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By Mark Carreau
A panel of experts assembled by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics has expressed optimism that NASA, two cabinet departments and the commercial sector are prepared to address the challenges of embracing space-nuclear power and propulsion.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Apple plans to launch satellite-relayed emergency texting service to the iPhone 14 starting in November.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Poland wants to triple the size of its attack helicopter force, having declared plans to purchase nearly 100 Boeing AH-64 Apaches.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
United Airlines has become the latest advanced-air-mobility customer to place bets on electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis.
Airlines & Lessors

United Airlines has become the latest advanced-air-mobility customer to place bets on electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxis.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus is testing a pair of UK defense cubesats in readiness for the first orbital launch from the UK.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Rocket Lab has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with U.S. Transportation Command to explore using the company’s Neutron and Electron launch vehicles to transport cargo around the world.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
When the war in Ukraine shifted East in May and it was clear Kyiv would need different types of weapons from the West, the Pentagon posted a call to industry.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Albedo, a startup developing very-low-Earth-orbit imagery satellites, has raised a $48 million Series A round.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
U.S. military officials are showing off a new long-range missile-launching role for large cargo aircraft to foreign countries.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Korea Aerospace Industries is about to deliver FA-50 light combat aircraft (LCA) to an undisclosed first customer in Africa.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Thierry Dubois
Meteosat Third Generation-I1, an Earth-observation satellite designed to provide significantly improved weather data, is in the final stages of integration at Thales Alenia Space’s assembly facility.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon plans within the next week to release new guidance on reducing the impact of inflation on vendors, particularly smaller companies that have firm, fixed-price contracts without flexibility to deal with increasing costs.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The Royal Australian Air Force is not flying its Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning IIs and Boeing EA-18G Growlers to their full combat capabilities at Exercise Pitch Black.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
The Colorado Springs facility will serve as a hub to educate, train and test space warfighters and analysts in realistic virtual environments.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Israel’s SpaceIL, a nonprofit organization pursuing a privately funded mission to the Moon in 2025, plans to use computer vision for its lunar lander’s navigation.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Ben Wallace will continue as UK defense secretary in the new government formed by new Prime Minister Liz Truss.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters is planning take on Airbus in its own backyard by competing for a German requirement for a light utility helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Baykar’s Bayraktar TB2 uncrewed aircraft system could secure its 30th customer before year-end, senior company officials say.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Russia and Ukraine appear to have settled for a state of mutual denial in the air. But what do U.S. Air Force war planners make of this idea?
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Denis Matveev have picked up where they left off more than two weeks ago when their spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) was cut short by a spacesuit battery issue.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S. Marine Corps is trying out the so-called expeditionary advanced basing operations concept with its Lockheed Martin F-35B fighters while on deployment to Australia.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Montreal-based startup VPorts plans to build a network of vertiports in Quebec, focused initially on regional cargo and medical transportation using electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Saab has conducted live-firing of its motorized variant of its RBS-70NG surface-to-air missile, witnessed by military officials from a total of 15 NATO and non-NATO potential customer countries.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
China’s AVIC First Aircraft Institute has flown its Venus-50 solar-powered pseudo satellite for the first time.
Defense