Defense and Space

NASA has deviated from its planned “hands off” strategy” with its Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative, the audit said.

France’s land forces industries association has called for a tech and industrial road map for the development of loitering munitions for the French Army.

Diehl's Feanix—Future Effector–Adaptable, Networked, Intelligent, eXpendable—is an under-300-kg (660-lb.)-class, turbojet-powered, clean-sheet air system.

After Proteus opened the door to Scaled’s high-altitude testing, Encore forms the focus for a next-gen follow-on project.

LUFTHANSA TECHNIK delivered third/final A350-900 (416) to GERMANY following installation of government cabin.

Airbus has secured its largest order for its H225 helicopter twin-engine heavy helicopter since 2008.

Since its founding in 2019, Space Pioneer has raised more than $552.1 million over 15 financing rounds.

Companies that supply engines, avionics, missiles and other systems find a market as nations seek to develop their own aircraft

The Missile Defense Agency will within a week conduct its first test of its new space-based hypersonic missile tracking system.

The Missile Defense Agency will soon deliver new radars to Guam ahead of planned large-scale tests of its new ballistic missile defense architecture.

Boeing on June 6 delivered the first operational F-15EX Eagle II to the U.S. Air National Guard.

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner with two NASA astronauts managed a delayed docking to the International Space Station on June 6.

The newly announced plan is part of a wider effort to expand production and repair capacity for the F-35’s acrylic transparencies.

Slingshot Aerospace has developed an artificial intelligence program to find adversary spacecraft hiding among satellite constellations.

Isar Aerospace was founded in 2018 as a spinoff of Technical University Munich.

The appeal comes on the heels of Washington approving two foreign military sales to Taiwan for F-16 spares and support in a deal totaling $300 million.

Airbus is to adapt a German Air Force Eurofighter combat aircraft into a testbed for manned-unmanned teaming technologies.

With 32 of its 33 Raptor engines firing, the Super Heavy booster lifted off from SpaceX’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, spaceport at after a trouble-free countdown.

The air-launched ballistic missile compliments the surface- and ground-launched versions of the 430-km. range, 3,500-lb. LORA.

Germany’s Diehl Defense has lifted the veil on its development of an even longer-range version of its IRIS-T-based ground-based air defense system.

Rolls-Royce Germany has teamed up with ITP Aero to offer a new engine family for collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) that will lean on the proven Advance2 core.

Rome has given the greenlight to Safran's takeover of Microtecnica from RTX after concerns over the supply of components to defense programs were addressed.

The Republic of Korea Air Force retired its F-4 Phantom fleet on June 5 after 55 years of service.

After being shut out of a patrol fleet acquisition, Ottawa’s aerospace industry is gearing up to compete for a new airborne early warning contract.

Scaled Composites, which has built and flown a new aircraft roughly every year since forming in 1982, is still expanding in its 17th year with Northrop Grumman.