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By Robert Wall
The European Union (EU) is kicking off a new round of competitions for collaborative defense R&D efforts with €1.07 billion ($1.1 billion) in funding for the 2025 European Defense Fund (EDF) work program.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic has partnered with space infrastructure company Redwire to build research payload lockers for its next-generation Delta-class spaceplane.
Space Exploration

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Navy has declared full operational capability with its Leonardo AW/EH101 Merlin Mk. 4 fleet of amphibious assault helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee is calling for more money to go into its defense industrial program to bolster the bloc’s preparedness.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
ESA has signed an $897 million contract with Thales Alenia Space for the manufacturer to deliver cargo to the lunar surface under ESA’s Argonaut Mission.
Space Exploration

By Brian Everstine
The Federal Aviation Administration in a statement said the aircraft, operating as American Airlines Flight 5342, was on approach to DCA's Runway 33.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brandon Patrick
Dassault’s emphasis on Rafale exports has borne fruit for the company in recent years, as has their focus on non-European markets.
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The Kawasaki Heavy Industries (KHI) C-2 is a medium airlifter that serves as the Japan Air Self-Defense Force’s (JASDF) primary cargo lifter along with the C-130. More profiles of major military aircraft programs are available to Aviation Week Intelligence Network subscribers at awin.aviationweek.com.
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GD reports earnings boost... SES secures loan for new satellites... SIGMA DEFENSE expands in Huntsville...
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By Ben Goldstein
Manufacturers including Archer and Joby have pushed back against the report’s conclusions.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
The flagship product of the collaboration is Site3D, a 3D point cloud map of the Earth’s surface.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Lightspeed Venture Partners led the $70 million Series A capital round.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Vivienne Machi
The M-class has a payload capacity of 1,000 kg (2,200 lb.) and 8 kW of peak power, York announced Jan. 29.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
Findings from a pair of extensive research efforts were published Jan. 29 by the journals Nature and Nature Astronomy.
Space Exploration

By Garrett Reim
The partners will use Vertix AI, Google Cloud’s machine learning platform, to analyze decades of solar activity data.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The European Space Agency says that as of Jan. 29 “the probability that asteroid 2024 YR4 may impact Earth on 22 December 2032 is 1.2%.”
Space Exploration

Aviation Week Staff
Iran later tried to muddy the disclosure, deleting the reference to the Su-35.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The engine runs took place at Sikorsky’s facility in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Draken Europe has been awarded a three-year, £173 million ($215.2 million) Interim Medium Speed Operational Readiness Training Services contract.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Tony Osborne
ADS Chief Executive Kevin Craven warned that without an appropriate plan, the UK aerospace sector’s growth potential would remain “untapped.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Airbus plans to provide an update on the technical assessment of a major space program when it publishes full-year results next month.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Lithuanian startup Airvolve has adopted horizontal-axis cyclorotor propulsion to develop a compact middle-mile logistics uncrewed air system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Planet Labs says it has secured a $230 million contract to build Pelican high-resolution satellites for an unnamed customer and announced a data provision deal with the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the Copernicus program.
Satellites

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane has completed a series of payload integration tests at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida which keep it on track for a planned mission to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) later this year.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion