Defense

Crew Training International, a 30-year-old specialist in providing aviation training services to the military,has been sold to acquisition-based investor Exchange Income Corp. for $45 million.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force has called in researchers from the Netherlands Aerospace Center to investigate reports of noise generated by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, after an uptick in complaints from local residents.

The UK Ministry of Defense has launched a tender for a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite to provide continuous communications and intelligence.

The first flight of the hypersonic glide vehicle built under the V-Max program will take place soon, an ArianeGroup official says.

SpaceX pursuing alternative deep-space transport.

A promising calendar of scheduled fleet upgrades faces COVID, geopolitical challenges.

The aerospace and defense industry enters 2022 facing many of the same concerns it faced in 2021.

Aviation Week editors provide context and insights into Finland’s decision to buy the F-35, the UAE’s deal for 80 Rafales and Canada’s looming fighter decision and look ahead at what’s next for the market.

NDAA adds new aircraft as Boeing looks to strengthen its future with sales to Germany, India.

Major events in aerospace and defense during 2021.

Virgin Orbit is taking a 17.5% stake in partner Hypersat as the companies work to launch a six-satellite constellation to provide hyperspectral imaging from low Earth orbit.

JLL PARTNERS acquired LCR EMBEDDED SYSTEMS (rugged enclosures; backplanes; integrated systems); Alderman & Company facilitated sale.

AAR has 10-year, $365m USAF contract to provide aircraft depot-level maintenance, mods and repairs primarily for F-16 aircraft allocated to USAFE

The first U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to be based in Europe have arrived at their future home in England.

Newly infused with public market funding, Rocket Lab said it will buy SolAero Holdings, a supplier of space solar power products and precision aerospace structures, for $80 million in cash as part of the company’s vertical integration transformation to become more of a full-service space services provider.

A cruise missile flight test vehicle struck a target vessel in the Gulf of Mexico after being launched from a pallet out the back of a Lockheed Martin MC-130J.

President Joe Biden is expected to nominate Frank Calvelli to be the assistant Air Force secretary for space acquisitions.

A UK Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon has shot down what officials have described as a “small hostile drone” operating over Syria.

An interface issue has interrupted final payload testing of the James Webb Space Telescope, causing the latest launch delay, NASA and European Space Agency officials say.

The French ministry of armed forces has renewed ArianeGroup’s contract for optical space surveillance.

The MU-B200 is a 200-kg (441-lb.) 1.2 kW satellite that aims to provide 5-Gbps (V-band) communications over Southeast Asia.

Two commercial positioning and communication satellites onboard—GeeSAT-1A and 1B—were lost in the Dec. 15 failure.

A growing number of satellite operators are either pursuing a multi-orbit strategy to provide high-capacity, low-latency data services, or are ready to jump on the bandwagon.

A series of disappointing test failures has set back U.S. hypersonic progress, even as international efforts accelerate.

Multiple providers and an assortment of vehicles herald a healthy start to commercial passenger spaceflight.