Defense

LUFTHANSA TECHNIK delivered third/final A350-900 (416) to GERMANY following installation of government cabin.

Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has secured its largest order for its H225 helicopter twin-engine heavy helicopter since 2008.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Matthew Fulco
Since its founding in 2019, Space Pioneer has raised more than $552.1 million over 15 financing rounds.
Space

By Richard Aboulafia
Companies that supply engines, avionics, missiles and other systems find a market as nations seek to develop their own aircraft
Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency will within a week conduct its first test of its new space-based hypersonic missile tracking system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Missile Defense Agency will soon deliver new radars to Guam ahead of planned large-scale tests of its new ballistic missile defense architecture.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Boeing on June 6 delivered the first operational F-15EX Eagle II to the U.S. Air National Guard.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner with two NASA astronauts managed a delayed docking to the International Space Station on June 6.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The newly announced plan is part of a wider effort to expand production and repair capacity for the F-35’s acrylic transparencies.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Garrett Reim
Slingshot Aerospace has developed an artificial intelligence program to find adversary spacecraft hiding among satellite constellations.
Space

By Matthew Fulco
Isar Aerospace was founded in 2018 as a spinoff of Technical University Munich.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
The appeal comes on the heels of Washington approving two foreign military sales to Taiwan for F-16 spares and support in a deal totaling $300 million.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Airbus is to adapt a German Air Force Eurofighter combat aircraft into a testbed for manned-unmanned teaming technologies.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
With 32 of its 33 Raptor engines firing, the Super Heavy booster lifted off from SpaceX’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, spaceport at after a trouble-free countdown.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The air-launched ballistic missile compliments the surface- and ground-launched versions of the 430-km. range, 3,500-lb. LORA.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s Diehl Defense has lifted the veil on its development of an even longer-range version of its IRIS-T-based ground-based air defense system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce Germany has teamed up with ITP Aero to offer a new engine family for collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) that will lean on the proven Advance2 core.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Rome has given the greenlight to Safran's takeover of Microtecnica from RTX after concerns over the supply of components to defense programs were addressed.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Kim Minseok
The Republic of Korea Air Force retired its F-4 Phantom fleet on June 5 after 55 years of service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
After being shut out of a patrol fleet acquisition, Ottawa’s aerospace industry is gearing up to compete for a new airborne early warning contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Scaled Composites, which has built and flown a new aircraft roughly every year since forming in 1982, is still expanding in its 17th year with Northrop Grumman.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The cover of our May 14, 1979 edition featured a photo of Enterprise, the engineless test space shuttle, mounted on Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Phase 4 Enhancements (P4E) package will be the largest and most complex upgrade for the Eurofighter yet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The bulletin names the Test Flying Academy of South Africa, Beijing China Aviation Technology Co. and Stratos.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Lockheed Martin signed a deal with Firefly Aerospace for up to 25 Alpha rocket launches through 2029.
Commercial Space