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By Graham Warwick
Volocopter has flown its larger, longer-range VoloConnect winged electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Northrop Grumman has been developing a turbojet-powered loitering munition called Jackal with 300-mph speed and a 15-min. loiter capability at a range of 100 km (62 mi.), the company says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Boeing has released concepts of two different, carrier-compatible missiles—one powered by a dual-combustion scramjet and the other by a high-supersonic ramjet—for the first time.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
NASA’s first Space Launch System Moon rocket is back at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B for a fourth attempt to test fueling operations ahead of launch on the Artemis I uncrewed flight test around the Moon.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK is giving some of its M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems to Ukraine as the country seeks longer range systems to target Russia’s heavy artillery.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Germany is planning to purchase utility helicopters and enlarge its Boeing P-8 Poseidon fleet with €100 billion ($107 billion) from its special defense modernization fund.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
China has launched another three astronauts into space as construction of the Tiangong space station enters its next phase.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury has called for enhanced European cooperation on defense procurement and for EU member states to be more supportive of Europe’s defense industry.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A high-speed sled was recovered after accelerating to around Mach 5.6 on a 10-mi.-long, 9-in.-wide monorail track in the New Mexico desert, the U.S. Air Force said on June 2.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s Progress MS-20 linked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on June 3, completing a two-orbit launch to docking to deliver a 3-ton cargo of propellant, drinking water, food and other supplies for the orbital lab’s seven crewmembers.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Bern’s Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport says it can sign contracts before the “Stop F-35” initiative can be voted on.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s competition watchdog has called on offshore helicopter operator CHC to unwind its acquisition of Babcock’s rotary-wing oil and gas services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is planning a flight deck upgrade to avoid expected obsolescence issues and a lack of spares that could ground the C-17 fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

SONY CORPORATION OF AMERICA announced formation of SONY SPACE COMMUNICATIONS CORP. to develop small optical comms devices for LEO microsatellites
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies has completed a 1,220-nm mission with its Alia-250c electric aircraft, flying the prototype from its test base in Plattsburgh, New York, to Bentonville, Arkansas, for display at the UP.Summit on June 6-8.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA has lined up some forward-looking research for its next resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA plans to add five more Crew Dragon missions to SpaceX’s Commercial Crew flight services contract on a sole-source basis, as the agency continues to work with Boeing to certify a second transportation system to ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force this month will finalize its force design for how it will move the ground moving target indication mission from aircraft to space, with the plan to shape the 2024 budget request. The U.S. Air Force wants to retire its E-8C Joint Stars that currently serve in this role, with much of the capability to come from satellites. This plan faces several hurdles, however, not the least of which is physics.
Space

Aviation Week Staff
Sukhoi and MiG have formally merged with parent company United Aircraft Corp., with both legacy Soviet fighter manufacturers having ceased to exist as separate entities as of June 1. “Strong and worldwide-known Sukhoi and MiG brands will last in the assembled aircraft, while their reputable design schools will continue to evolve,” said Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec, UAC’s parent company.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio, Guy Norris
Startup propulsion company Ursa Major announced June 2 that it is offering a 200,000 lb. thrust liquid oxygen and methane staged-combustion rocket engine called Arroway.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Thales and Indonesia state-run defense company PT Len have signed an agreement to acquire 13 GM403 air defense radars for the country’s military.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon and the intelligence community are close to wrapping up a Space Strategic Review to outline the government’s policies for operations in space, including the mix of offensive and defensive systems and the extent to which they need to be classified.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
South Korea’s Defense Project Promotion Committee has OK’d spending KRW750 billion ($605 million) to upgrade the country’s MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missiles from the PAC-2 to the PAC-3 standard.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Voters in Denmark have approved a referendum in favor of closer defense cooperation with the European Union.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Japan has conducted a helicopter flight powered by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a first in the country.
Aircraft & Propulsion