Defense

Poland has signed an agreement for the production of 48 M903 Patriot launchers, part of Warsaw’s wider push to enhance its air and missile defense capacity.

The Royal New Zealand Air Force took delivery of its first Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 Hercules on Aug. 8 to kick off a much-needed fleet modernization.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the first U.S. military payloads to be hosted onboard allied commercial satellites launched on Aug. 11.

While Taiwan's defense spending has been rising in recent years, officials have acknowledged that next year will represent the peak of Taipei's defense spending—at least in the medium term.

Power-dense motors; controls from high flyers; rechargeable thermal battery; in-space refueling port.

The Russian aircraft manufacturer is pursuing attack and logistics UAV concepts that have evolved because of the war in Ukraine.

The Hybrid Space/Submarine Architecture Ensuring Infosec of Telecommunications (HEIST) initiative was launched July 31.

Plumbing and wiring were removed or incorporated into the new engine’s primary structure.

The rocket lifted off from China’s Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center on Aug. 6 with 18 Qianfan “Thousand Sails” satellites.

The company is tripling its capacity at Maryland and West Virginia production facilities.

Ispace distributed an image of a Komatsu tracked excavator on the lunar surface as part of its Aug. 8 announcement.

The rocket is intended for a September 2028 inaugural launch as part of the Artemis IV mission.

AUKUS defense pact partners have been testing the integration of autonomy and artificial intelligence (AI) on uncrewed air systems (UAS).

Experts from the U.S. and Australia have performed tests on the Defense Advanced GPS Receiver (DAGR) in an anechoic chamber to mimic contested and limited GPS conditions.

A fault in a circuit board in the pitch trim servo of a Sikorsky S-92 helicopter could be a potential factor in the fatal crash off the coast of Norway in February, investigators say.

Eutelsat says the slower-than-expected deployment of some OneWeb ground infrastructure is denting sales growth, also flagging a likely delay to its Flexsat.

Long Beach, California-based Rocket Lab recorded sales of $106 million, up 71% year-on-year, in the April-June period.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

The CODA system automatically translates and standardizes commercially derived data points to support space domain awareness missions.

Seoul is preparing its future fighter for near-term service and a long-term evolution.

The spacecraft’s propulsion system issues are driving plans to end Boeing’s Crew Flight Test.

The engineering and manufacturing development phase is scheduled to be completed by 2027.

The value of FMS export contracts signed this year already set a new annual record at more than $80 billion.

New fleets of AH-1Zs in Bahrain, Nigeria, and soon Slovakia need only endure for about 40 years to carry the program over the 100-year mark.

Founded in 2020, Denver-based H3X closed the oversubscribed Series A round on Aug. 6.