Defense and Space

Poland's Armaments Agency signed contracts for the delivery of 800 Lockheed Martin AGM-114R2 Hellfire missiles, to equip the country's new AW149 helicopters.

North Korean state media was unusually quick to announce the failed launch of the spy satellite on the morning of May 31.

The four-person crew of Axiom Space’s second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico on May 30.

NASA’s eVTOL crash test lessons; DLR’s impact test site; Formula One informs batteries; Eve tests UAM prototypes.

Israel's replacement for the endo-atmospheric Arrow-2 interceptor is being designed with a lower cost target, with a goal of supporting high volume production.

The U.S. Air Force hailed the test flights as a “groundbreaking achievement," but magnetic navigation technology still faces technical limitations.

Russia’s Roscosmos has added radar observation capabilities to its Earth-monitoring constellation with a launch of the Kondor-FKA satellite.

Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission (AX-2) to the International Space Station departed the orbital laboratory as planned on May 30.

NASA is once more reaching out to the private sector for assistance with the Artemis program, this time to provide unpressurized lunar terrain vehicles.

China's Shenzhou-16 mission has reportedly docked successfully at the Tiangong space station with a crew of three astronauts, including one civilian researcher.

Boeing and ST Engineering have agreed to explore setting up a P-8 Poseidon services and sustainment center in Singapore to support the maritime patrol aircraft.

Targeted growth, strategic mergers and retaining talent can help companies rebound from the unavoidable difficulties of recent years.

Ispace believes that its Series 1 lunar lander crashed into the Moon because of an error in the spacecraft’s altitude measurement software.

The final two members of a novel cubesat quartet were launched into orbit to track developing storms on a near-hourly basis.

NASA faces mounting urgency to control the cost of its Space Launch System (SLS) rocket development and production, an agency inspector general’s audit says.

Raytheon will demonstrate an improved version of the tube-launched, swarming Coyote Block 3 for the Office of Naval Research.

Germany, France, the Netherlands and Czech Republic are discussing the future of strategic airlift and eyeing solutions for heavy and outsized cargo aircraft.

Kongsberg Defense & Aerospace AS is working with the Royal Malaysian Navy to utilize the Naval Strike Missile across its fleet.

“Four squadrons of F-16s (48 aircraft) are exactly what we need to liberate our country from the aggressor,” Ukraine's defense ministry tweeted May 26

The cislunar transporter would make propellant runs from LEO to lunar orbit.

Like a shooting star, Virgin Orbit’s quick flare-up and steady diminution punctuates new space’s financial struggles.

The proving ground will use open-architecture testbeds to enable industry to flight-test autonomy technologies.

If confirmed, Brown would be the first Air Force chairman since 2005, replacing retiring U.S. Army Gen. Mark Milley in the role.

Fleet Space Technologies has raised an about $33 million round of Series C funding to further finance its satellite connected geological survey business.

Denmark and the Netherlands will lead a group effort to train Ukrainian pilots on Lockheed Martin F-16s following a green light from the U.S.