Defense

ELBIT SYSTEMS, Israel was selected to supply J-MUSIC DIRCM self-protection system for a ninth A330 MRTT for NATO.

The move announced in a March 17 acquisition notice scratches the original plan to award the contract without a competition to Northrop Grumman Mission Systems.

Astrobiotic’s Griffin lunar lander, carrying NASA’s water-hunting VIPER rover, will fly on a Falcon Heavy, perhaps in late 2023.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced an additional 500 troops will be based in Germany by the fall.

In the first of our SPOTLIGHT programmes where we turn the beam of discovery onto products and companies to keep abreast of their plans and successes, we head to Abu Dhabi.

Fixing an issue with NASA’s Mars Ingenuity helicopter will require a slight modification to the vehicle’s software, delaying the first flight test.

The second Mission Extension Vehicle, MEV-2, autonomously docked with the Intelsat 10-02 satellite on April 12 in its operational GEO location at 1 deg. West longitude.

KF-21 fighter development will strengthen economy and national defense, says South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in.

Analysts predict U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposed $715 billion fiscal 2022 defense budget request will not provoke a serious debate between hawk and doves in Congress.

Michael Schoellhorn to Chief Executive Officer-Defence and Space of Airbus (effective July 1).

Sabine Klauke to Executive VP Engineering-Defence and Space and Chief Technical Officer of Airbus (effective July 1).

In the broad sweep of history, imagine the roughly 70-year path to the creation of the U.S. Space Force as a single line on a blank page.

Jean-Brice Dumont to Executive Vice President-Military Aircraft of Airbus (effective July 1).

The announcement confirmed the spacecraft designers in Track B of Phase 1 of DARPA’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (Draco) program.

Gen. Thomas Moorman pressed a decades-long campaign through a minefield of bureaucratic and geopolitical obstacles to elevate a fractured and often dysfunctional space enterprise to a status equivalent to the naval, land and air domains.

Space Hero Partnerships has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to study sending a reality TV show winning contestant to the ISS.

Exolaunch, which specializes in rideshare brokerage and equipment, is planning a space tug for orbit-customization and debris-deorbiting.

BOEING began final assembly of first P-8A for ROYAL NORWEGIAN AIR FORCE, which has ordered five to replace six P-3 Orions and three DA-20 Jet Falcons

As more air forces pursue the capability, the global fleet of AEW aircraft is expected to expand from 330 aircraft in 2021 to 373 by 2030.

The U.S. Army plans to use like digital twins and advanced manufacturing to improve aviation sustainment.

The award begins a two-track Phase 1 for the Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Opeations (Draco) demonstration program.

Ingenuity was preparing to spin its dual rotors at full speed—the last in a series of preflight checkouts—late on April 9 when the issue occurred.

A top U.S. Marine Corps general said he hadn't seen sharp criticisms of land-based missiles in the Pacific by a U.S. Air Force counterpart, but explained the rationale for the concept.

A prototype, wing-mounted pod containing a BAE Systems ALE-55 fiber-optic towed decoy has completed airworthiness and effectiveness testing.

Australia’s Electro Optic Systems has demonstrated technology that is key to tracking and moving space debris in low Earth orbit that uses a laser-generated guide star and adaptive optics to remove atmospheric distortion and increase the laser power on target.