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By Mark Carreau
Artemis I, NASA’s approaching test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and uncrewed Orion capsule around the Moon and back to Earth, could be paving the way for more than human deep-space exploration.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Artemis I, NASA’s approaching test flight of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and uncrewed Orion capsule around the Moon and back to Earth, could be paving the way for more than human deep-space exploration if the world’s most powerful rocket lives up to expectations that include launching more than astronauts.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force HH-60W combat rescue helicopter will start initial operational test and evaluation within weeks, as the final stages of engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) test are wrapping up, the service and Sikorsky said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force is looking to move quickly on the possible purchase of Boeing’s E-7A Wedgetail by sending test officials to the UK and working with Australia on their programs to meet required test points before a buy is decided.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can significantly alter mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Western aerospace and defense (A&D), several seasoned experts said recently at separate events, including Aviation Week’s Raw Materials and Commercial Aviation Supplier conferences.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Aviation Week Staff
Russian State Space Corp. Roscosmos formally canceled the launch of 36 OneWeb satellites aboard the Soyuz 2.1b rocket that had been slated to lift off on March 4 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Volocopter has received a first tranche of $170 million in Series E financing, with additional investment in the pipeline as the German electric vertical takeoff and landing startup works toward launching urban air taxi service in 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Satellites detected GPS interference on the border between Ukraine and Belarus shortly before Russia invaded on Feb. 24, according to data released on March 4 by commercial space company HawkEye 360.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Thierry Dubois
Further requests from Airbus are delaying the signing of a contract for the demonstration phase of the Future Combat Air System, according to Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Space Force’s plan to replace its Space Based Infrared System of satellites took another step forward as prime contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman selected payload providers for their next-generation satellites on March 1.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is forcing the French ministry of armed forces to rethink some plans, from a satellite launch to the use of large military transports.
Space

By Guy Norris
Long-running U.S. interest in the potential application of pressure-gain combustion to high-speed propulsion is stepping up to a new level with the award of a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to Pratt & Whitney for a rotating-detonating engine demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is confident one of his key priorities—the development of a UAS that will fly along with an advanced fighter—is realistic in the near term based on multiple efforts in the U.S. and Australia.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military on March 1 established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense aimed at avoiding incidents in the airspace over Eastern Europe amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Irene Klotz
Russia will stop supplying RD-181 engines, which are used on Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, to the U.S. in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed in response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A solicitation for a $334 million hypersonic demonstrator missile is now in industry hands, with responses due to the Air Force Research Laboratory in May and contract award in December.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The first U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider test aircraft has started ground evaluations, and the sixth example of the next-generation bomber has started production, the service announced March 3.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to make it easier to export some of its highest-end air-to-air weapons to ensure close partner nations can have the most advanced missiles so that their F-35s, for example, can be effective.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup CoFlow Jet has struck an agreement with NASA to commercialize deflected-slipstream technology that would enable an electric vertical/short takeoff and landing (eV/STOL) aircraft to transition to efficient cruise without requiring tilting mechanisms or separate lift rotors.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO Eileen Drake has recruited several more industry and military luminaries in an effort to present a full board of directors who would push off Executive Chairman Warren Lichtenstein and his dissident slate of financial sponsors ahead of the embattled propulsion provider’s annual shareholder meeting.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA is partnering with HeroX crowdsources to seek proposals for implementing various aspects of the overall challenge of recycling and disposing of waste during deep-space missions.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Irene Klotz
OneWeb board members voted on March 3 to suspend launches of its broadband satellite constellation from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Space

By Tony Osborne
UK startup Stratospheric Platforms has demonstrated the ability to transmit 5G cell phone signals from a high altitude.
Connected Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Aircraft Industries, the Czech manufacturer of the Let family of turboprop transport aircraft, says in an open letter that its ownership by Russian holding group Ural Mining Metallurgical Company (UGMK) “is likely to change a lot for us as a company, but we ourselves do not know what the consequences will be.”
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
The designer of what is now Leonardo’s AW09 helicopter is planning to unveil a new concept for a single-engine rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion