Defense and Space

The U.S. Air Force plans to award a contract for a fighter aircraft to replace the F-22 Raptor in 2024.

Virgin Orbit will close after its assets were bought by four bankruptcy bidders including Rocket Lab and Stratolaunch.

Kongsberg is currently at the LIMA Airshow.

Poland in September 2022 announced plans to buy 96 new-build AH-64Es in an acquisition that could be worth up to $7 billion.

Boeing has delivered four of the six aircraft ordered under the research, development, test and evaluation contract, with two more set to come this summer.

Excel purchased two Boeing 757s to support the development of the FTA, named Excalibur, under contract from Leonardo.

NASA’s LROC has captured what appears to be images of debris scattered on the Moon at the planned landing site of ispace’s lunar lander, which crashed in April.

Five European countries are proposing the development of a new short-range air-to-air missile capable of countering future combat aircraft.

MBDA is offering a range of munition options for Royal Malaysia Air Force FA-50M light fighters.

Russia’s largest helicopter operator, Utair Group, may ground 30% of its fleet this year due to a shortage of spare parts and components, the firm's CEO says.

NASA has selected a new mission to study high-altitude ice clouds that form daily in Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions.

The company has a $2.5 billion backlog but also fast-shrinking cash reserves.

Spain is planning to raise national defense spending steadily to 2% of GDP by the end of the decade, enabling expenditures on a range of new equipment.

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded a contract to Ursa Major that will help it develop two key products.

While the U.S. and its partners have agreed to start training Ukrainian pilots on Lockheed Martin F-16s, the jets’ delivery will take several months.

ULA returned its first Vulcan rocket to the launchpad on May 22 in preparation for a static test firing of the booster’s dual BE-4 main engines.

Poland is to invest in airborne early warning (AEW) aircraft from Sweden, Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has revealed.

The demonstration flight was intended to give Peruvian military officials a sense of the KC-390 and the capabilities of Brazil’s defense industry.

Dueling AESA options for the F/A-50 show how far the technology has come in a short amount of time, thanks to the advent of gallium nitride semiconductors.

The Baltic States of Estonia and Latvia have selected the German IRIS-T SLM for a joint medium-range ground-based air defense requirement.

Axiom Space’s second, four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station docked to the space-facing port on the Harmony module on Monday.

With an eye on China, Tokyo ramps up ambitions for selling military equipment abroad.

SWISSto12 has received a contract to build three small geostationary communications satellites for Inmarsat.

Blue Origin has succeeded on its second try to win a NASA contract to ferry astronauts to and from lunar orbit and the Moon’s surface.

The U.S. Air Force is designing its Collaborative Combat Aircraft program—uncrewed systems that will fly alongside future fighters—to be fielded in increments.