Defense and Space

NASA is delaying its initial human lunar Artemis program missions, Artemis II and III, due to technical challenges related to crew safety.

A propulsion system leak aboard the privately operated Peregrine spacecraft will preclude a planned landing on the Moon.

The U.S. Air Force is looking for a company able to integrate the upcoming nuclear Long-Range Stand Off cruise missile on the B-52.

The White House and the DOD have ordered separate reviews following Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s decision to not immediately disclose his hospitalization.

Future European launchers will need engines in the 2,000-2,500 kn thrust range and preliminary studies have started.

Boeing fell short of its KC-46 tanker delivery target to the U.S. Air Force in 2023 following two separate delivery pauses.

China appears to be changing its aerial operations tactics around the Taiwanese air defense identification zone, ramping up its sending of balloons.

Taiwan’s AIDC says it has completed the first stage design of a basic trainer aircraft which could replace 40 Beechcraft T-34Cs.

Australian company is drawing on its space sensor background to hone in on reusable, low-cost UAS.

Rocket Lab has been awarded a $489 million contract to design, build and operate 18 Tranche 2 Transport Layer-Beta Data Transport Satellites for the SDA.

Indonesia’s government has contracted the third and final batch of its planned acquisition of 42 Dassault Rafales, the manufacturer has confirmed.

Business aviation operator and maintenance outfit Gama Aviation is in talks to buy helo emergency medical services provider Specialist Aviation Services.

“I recognize I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. I commit to doing better,” Austin said in a Jan. 6 statement.

Private equity firm Liberty Hall Capital Partners announced on Jan. 8 the merger of software providers Comply365 and Vistair Limited. sectors.

A propulsion issue, which initially prevented the spacecraft from properly orienting toward the Sun, could thwart its planned touchdown on the Moon.

Key figures in Germany’s government have signaled that Berlin will no longer oppose a British sale of Eurofighters to Saudi Arabia.

This marks the second extension of the Air Combat and Electronic Attack Sustainment contract, which initially came into effect in July 2016.

The UAE's Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Center will provide the airlock for the NASA-led, lunar-orbiting Gateway space base, under an agreement announced on Jan. 7.

The CEO talks mergers and acquisitions, growth strategy and more in a time of growing geopolitical uncertainty.

United Launch Alliance’s first Vulcan rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral SFS on Jan. 8.

Phil Jasper to President of Raytheon, Arlington, VA.

LOCKHEED MARTIN and NASA plan January 12 to roll out X-59 experimental supersonic aircraft at Palmdale, CA; NASA's Quesst team plans to select several U.S. communities to fly the aircraft and gather data on how people perceive the sound it produces and use data to adjust the current rules that prohibit commercial supersonic flight over land.

The agency has a third contract with Axiom Space under a $140 million agreement reached in February 2020 to assemble an initial commercial ISS successor.

The Indian Space Research Organization says it has conducted an initial in-space test of a 100-watt-class polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell.

Thirteen Phase 1 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts grants have been awarded by the agency for early stage technology studies.