Defense

By Michael Bruno
Driven by exponential growth in the number of proposed satellites in low Earth orbit and beyond this decade, investors and entrepreneurs are eyeing commercial-oriented space situational awareness (SSA) as a growth sector worthy of new investments, entrants and partnerships.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
NATO will further beef up defenses on its Eastern front, with “substantial increases” in troop numbers, air power and air and missile defenses planned in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the alliance’s chief says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio, Steve Trimble, Tony Osborne
In addition to the weapons that NATO is planning to send to Ukraine, in a dramatic role reversal, Russia is appealing to China for help in replenishing its weapons stocks.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Satellite imagery appears to confirm that a Ukrainian attack on an airfield previously captured by Russian forces resulted in the destruction of several Russian helicopters.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale to Spain of Sikorsky MH-60R anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare helicopters.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
North Korea conducted its 10th missile test on the morning of March 16, although the mission ended in failure shortly after launch, South Korean officials said.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Cablex, Crystalaid, Ferra, Levett, Lovitt, Nupress and Quickstep Holdings all inked memorandums of agreement with Boeing ahead of the JP9102 down selection.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Berlin’s reengagement with the F-35 comes as it prepares to make bolder defense commitments prompted by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Price per tail increase likely as negotiations are delayed; Lockheed points to pandemic impacts and inflation.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA has agreed to address so-called insider cybersecurity threats to its unclassified programs in response to an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Less than five weeks after technical issues thwarted Astra Space’s first commercial mission, the Alameda, California, startup returned to the launchpad March 15 with a successful flight for another paying customer.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Flow-control products and services provider Circor has announced it is in talks for a possible sale of all or part of the company, and also that it rescinded its financial reports for 2019-20 due to its Pipeline Engineering business unit.
Supply Chain

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by an American on March 15 while aboard the International Space Station.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Three companies will each build 42 small communications satellites to support a new constellation of U.S. military reconnaissance and missile tracking
Space

UK MOD is acquiring two Falcon 900LXs from Centerline for RAF to provide VIP transport, replacing four BAe 146s.
Defense

John Clark to Vice President and General Manager-Advanced Development Programs (ADP), aka Skunk Works, of Lockheed Martin.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. government has approved plans to export Boeing F-15EX fighters to Egypt, the head of U.S. Central Command told lawmakers March 15. “In the
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Alan Peaford
India’s indigenous helicopters such as the Dhruv and the Shakti featuring Safran turboshafts will now have access to a new engine MRO facility in Goa following a partnership between HAL and Safran.
MRO

By Michael Bruno
This is the year is when the bevy of SPACs that formed in 2020 faces a deal-or-no-deal moment.
Commercial Space

US

US passed FY22 Consolidated Appropriations Act to fund federal govt through 3Q22; $1.5 trillion bill includes $728.5b for DOD ($119.2b for RDT&E), $18
Defense

By Garrett Reim
MDA has been awarded a $269 million contract by the Canadian Space Agency to complete preliminary design of the Canadarm3 robotic arm for Gateway, a space station planned for lunar orbit.
Space

By Irene Klotz
George Nield, who oversaw commercial spaceflight for the FAA before becoming a private consultant, is among five paying passengers slated to ride on Blue Origin’s next flight of its New Shepard suborbital system, with liftoff targeted for March 23.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has assured the U.S. that NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will be returning to Earth from the International Space Station as planned aboard the Soyuz MS-19 that is set to land in Kazakhstan on March 30.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The head of U.S. Pacific Air Forces favors choosing the Boeing F-15EX to replace two squadrons of aging F-15C/D fighters at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
After spending a decade building up a portfolio of low-cost unmanned aircraft systems aimed at disrupting the low end of the market for autonomy in military aviation, Kratos Defense is now taking aim at the burgeoning market for hypersonic vehicles.
Missile Defense & Weapons