Defense and Space

Development work on the U.S. Air Force’s experimental, hypersonic Mayhem vehicle has been paused following the completion of an early design milestone.

On July 20, 1944, in the midst of World War II, the U.S. War Department announced that a Douglas C-54 Skymaster transport aircraft had made the first nonstop flight between London and Washington.

Leonardo Helicopters’ Polish affiliate, PZL-Swidnik, has opened a production line on which AW149 battlefield support rotorcraft will be built for Poland.

The U.S. Air Force conducted the first of two planned intercontinental ballistic missile tests this week—firing a Minuteman III with one reentry vehicle.

Turkish uncrewed air systems developer Baykar Technology has demonstrated its Bayraktar TB3 platform can be operated from a ship fitted with a ski jump.

House appropriators want to cut the administration’s planned military procurement and operations spending, to allow for more R&D and personnel spending.

Taiwan’s new minister of defense says he plans to create a technology development division similar to the U.S, Defense Department’s Defense Innovation Unit.

Joby Aviation has acquired the autonomy division of Xwing, a U.S. startup developing a modular autonomous flight system for aircraft.

Belgium’s government has approved a long-awaited purchase of 15 Airbus H145M twin-engine light helicopters for the country’s military.

Finnish F/A-18 Hornets have deployed to Romania’s Mihail Kogălniceanu AB, where they will be on QRA duty alongside UK RAF Eurofighter Typhoons.

With the Collaborative Combat Aircraft, the head of Lockheed Martin’s advanced development arm challenges U.S. Air Force planners and competitors.

L3HARRIS sold its antenna and related businesses (part of its Space & Airborne Systems segment) for $200m to affiliate of KANDERS & COMPANY.

NH90 manufacturer NHIndustries is urging the Swedish government not to retire the country’s fleet of the helicopters early and replace them with UH-60s.

A high-profile, privately financed sortie around the Moon aboard a SpaceX Starship spacecraft has been canceled.

Nara Space Technology, a South Korean manufacturer of small satellites, announced on May 31 that it had raised $14.5 million in a Series B fundraising.

DIU is interested in partnerships with companies building radiation-tolerant and radiation-hardened microelectronics.

The life expectancy of a future Collaborative Combat Aircraft is not a trivial question.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Open Cosmos to build seven satellites for the Greek government for €60 million ($65.4 million).

DIU announced June 3 that it has awarded contracts to Anduril, Integrated Solutions for Systems Inc., Leidos Dynetics and Zone 5 Technologies.

The launch of NASA’s second Prefire Earth science mission small satellite has been rescheduled due to an off-nominal liquid oxygen propellant detection.

A Japanese consortium has committed to invest $100 million in Aalto, the Airbus-owned spinoff company flying the Zephyr high-altitude, pseudo-satellite UAS.

ULA has resolved a ground support system problem that scotched a June 1 launch attempt of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket.

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China's Chang’e 6 lunar lander landed on the far side of the Moon at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time on June 2.

A second attempt to launch two astronauts on a shakedown cruise of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft was called off 3 min. 50 sec. before liftoff on June 1.