Defense

Indian MRO and aviation services and solutions provider, Air Works, has handed over the last of the six P-8I maritime patrol aircraft after completing Phase 32 maintenance checks to Boeing and the Indian Navy.
Defense

By Chen Chuanren
Eighteen designated airways are currently affected by the war games, which have seen multiple ballistic missiles fired across the Taiwan Strait.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble
Spirit AeroSystems says it has solved one of the problems limiting the Pentagon’s ability to scale-up hypersonic weapon production.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Sterling Richmond
The E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is an airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft based on the Boeing 707-320B commercial airliner.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
After months of troubleshooting, NASA and its partners have succeeded in sufficiently unfolding a circular solar array that failed to fully deploy following the Oct. 16, 2021, launch of the Lucy asteroid probe.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Momentus’s Vigoride-3 deployed four additional satellites to low Earth orbit in July as the company works through anomalies discovered shortly after launching the space tug in May.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA is on track to complete work on its first Space Launch System rocket and roll the vehicle out to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B on Aug. 18 ahead of liftoff on the Artemis I flight test.
Space

By Tony Osborne
UK-based uncrewed aircraft system development house Blue Bear says it has developed a beyond-visual-line-of-sight communication bridge to link with air vehicles too small to carry a BVLOS communication system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
When Gen. James Hecker began his flying career in the U.S. Air Force in the cockpit of an F-15C in the early 1990s, he and his fellow pilots knew exactly what their job would be: Fight the Soviet Union.
Budget, Policy & Operations

LOCKHEED MARTIN doubled its venture capital fund from $200m to $400m to continue to accelerate future defense innovation through investment in start
Defense

BRISTOW acquired BRITISH INTERNATIONAL HELICOPTER SERVICES, which currently operates a fleet of two SAR-configured AW189s, three S61s, and one AS365
Defense

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force during its last premier Red Flag exercise connected multiple ranges across the American West for the first time under a new agreement with the FAA.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Beijing said the drills are being conducted in response to Pelosi’s visit and will last until Aug. 7.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
The acquisitions mean Slingshot will be able to offer satellite operators a better understanding of the growing number of objects on orbit and other threats.
Commercial Space

Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Company (ADNEC) has opened the e-registration for the International Defence Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) and the Naval Defence Exhibition and Conference (NAVDEX).
Aerospace

By Sash Tusa
The F-35 and Typhoon are soaring, while development of Franco-German FCAS and sales of the Swedish Gripen lag.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Space Rapid Capabilities Office uses independence and contracting leeway to deliver classified projects quickly.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s upcoming demonstration includes new solar panels, deployable structures, cooling systems.
Space

By Irene Klotz
As a backup plan, rotorcraft will retrieve sample tubes for the return trip to Earth.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. State Department on Aug. 2 approved two major air defense sales to nations in the Middle East: a possible $3.05 billion sale of MIM-104E Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia and a possible $2.245 billion sale of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missiles to the United Arab Emirates.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
NASA is updating requirements for future private astronaut missions to the International Space Station based on some lessons learned from the pioneering 17-day Axiom Space-1 mission to the orbital science lab flown in April.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force wants to know what the space domain awareness software tracking capabilities industry can provide as it looks to phase out multiple old systems at many operating locations that serve the SDA mission.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The MQ-9 strike in the heart of Kabul that took out al-Qaida’s senior leader was the culmination of almost a year of “over-the-horizon” U.S. counterterror operations, and a sign of how the U.S. wants to operate its Reaper fleet in the future.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
South Korea is becoming Poland’s new defense partner, as the NATO nation rearms in the face of Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations