Defense and Space

The launch of the uncrewed Soyuz MS-23 spaceship to the International Space Station has been postponed until early March.

President Joe Biden has ordered his national security team to begin a review of the policy implications of the series of sightings of unidentified objects.

The X-62A demonstrated “AI agents” developed by EpiSci, PhysicsAI, Shield AI and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a prototype small high-frequency direction-finding antenna that it could mount on a fixed-wing aircraft.

The DRDO chairman discusses India's plans to increase exports and for development of a future fighter aircraft, missile defense systems and UAS.

Lockheed Martin is not giving up on its bid to sell the F-21, a specialized F-16 variant, to the Indian Air Force.

The first U.S. surveillance fleet with a craft beer as a namesake inherits a counter-drug spy mission flown by a four-decade-old string of modified turboprops.

Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will include two astronauts from Saudi Arabia.

Thermoplastic fuselage; Tailless flight control; Robotic sheet-metal forming; Hydrogen aviation ecosystem.

In this A&D Future of the Industry webinar, PwC will discuss their predictions for the dynamic global space sector.

Among the lessons the French Air and Space Force has learned from the war in Ukraine is the importance of suppressing enemy air defenses.

The Indian Finance Minister last week unveiled the nation’s budget,earmarking a 44% hike in non-salary revenue outlays for defense operations and sustainment.

India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. could eventually be awarded the project to manufacture Naval Utility Helicopters.

Changes in radar restrictions in the wake of the Chinese balloon may be causing the surge in detections of unidentified objects in recent days, officials say.

Asked whether the objects shot down on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11 were balloons, Schumer replied, “They believe they were, yes."

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ordered the strike on the “unidentified object” in Canadian airspace after speaking to U.S. President Joe Biden.

The leak aboard Progress MS-21, dubbed Progress 82 by NASA, follows a similar coolant leak detected late Dec. 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft.

A U.S. Air Force F-22 shot down an unidentified flying object off the coast of Alaska on Feb. 10.

A pair of 6U science sats, originally slated to piggyback a ride to Mars with NASA’s Psyche asteroid probe, will instead launch aboard Blue Origin’s New Glenn.

Several key U.S. Air Force aircraft saw their mission-capable rates drop in fiscal 2022 compared to the prior year.

The program is part of PTDI’s CN235NG upgrade program for the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL).

Lockheed Martin's supplemental protest entered the protest docket on Feb. 6, or 40 days after the Sikorsky parent filed the first complaint against the Army.

Listen in as Aviation Week editors discuss a week of high drama, including the shootdown of China's balloon and the future of high-altitude surveillance.

India will receive 275 trainers and LCAs over the next decade, more than any other nation aside from the U.S.

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