Defense and Space

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

Following an assessment of a sequence of gyroscope issues last month, NASA plans to resume Hubble Space Telescope science operations on Dec. 8.

Air Space Intelligence has closed a $34 million Series B funding round.

Congress appears ready to give the military services limited authority to start new programs ahead of direct authorization and appropriation.

MDA's deputy director offered several explanations to potentially justify an earlier down-select to one NGI contractor.

The Kazakhstan Air Defense Forces continues to build up its fleet, greeting the arrival of two Czech-made Aircraft Industries L-410 light utility turboprops at Aktobe airfield on Dec. 5.

Congressional authorizers want a broad relook at U.S. Air Force and Navy tactical aircraft force structure.

Signing of the DCA comes ahead of Sweden’s entry into NATO, which continues to be delayed as both Hungary and Turkey have yet to ratify its membership.

Safran may take the Italian government to court after Rome blocked its purchase of Collins Aerospace's actuation and flight control systems business from RTX.

With the Ariane 6 seeing progress at last and Avio leaving Arianespace, the European Space Agency takes steps toward a competition for Europe’s future launchers.

HENSOLDT GROUP agreed to acquire ESG ELEKTRONIKSYSTEM- UND LOGISTIK in deal valued at €675m to accelerate its sensor solutions strategy by building on ESG’s software engineering and systems integration expertise.

DARPA has selected 14 companies to study designs for integrated lunar infrastructure as part of its 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study.

The entire Bell Boeing V-22 fleet has been grounded.

The payloads should be able to find, fix and track maritime ships, with weapons-level targeting accuracy, a request for information released on Dec. 5 says.

The Pentagon on Dec. 6 announced another drawdown of materiel for Ukraine.

NASA has amended plans to acquire a U.S. Deorbit Vehicle capable of executing a controlled deorbit of the International Space Station.

The U.S. Air Force is looking to potentially outsource its training of NATO pilots on fast jets.

Eaton is tapping a veteran Collins Aerospace executive to take over from Nanda Kumar, the longtime president of Eaton Aerospace.

The Boeing 747-400 will work in conjunction with Stratolaunch’s Roc carrier aircraft to conduct air launches for hypersonic tests in multiple U.S. locations.

Leveraging cloud-native architectures can help the U.S. military modernize electromagnetic spectrum operations.

Such hurdles as espionage and supply chain issues stand in the way of a more reliable indigenous defense industry.

The need to counter faster, more powerful drones at a large scale is becoming the “problem of our time,” a top Defense Department weapons buyer says.

Sweeping changes and streamlining plan targets fourfold profit increase by 2027 and exit from electric propulsion sector.

FOKKER has EASA STC to convert G550 to maritime sureveillance aircraft for operation by the JAPAN COAST GUARD.

The 55th anniversary of NASA’s Apollo 8 Christmas mission, the first by humans to fly around the Moon and send back imagery of the Earth, is just days away.