a preliminary design review (PDR) milestone, Pratt & Whitney says.

As part of the review, the Pentagon rescinded the Sentinel program’s Milestone B approval from 2020.

The magnetic field of Jupiter, the Solar System’s largest planet, is 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s.

Beta Technologies says it has completed two more evaluation deployments for the U.S. Air Force with its prototype Alia electric aircraft.

Archer Aviation and Southwest Airlines have partnered to evaluate the integration of Midnight air taxis into the carrier’s operations across California.

The newly expanded consortium will also explore opportunities for the Dream Chaser in Japan and across the Asian continent.

The U.S. Marine Corps has chosen Leonardo’s AW139 medium helicopter to demonstrate autonomous logistics resupply.

The NTSB is leading the investigation of the crash of an amphibious air tanker that killed a veteran agricultural aviation pilot and native of Brazil.

UK Royal Air Force Air Marshal Paul Godfrey most recently served as the first commander of UK Space Command.

Tehran’s proxies from the north and south launched 200 or so projectiles.

Tokyo says construction of the destroyer-sized ASEV has been expedited to begin in fiscal 2024.

Maj. Robert Jeł died when the aircraft failed to pull out of an aerobatic maneuver during a rehearsal ahead of the planned Naval Aviation Day on July 13.

Russia plans to cancel the development of its future nuclear-powered Zevs (Zeus) space tug due to financial hurdles and a lack of suitable missions.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket broke apart in the final stage of flight, leaving some Starlink satellites in lower-than-intended orbits and sidelining the vehicle.

Northrop Grumman’s 20th Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS departed with more than 7,300 lb. of trash for a destructive reentry into the atmosphere.

Aerospace and defense company Nammo plans to boost rocket-motor production capacity under a deal with the Norwegian government.

The study was conducted by Lufthansa Innovation Hub alongside Roland Berger, V2AIR and Unisphere.

Lt. Gen. Michael Schmidt, the F-35 program executive officer, on July 11 approved the so-called “truncation plan.”

France, Germany, Italy and Poland signed a memorandum of understanding at the NATO Summit to partner on the European Long Range Strike Approach (ELSA).