Defense

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Co., Costa Rica SRL, and Mesoamerica, a Latin American asset manager, are forming a joint venture, ProNova Energy, to develop green hydrogen energy strategies for a global customer base and Latin American prospects
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
Aphelion Aerospace, a five-year-old startup targeting nanosatellite launches with its proposed environmentally friendly fueled rocket, is launching a crowdsourcing funding effort.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Struggling helicopter original equipment manufacturer MD Helicopters is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection to allow the company to be restructured under new ownership.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim, Graham Warwick
U.S. unmanned air logistics company Volansi has unveiled its largest and longest-flying aircraft to date.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
NATO has awarded contracts to begin risk reduction and feasibility studies in support of the Alliance Future Surveillance and Control program that will replace the alliance’s fleet of Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning platforms in the 2030s.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

General Electric and the U.S. Air Force have begun ground tests of the XA100 adaptive cycle combat engine at the Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Soyuz MS-19 descended under parachute to a safe landing in remote Kazakhstan after departing the International Space Station early March 30 with two cosmonauts and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, whose stay set a new record of 355 days for the longest U.S. human spaceflight.
Space Symposium

By Guy Norris
As part of long-term plans to pave the way for the adoption of sustainable aviation fuel by the U.S. Air Force and other military services, Rolls-Royce will test the engine destined for the Boeing B-52H retrofit program with 100% low carbon fuel around midyear.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force’s Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) wants to acquire its own flying testbed for rapid development and demonstrations of equipment.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The contract awards come as the UK retires the majority of its Hawk T1 fleet as part of cost-saving measures introduced in the government’s Integrated Review published last year.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
North Korea may have used an improved Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile in disguise for its claimed Hwasong-17 test on March 24.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Eyeing fast-growing demand for small satellite constellations from both defense and commercial customers, Boeing subsidiary Millennium Space Systems is opening a new “high-throughput” small satellite production facility.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
A cyberattack on Viasat’s KA-SAT network has the commercial communications satellite industry bracing for more.
Space Symposium

By Irene Klotz, Thierry Dubois
Trade sanctions against Russia leave European missions grounded.
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
D-Fend Solutions, a five-year-old Israeli counter-drone company with a growing North American presence, plans to become a publicly traded company, co-founder, Chairman and CEO Zohar Halachmi told Aviation Week in March.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA is eager to kick off the next major milestone in preparation for the first launch of the Space Launch System and Orion crew capsule—its Wet Dress Rehearsal.
Space Symposium

By Michael Bruno
Dave King, who took over as chief executive of Dynetics in 2015 to shepherd the company’s breakout and ultimately successful sale to Leidos in 2020, is stepping aside.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
These aircraft programs were the big winners in the Biden administration's fiscal 2023 budget request, with the Lockheed Martin F-35 topping the list.
AWIN Knowledge Center

U.S. Transportation Command is again looking at the number of Lockheed Martin C-130s the military now needs and its intratheater airlift requirement in the future, as the U.S. Air Force in its latest budget request is again looking to trim its Hercules fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Singapore has become the 18th country and first in Southeast Asia to join the Artemis Accords, multinational commitments aimed at encouraging a peaceful, sustainable and beneficial use of space and its exploration.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The EPFL Space Center, an outgrowth of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, has been selected as the lead organization to stand up a Space Sustainability Rating index and it intends to issue its first certifications imminently.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
U.S. defense officials have selected a unique pairing of Navy and Army systems to defend Guam from a theorized barrage of Chinese ballistic and cruise missiles, the head of the Missile Defense Agency says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Impulse Space Propulsion, a new in-orbit transfer services company founded by Tom Mueller, a SpaceX co-founder, on March 29 announced a $20 million investment in a seed round led by Founders Fund, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm established by famous technology investor Peter Thiel.
Space Symposium

By Garrett Reim
The “mature” detect-and-avoid technology could enable beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations for UAVs within the U.S. National Airspace System, the company says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Lockheed Martin is set to begin using advanced filament material from polymer 3D printing specialist Stratasys for additional aerospace parts, including flight structures for space vehicles
Space