Defense

Northrop Grumman’s 17th NASA-contracted resupply capsule rendezvoused with the International Space Station early Feb. 21.

Emirati defense manufacturer Edge Group says it has developed a swarming drone capability designed to overwhelm an adversary’s defenses.

Indonesian airframer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) plans to improve its aircraft assembly capabilities and is in “constant discussion” with Airbus on building C295 turboprops for export from Indonesia.

Leonardo will attend the UMEX exhibition, which runs from the 21st to the 23rd of February in Abu Dhabi.

Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Presidential Affairs, today opened the fifth edition of UMEX & SimTEX 2022.

Thailand’s light attack helicopter program has seen some progress after the U.S. Army awarded Boeing a contract to build AH-6i helicopters for the Southeast Asian nation.

Working on behalf of NASA, crowdsourcing veterans HeroX and DrivenData have announced a new competition, “Mars Spectrometry: Detect Evidence for Past Life.”

Northrop Grumman’s 17th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) is set for a Feb. 19 launch from the agency’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, to deliver 8,300 lb. of cargo and perform the first station orbit-boosting to use U.S. hardware.

The UK and France have launched the long-awaited next step in their joint development of both a future cruise missile and an anti-ship weapon.

The Lockheed Martin fighter is on track to be certified to carry a nuclear weapon by January 2023 and deploy on nuclear missions a year later.

Astroscale has resumed its ELSA-d mission to demonstrate active debris removal in low Earth orbit.

The U.S. Navy on Feb. 18 confirmed that the Bell Boeing CMV-22B tiltrotor achieved initial operational capability status near the end of 2021 as

Space tourist company Virgin Galactic, whose stock price has been on a proverbial roller coaster in recent months, said Feb. 18 that Chamath Palihapitiya is no longer chairman of the board or even a member.

The U.S. military is relying more on allies in the region as American companies aim to increase manufacturing in Pacific nations.

A major Rafale sale to Indonesia shakes up murky Southeast Asia fighter spending plans.

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

Leonardo has revealed it has completed firings of guided and unguided rockets from its AW149 twin-engine troop transport helicopter.

Europe is set to develop its own satellite constellation for secure and resilient communications that will improve its capacity to monitor satellites and debris.

Airbus is confident that it will finally secure FAA certification of its H160 twin-engine medium rotorcraft later this year, more than two years after European approval was granted for the aircraft.

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $140 million contract to Raytheon on behalf of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) to deliver 36 active electronically

Blue Origin plans to introduce a second New Shepard capsule and booster for passenger flights from West Texas this year, CEO Bob Smith said.

As the U.S. Army heads toward selecting a winner of its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition by mid-2022, the Sikorsky/Boeing team is continuing to flesh out the capabilities of its offering with new flight-test milestones for the SB-1 Defiant demonstrator.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is seeking information from satellite tracking companies about data products and services they could provide to support a repository of satellite information.

Engineers are advancing the final assembly of Airbus’ Racer compound high-speed rotorcraft demonstrator.

Max Polyakov, a Ukrainian co-founder of launch company Firefly Aerospace, said he handed off his majority stake in the startup to co-founder and CEO Tom Markusik under pressure from U.S. officials.