Defense

Splashdown is planned for 5:19 a.m. EST, following a deorbit burn at 4:35 a.m. EST.

NASA’s Earth Radiation Budget Satellite re-entered the atmosphere on Jan. 8.

The U.S. started the C-130 program for Niger in 2015.

“We have a real shot at late [February/March] launch attempt,” CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter.

The program has offered few details of the APG-85, but the upgrade comes amidst an industry-wide transition by AESA radar manufacturers to gallium nitride.

The “Sabre” system would collect and relay telemetry data from U.S. missile test ranges.

Charania will serve as principal advisor to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson for technology policy and lead the agency’s technology innovation efforts.

The defense ministry cites satellite imagery from Dec. 25 showing several Su-57s at the Akhtubinsk air base.

The Czech Republic has committed to increasing defense spending to 2% of gross domestic product.

Clive Higgins, who was the company’s director of government affairs, has taken over from Norman Bone.

The contractual agreement enables Canada to order the first four F-35As for delivery in 2026 in the Lot 18 production standard, with 84 more delivered by 2034.

The contract marks the first time red-air aggressor training has been contracted to a private company by the UK.

Turkish Aerospace CEO Temel Kotil has hinted that a first flight of the country’s indigenous combat aircraft, TF-X, could be brought forward.

As development starts winding down, Saab’s Gripen E unit is focusing on improving the global fleet of C/D models and starting to consider what comes next.

The startup is studying how tumbling debris behaves.

Fan-in-wing eVTOL; 6G sensor-comms integration; Mobile hydrogen fueler; and Drive/Fly eVTOL prototype.

The LauncherOne rocket has been loaded, and technicians are preparing to fuel it in readiness for the first orbital launch from the UK, planned for Jan. 9.

The newest tranche, announced Jan. 6, amounts to about $3.075 billion in new security assistance for Ukraine.

The Gama Alpha mission aims to test the deployment and control of the 73.3-sq. 2 (789 ft. 2) sail in low Earth orbit.

The so-called swing test involved a representative six-seat vehicle in a lift-plus-cruise configuration.

Potential partners have until Jan. 24 to respond to NASA.

The company has also selected several backup dates for the mission running into mid- and late-January.

Defense spending in Saudi Arabia performed an abrupt turnaround in 2022.

The first embarkment of the NPO Mashinostroyenia 3M22 Zircon missile on the 4,500-ton Admiral Gorshkov ship comes a year later than scheduled.

The NATO pod was developed by Spanish company Sener in collaboration with General Atomics.