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By Chen Chuanren
The Taiwan Navy has grounded all of its Sikorsky S-70C(M) helicopter fleet after one crashed at Zuoying Naval Base on June 22, leaving four injured, including one critically.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
A coalition consisting of Singapore’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAAS) and its Economic Development Board’s Office for Space Technology and Industry (OSTIn), along with SITA and Startical, has signed a memorandum of understanding to commence a proof-of-concept trial of space-based VHF communication for air traffic control (ATC) purposes.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Guy Norris
As part of Boeing’s growing suite of safety initiatives, the company has selected Aireon to provide historic and near real-time flight data to expand the aircraft manufacturer’s advanced data-analytics capabilities.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Spanish unmanned-aircraft manufacturer Umiles has unveiled a concept prototype of an electric air-taxi and its design for a piloted two-passenger production aircraft, the Integrity3. A single-seat design, but remotely piloted, the prototype is planned to fly mid-year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
Four mystery satellites accompanied the Globalstar FM-15 communications satellite into orbit, data posted on the 18th Space Defense Sqdn.’s Space-Track.org website show.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The Space Development Agency has issued a solicitation for the design, development and deployment of its Tranche 1 Demonstration and Experimentation System satellite constellation.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
After having said recently the first flight of an Ariane 6 medium- to heavy-lift launcher will not take place until 2023, European Space Agency Director General Josef Aschbacher has announced details will not be discussed publicly until July 13.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Navy and U.S. Central Command have ended the RQ-4 Global Hawk Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator mission after 13 years in the Middle East.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
The advanced-air-mobility supply base is widening, with Airbus selecting automotive industry players KLK Motorsport and M&F Gerg to design and produce the rear fuselage of the CityAirbus NextGen electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is undertaking a new approach to electromagnetic spectrum operations, mainly with the nascent development of an uncrewed teaming aircraft to couple with the Next Generation Air Dominance that can carry jamming capabilities.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Mars Insight science team plans to extend marsquake-data gathering by the probe’s seismometer while available power dwindles daily due to dust accumulating on the lander’s solar arrays.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Two initiatives have been unveiled in Europe and the UK to help advance the use of hydrogen to decarbonize aviation.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The U.S. has committed about $6.3 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the Biden administration, including $5.6 billion
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Dave Gitlin, the former head of erstwhile UTC Aerospace Systems and now chairman and CEO of air-conditioning giant Carrier, is joining the Boeing board of directors.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The House Appropriations defense subcommittee is blasting the U.S. Air Force for not only changing how many Boeing F-15EXs it wants to buy, but how it is buying them.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
NASA managers on June 21 were reviewing results of a modified fueling test of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket, which culminated when the onboard flight system software aborted the countdown.
Space

By Brian Everstine
A proposed amendment to the House Armed Services Committee’s markup of the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill would add $37 billion to the panel’s topline and plus-up Pentagon acquisitions, including another addition to the U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 program.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Energy Department has awarded three conceptual-design contracts for Moon-based nuclear-fission powerplants for NASA’s Artemis missions starting in the 2030s.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s government has approved simplified procurement legislation enabling the country’s military to spend its recently approved €100 billion ($105 billion) special fund for 2022 more easily.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Israel Aerospace Industries says it has secured a “multimillion” deal to supply ELL-8222SB Scorpius-SP jammer pods to an unspecified Asian country.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Thierry Dubois
Safran has made an undisclosed investment in Sintermat, a five-year-old company specializing in an advanced sintering process for higher-performance engine components.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The uncrewed aircraft division of Kenya Airways, Fahari Aviation, has signed a letter of intent with Embraer spinoff Eve for up to 40 electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
Technical issues that curtailed three Space Launch System tanking tests at the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B in April appear to have been resolved, but a new issue stymied a fourth practice countdown underway on June 20.
Space

By Mark Carreau
A test of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus resupply capsule’s ability to raise the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS) while docked to it was aborted quickly June 20.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Canada will spend CAN$4.9 billion ($3.8 billion) over the next six years to upgrade the radar system that defends North America.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare