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By Irene Klotz
The 212-ft. core stage will be used for the agency’s Artemis II mission.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Clayton Turner, the director of NASA’s Langley Research Center, was named the STMD acting administrator.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The mission is planned to launch to the lunar south pole in late 2024.
Space

By Graham Warwick
The facility in Chelveston, England, is planned to be operational by 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Australian and Canadian companies have emerged as winners in the UK’s £1 billion ($1.3 billion) effort to develop a hypersonic weapon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Alan Dron
Airline pilots have reported a worsening of the GPS spoofing problem, as a new “hotspot” has appeared around the southern Russian port city of Novorossiysk.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Michael Bruno
KBR’s board unanimously OK’d the purchase, but it is subject to certain regulatory approvals prior to closing.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Lockheed Martin has announced a series of offset items for Thailand should it choose the F-16 Blk. 70/72 package.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
Senate authorizers want to take almost all of the remaining funding away from the U.S. Navy’s fiscal 2025 budget request for its next-generation F/A-XX fighter.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The French Air and Space Force is forming a new squadron with the Rafale now that manufacturer Dassault has resumed deliveries of the fighter to France.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Italy's acquisition of 24 new Eurofighters, referred to as F-2000s, enables the air force to replace its Tranche 1 Eurofighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that the UK's new strategic defense review will bolster what he called “our hollowed-out armed forces.”
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
German defense startup Donaustahl says it will supply Ukraine with an unspecified number of Maus loitering munitions.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Robert Wall
ESA has given the provisional go-ahead for a mission to fly by the Apophis asteroid in 2029 as part of planetary defense, with NASA also sending Osiris-Apex.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Pivotal says it has delayed customer deliveries of its Helix personal electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft to 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Matthew Fulco
Defense tech startups raised $9.1 billion in the first half of 2024 compared to $34.9 billion for all of 2023 and $35.8 billion in 2022, a new report says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Vivienne Machi
The SASC says it wants a progress report on the Pentagon’s efforts to field new capabilities to monitor air or ground targets in real time from space.
Budget, Policy & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Chinese privately funded launch company iSpace has suffered its fourth failure in seven launch attempts.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Acquisition and budget documents point to the quiet emergence of a third capability: signals intelligence.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Taiwanese ministry of national defense (MND) says flight control software issues were the primary cause of delays.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A longevity, thrust and fuel efficiency upgrade for the Lockheed Martin F-35 has passed a preliminary design review (PDR) milestone, Pratt & Whitney says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
As part of the review, the Pentagon rescinded the Sentinel program’s Milestone B approval from 2020.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
The magnetic field of Jupiter, the Solar System’s largest planet, is 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies says it has completed two more evaluation deployments for the U.S. Air Force with its prototype Alia electric aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Archer Aviation and Southwest Airlines have partnered to evaluate the integration of Midnight air taxis into the carrier’s operations across California.
Advanced Air Mobility