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By Garrett Reim
Astranis has won a contract to show its software-defined radio-satellite payload can transmit the Defense Department’s Protected Tactical Wave.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The United Arab Emirates’ first interplanetary spacecraft is expanding its studies at Mars to include flybys of the planet’s small outer moon, Deimos.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. government has approved BAE to integrate the AAR-57 Common Missile Warning System with Leonardo’s Miysis Directed Infrared Countermeasure system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is grounding its workhorse Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker fleet temporarily, along with reconnaissance variants.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Denmark and Sweden have become the latest signatories to a NATO initiative to overcome potential gaps in the alliance’s ground-based air defense systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
India plans to direct three-fourths of its defense budget to purchasing new equipment for domestic industry in fiscal 2023-24.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Babcock will manage and operate the UK Defense Ministry’s communication satellite constellation Skynet, winning out against competition from Airbus and others.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The Indian Defense Research and Development Organization has devised an automated landing system that is being put to the test on two N-LCA platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Virgin Orbit believes it has identified what caused the premature shut down of LauncherOne’s second-stage Newton 4 engine over the Atlantic.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Demand for conducting experiments on the ISS National Laboratory remains strong after 75 payloads were sent to the orbiting platform last year.
Space

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation announced that it has begun final assembly of its first partially-conforming S4 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The leading explanation is that the three downed high-altitude objects were “benign” and tied to a commercial or other civilian purpose, officials say.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. sees a diplomatic and industrial opportunity in the number of countries looking for alternatives to their existing Russian-built platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Navy is set to operate Schiebel’s Camcopter rotary-wing uncrewed air system from its Type 23 frigates.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The platforms will be used by the Polish Air Force with their operations likely focused along the country’s border with Belarus and Russian exclave Kaliningrad.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The X-62A demonstrated “AI agents” developed by EpiSci, PhysicsAI, Shield AI and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Garrett Reim
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a prototype small high-frequency direction-finding antenna that it could mount on a fixed-wing aircraft.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
Dubai has chosen the initial locations and designs for a vertiport network that is expected to be operational in 2026.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
The DRDO chairman discusses India's plans to increase exports and for development of a future fighter aircraft, missile defense systems and UAS.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
Lockheed Martin is not giving up on its bid to sell the F-21, a specialized F-16 variant, to the Indian Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The first U.S. surveillance fleet with a craft beer as a namesake inherits a counter-drug spy mission flown by a four-decade-old string of modified turboprops.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space’s second four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station will include two astronauts from Saudi Arabia.
Space

Giriprakash Krishnamoorthy
The Indian Finance Minister last week unveiled the nation’s budget,earmarking a 44% hike in non-salary revenue outlays for defense operations and sustainment.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Giriprakash Krishnamoorthy
India’s state-owned Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. could eventually be awarded the project to manufacture Naval Utility Helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Asked whether the objects shot down on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11 were balloons, Schumer replied, “They believe they were, yes."
Sensors & Electronic Warfare