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By Matthew Fulco
Lockheed Martin has led a $100 million Series B investment in X-Bow Systems, a defense technology startup that manufactures solid rocket motors.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA has named four new inductees into the agency’s Inventors Hall of Fame.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
Vertical Aerospace is the latest eVTOL developer to announce plans to develop a hybrid-electric version of its eVTOL aircraft with longer range.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Eve Air Mobility continues to plan for a first flight toward the middle of the year with its engineering prototype.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Official accounts of claimed victories and alleged losses vary wildly in the latest conflict between India and Pakistan.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Aviation Week Staff
Russia’s space agency Roscosmos and China National Space Administration have signed a memorandum of cooperation to create a power station on the Moon.
Space Exploration

By Tony Osborne
Spanish defense electronics firm Indra has unveiled concepts for a remote carrier uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) designed to carry a range of payloads.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Robert Wall
Satellite broadband provider Viasat says its Global Xpress service is now available in arctic regions that are part of its wider expansion plans.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
The UK Defense Ministry has lifted the lid on the second ground-based air defense system it has rapidly developed for use in Ukraine referred to as Raven.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Ben Goldstein
The commercial drone industry today faces enormous potential in terms of use case and market size, but realizing those ambitions will require a step-change improvement in endurance and payload.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Matthew Fulco
China said it would crack down on the smuggling of critical minerals in a move aimed at further constraining supply to the United States.
Supply Chain

By Ben Goldstein
A team led by Spanish/Australian startup Dovetail Electric Aviation has been awarded a grant to retrofit a Cessna Caravan with hydrogen fuel cell propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A political war of words has erupted in Bulgaria after the country’s first Block 70 F-16 combat aircraft went unserviceable.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has started shipboard trials of the ST Engineering Veloce 60 vertical-takeoff-and-landing (UAS).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
German startup Atmos Space Cargo has struck a joint venture agreement with uncrewed ground vehicle maker ARX Robotics.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
Germany could decide before year-end on what platform to use to meet an emerging requirement to field a standoff jammer, with the Airbus A400M a candidate.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Chen Chuanren
Pakistan used Chinese-built Chengdu J-10C fighters during an aerial confrontation with India, in what could be the first combat use of the type, a report says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
U.S. materials developer Lyten has launched an initiative to scale up production of lithium-sulfur batteries for drones used in defense applications.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Rocket Lab says it plans to fly its Neutron launcher in a U.S. Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) mission rocket cargo experiment.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Runway independence is back in discussion as a possible requirement for future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA).
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Much of the planned science return from NASA’s Artemis III Moon landing mission with astronauts will be contained in a look at the solar system’s earliest era.
Space Exploration

Aviation Week Staff
SCOUT SPACE to build Owl GEO flight unit... AIR SPACE INTELLIGENCE taps Van Ovost as advisor... RAYTHEON gets Amraam award...
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By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army will cancel a nascent program to field surveillance uncrewed aerial systems (UAS).
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s Military Aviation Authority has issued a military type certificate (MTC) for the Royal Air Force’s (RAF) new General Atomics Protector UAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Christine Boynton
In addition to provisions affecting aerospace, the deal also grants relief to UK sectors that had been facing steeper rates—aluminum, steel, and cars.
Safety, Ops & Regulation