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By Mark Carreau
A collaboration between Astrobotic and WiBotic has successfully advanced a wireless charging system capable of providing power throughout a simulated 14-day lunar night with its thermal and other environmental extremes.
Space

By Steve Trimble
NATO has launched a three-year Concept Stage for the Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability (NGRC) program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Launch startup Firefly Aerospace is rotating through another CEO as its recently installed private equity sponsors assert more control over the embattled new-space upstart.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
President Joe Biden has announced that the U.S. will provide Ukraine with another $1 billion in military assistance to fight its war with Russia.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Amazon plans to begin 1-hr.-or-less delivery of products via its electric MK27-2 cargo drone later this year in Lockeford, California.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Germany has retired its last Airbus A310 multirole tanker transport, leaving Canada as the final military operator of the widebody transport.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Top NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) leaders emerged from a June 15 meeting prepared to extend and strengthen a long-standing partnership in space.
Space

By Alan Dron
Two companies aiming to improve inflight connectivity have carried out what they describe as the successful delivery of high-speed, low-latency inflight connectivity from a low-Earth-orbit satellite to a commercial airliner.
Interiors & Connectivity

By Steve Trimble
Israeli company Aeronautics Group has identified the Israel Defense Forces as the launch customer for the Trojan, a small, uncrewed air system that will have solar panels embedded in the 4.2-m wingspan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
The contract from the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office practically doubles the remote-sensing upstart’s backlog.
Commercial Space

By Carole Rickard Hedden
A bill that will provide $12.5 million in grant funds to support advanced air mobility in fiscal 2022 gained House passage on June 14.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Victoria Moores, Tony Osborne
A Spanish government initiative to boost the country’s aerospace industry will help support the development of small satellite launchers and create a joint constellation of ocean reconnaissance satellites with Portugal.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
The robotic Luna-25 lander is approaching the end of its ground trials for Russia’s first Moon exploration mission since the 1970s.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Airline information technology provider SITA is to supply its Smart Path biometric identity management technology as a component of the passenger journey through vertiports to be developed by the UK’s Skyports.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
Northrop Grumman has demonstrated a secure networked laser communications system for the Space Development Agency’s proliferated low Earth orbit constellation.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The House Appropriations Committee is looking to fund the Pentagon at the same level as the fiscal 2023 budget request, but has tweaked some of the proposed aircraft buys by decreasing the number of F-15EXs for the U.S. Air Force while increasing some helicopter programs.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
South Korean conglomerate Hanwha has invested an additional $115 million in U.S. urban air mobility startup Overair, which is developing the Butterfly tiltrotor electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX needs to replace a faulty Draco thruster valve inlet joint before the the 25th NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A new version of the Switchblade 600 will be demonstrated with artificial intelligence (AI) software that allows the loitering munition to automatically identify targets observed by a sensor.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
AeroVironment expects a significant increase in demand for loitering munitions after a U.S. government decision to transfer Switchblade loitering munitions to Ukraine led to a wider export authorization for the armed flying systems.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
DARPA has launched a new project that sees a fresh role for the U.S. Air Force fleet of aerial tankers as airborne recharging points for networks of electric-powered UAS by adding a wing-mounted laser pod.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The Space Flight Laboratory deorbited its CanX-7 demonstration nanosatellite using four drag sails in April, five years after the sails were deployed and significantly sooner than it would have deorbited naturally.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
NHIndustries claims that French and German NH90 fleets will benefit from improved availability rates through a new support contract for the rotorcraft agreed to by the OEM and NATO agency NAHEMA.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
SpaceX has some more work to do before it will receive U.S. clearance to launch Starship on an orbital flight test from Boca Chica Beach, Texas, the FAA has determined in its long-awaited study assessing the program’s environmental impacts.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s gamble on a startup launch company to deliver a pair of novel hurricane-probing cubesats into orbit got off to a rough start on June 12 after the upper stage of an Astra 3.3 rocket shut down early, dooming the first two members of the agency’s Tropics constellation.
Commercial Space