Defense and Space

BAE Systems sees a pathway to keeping the Global Combat Air Program on its development timeline despite elections in the UK that could slow decision making.

An ocean world some 450 million mi. from Earth is a tantalizing candidate for life.

AIR INDUSTRIES GROUP secured $8.2m in new orders for UH-60/H-92 components. It posted $1.9m gross profit on $14m revenues in 1Q24.

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.

LINKOPING, Sweden—The first flight of Saab’s twin-seat Gripen F has been pushed into 2025, following a change in the priorities of the Brazilian Air Force customer.

Aurora Flight Sciences has unveiled a refined concept for a fan-in-wing high-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.

Venture capital firm Seraphim Space has announced its latest accelerator cohort of nine startups.

The U.S. Army is eyeing increased production of the Hellfire and Joint Air-to-Ground Missile, with a solicitation targeting a new manufacturing site for the missiles.

The U.S. Space Force has awarded Starfish Space a contract to launch and operate a new space tug as part of its broader push for in-orbit servicing.

The Singapore Defense Ministry says an F-16's "pitch rate gyroscopes gave erroneous inputs to the flight control computer," causing it to crash in early May.

Seoul's investment in domestically developed systems and technologies is set to expand South Korea’s rapidly growing footprint in global defense export markets.

As Europe faces multiple potential axes of attack, more European countries might need to reconsider their ground-based air defense plans.

Though the New Shepard capsule returned to the company’s West Texas spaceport with one of its three main parachutes not fully inflating.

The leak initially appeared during the countdown for launch of the Starliner Crew Flight Test on May 6.

The prototypes will seek new devices for Inertial sensing and magnetic sensing, plus advances in photonic systems and laser components used by quantum devices.

NASA has named David Salvagnini as the agency’s first chief artificial intelligence officer.

Eric Fanning, head of the Aerospace Industries Association, laid out a list of new legislative priorities.

NASA for the 12th year in a row has been rated as the best large federal agency for which to work in 2023, according to employee survey analysis.

A U.S. Air Force instructor pilot has died after the ejection seat of a T-6 trainer aircraft activated during ground operations.

Italy could join Germany and Spain in making a top-up order for the Eurofighter combat aircraft, industry officials have said.

Chinese commercial space company CAS Space plans to introduce suborbital space tourism, unveiling a "space traveler" capsule that will seat seven passengers.

The company suggests leveraging NASA’s deep investment in the SLS may be just the ticket to bring back samples from Mars.

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

Australia’s new defense strategy includes pricey acquisitions for both the Australian navy and air force, but data from Aviation Week’s Fleet Discovery Military tool suggest that a commensurate increase in aviation-related contract opportunities may not be in the offing.

AST SpaceMobile has signed a commercial agreement with AT&T to provide satellite-based cellular service to the company’s customers.