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By Irene Klotz
Less than five weeks after technical issues thwarted Astra Space’s first commercial mission, the Alameda, California, startup returned to the launchpad March 15 with a successful flight for another paying customer.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Flow-control products and services provider Circor has announced it is in talks for a possible sale of all or part of the company, and also that it rescinded its financial reports for 2019-20 due to its Pipeline Engineering business unit.
Supply Chain

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei set a new record for the longest single spaceflight by an American on March 15 while aboard the International Space Station.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Three companies will each build 42 small communications satellites to support a new constellation of U.S. military reconnaissance and missile tracking
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. government has approved plans to export Boeing F-15EX fighters to Egypt, the head of U.S. Central Command told lawmakers March 15. “In the
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Slovakian startup AeroMobil is briefing potential investors on its plans to set up the first door-to-door aerial ridesharing service in the U.S. using a four-seat drive/fly vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
MDA has been awarded a $269 million contract by the Canadian Space Agency to complete preliminary design of the Canadarm3 robotic arm for Gateway, a space station planned for lunar orbit.
Space

By Irene Klotz
George Nield, who oversaw commercial spaceflight for the FAA before becoming a private consultant, is among five paying passengers slated to ride on Blue Origin’s next flight of its New Shepard suborbital system, with liftoff targeted for March 23.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s Roscosmos space agency has assured the U.S. that NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei will be returning to Earth from the International Space Station as planned aboard the Soyuz MS-19 that is set to land in Kazakhstan on March 30.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The head of U.S. Pacific Air Forces favors choosing the Boeing F-15EX to replace two squadrons of aging F-15C/D fighters at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
After spending a decade building up a portfolio of low-cost unmanned aircraft systems aimed at disrupting the low end of the market for autonomy in military aviation, Kratos Defense is now taking aim at the burgeoning market for hypersonic vehicles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bill Carey
A city police department that was an early adopter of using drones for law enforcement purposes in the U.S. recently surpassed 10,000 missions.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Germany is now set to purchase Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to partially replace the country’s aging Panavia Tornado fleet.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Two U.S. Air Force pilots have become the first to conduct crewed test flights of an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft under the service’s Agility Prime program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Pictures of the MIUS prototype fuselage in assembly at the company’s facility in Istanbul were published online by the company’s chief technology officer.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The first of three Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Block 30 (I) Global Hawks arrived in Japan March 12, more than three years after the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) contract was signed in November 2018.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
The Indian Defense Ministry is investigating how an unarmed, supersonic missile flew by accident from the Indian state of Haryana 124 km (77 mi.) into Pakistan on March 9.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
With a growing chorus of lawmakers calling on the Biden administration to help send Soviet-era fighter jets to Ukraine, the Pentagon is sharing more detail on the air battles over that nation to argue more aircraft are not needed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Venturi Astrolab, the bespoke European car company’s space startup comprising NASA and SpaceX alumni in Hawthorne, California, has unveiled its Flex rover family for manned Moon and Mars missions.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Croatian Ministry of Defense is examining the wreckage of an uncrewed aircraft that crashed near Zagreb, apparently having overflown Hungary and Romania and may have come from Ukraine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA has reached an “inflection point” as it looks to transition its human-spaceflight focus from low-Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars, according to the chair of the NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Philippine Air Force has taken delivery of its first T129 ATAK attack helicopters from Turkish Aerospace, becoming the first export customer for the platform.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Finland’s Aurora Propulsion Technologies and U.S. space traffic-management startup Kayhan Space have partnered to develop a system to autonomously identify collision threats and automate avoidance maneuvers in low Earth orbit.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Pakistan has inducted its first batch of six Chengdu J-10C multi-role fighters, a week after they were delivered to Kamra Air Base on March 4. This marks the first export for the Chinese-made type, which was acquired by Pakistan in response to India’s acquisition of Dassault Rafales.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Republic of Singapore Air Force has unveiled an improved command-and-control system, fitted with combat-management and decision-support features and packed with data analytics and artificial intelligence.
Missile Defense & Weapons