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By Tony Osborne
The EU is to plough more than €300 million into defense aerospace projects.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has demonstrated an aerial firefighting kit for its A400M airlifter, showing that the four-engine turboprop can deliver 20 metric tons of water onto a fire in less than 10 sec.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Chen Chuanren, Tony Osborne
The German and French air forces plan deployments to the Asia-Pacific region in August, highlighting their targets to reach key points in Asia within stipulated times and demonstrate their airpower capabilities.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Chen Chuanren
The internet is abuzz with theories after a prototype Chengdu J-10C fighter aircraft was photographed with a new conformal spine, similar to those found on some Lockheed Martin F-16Ds.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Tufan Erginbilgic will replace outgoing CEO Warren East, who announced his departure in February.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Army says it is behind an ongoing test flight of Airbus’ Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite, which has broken the record for longest-duration uncrewed air system mission.
Emerging Technologies

By Garrett Reim
Relativity Space is “weeks away” from launching its first rocket, the Terran 1.
Commercial Space

Aviation Week Staff
The launch of Russia’s robotic Luna-25 lander to the Moon is likely to slip to 2023.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Bristow Group has secured a 10-year contract with the UK’s Department of Transport to provide search-and-rescue services to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
First flown in 1982 and still in production almost 40 years later, the Cessna Caravan is playing a key role in the introduction of advanced air mobility and alternative propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Training specialist CAE has unveiled its first flight simulator targeted to the electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft market and been named the pilot training partner for Vertical Aerospace’s VX4.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The warning is in Japan's 2022 Defense White Paper that also discusses tensions over the Taiwan Straits.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded a $73 million contract to Draper, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for a robotic mission to Schrodinger Basin on the Moon’s far side to conduct a series of geophysical and environmental science investigations.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti teamed up for a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on July 21 to advance activation of the 37-ft.-long, multi-jointed European Robotic Arm. The arm was launched as part of the Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module in July 2021.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is joining forces with Lockheed Martin to once again produce a rugged, non-pneumatic tire for use on the Moon.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Millennium Space Systems says it has demonstrated several new technologies–including new avionics, communications devices, onboard processing of data and radio-frequency crosslinks–with a three-satellite constellation called RED-EYE that showcases the strength of small satellites.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Energy Department has awarded Raytheon two research and development projects to test hydrogen and ammonia as zero-carbon fuels for electricity generation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA has targeted three potential launch dates for Artemis I, a multiweek uncrewed first test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on a mission around the Moon and back to Earth.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
An agreement must be reached between Airbus and Dassault Aviation in the coming weeks on the Franco-German-Spanish Future Air Combat System program or Dassault will go ahead with an unspecified Plan B, says the company’s chairman and CEO, Eric Trappier.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA has awarded SpaceX a contract to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory that is to join the James Webb Space Telescope and aging Hubble Space Telescope in studies of exoplanets and the deepest reaches of the universe.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The two-phase Gambit program will start with an 18-month preliminary design phase and end with an 18-month ground test of a full-scale propulsion system in flight conditions.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Impulse Space and Relativity Space plan to launch a commercial research and development mission to the surface of Mars as soon as 2024.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon has completed a second and last flight test of the DARPA-funded Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept, flying Northrop Grumman’s scramjet-powered demonstrator more than 300 nm at 60,000 ft.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
NASA is close to selecting a launch period for Artemis I, the initial test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule on an uncrewed mission around the Moon and back to Earth, an agency official says.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The Senate Armed Services Committee has filed its version of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill, which authorizes $847 billion for national security programs at the Pentagon and Energy Department.
Budget, Policy & Operations