Defense and Space

Small geostationary satellite provider Astranis on April 14 announced a $250 million Series C financing round.

The company expected to gain access to the test article on April 14 to recover the dome of the Centaur V test article for analysis.

The agreement between Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Pentagon’s MCEIP will expand several facilities.

The U.S. Space Force plans to award a sole-source contract to Blue Origin for early integration studies for upcoming NSSL missions.

The new contract, announced April 13, covers studies, engineering analysis, airframe analysis and risk reduction.

The 4-ton-class H-145 and 6-ton-class H-160 are future potential options for the Brazilian army, which now operates a version of the Airbus AS565 Panther.

The IRB is chaired by Orlando Figueroa, retired deputy center director for science and technology at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.

Aero Vodochody’s new L-39NG jet trainer has completed weapons trials as the platform is evolved into a light attack aircraft.

Brazil's Jaguar Squadron has been focused on becoming acquainted with the new capabilities of the Swedish-built jets, including new sensors and weapons.

An Ariane 5 launched the European Space Agency's JUICE mission which will explore three of Jupiter’s icy moons.

North Korea test-fired a new, solid fuel intercontinental ballistic missile on the morning of April 13.

PwC's 3rd edition of the report looks in a holistic fashion at the space sector, describing the main macro-trends per domain/segments in a single compendium.

After an exhaustive series of tests Embraer’s C-390 Millennium has been awarded a Full Operational Certificate (FOC).

South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has announced plans to develop an electronic warfare platform domestically.

Benefits of bulk buys; VC-25 replacement delayed; Embraer’s European pitch; and Boeing to fly new prototype on WGS-11 satellite.

The GAO on April 13 published a 38-p. report on its denial of Sikorsky’s protest to the Army’s decision to award the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft.

The £656 million ($822 million) contract was awarded to BAE Systems on April 14.

The German government has approved a Polish request to hand over five Mikoyan MiG-29 “Fulcrum” fighters to Ukraine.

Boeing’s Protected Satcom Prototype payload is scheduled to fly on the 11th Wideband Global Satcom satellite, Boeing said April 13.

The country’s latest military programming law was presented to the Council of Ministers on April 4.

Akaer and Intra are scheduled to fly the first Samoom by the end of the year, but the timing could be extended.

The blower mechanism was delivered in November aboard Northrop Grumman’s 18th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission to the ISS.

The comments come a year after air force officials proposed to add four F-39s to the first batch, then acquire a second batch of 26.

Roberto Cingolani has been put forward to succeed Alessandro Profumo as Leonardo CEO.

The bricks would be used to construct egg-shaped “lunar pot vessel” structures for the Moon base that China is looking to build with Russia.