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By Jen DiMascio
Rocket Lab has confirmed plans to locate manufacturing facilities and launch operations for its new medium-lift reusable Neutron rocket on a 28-acre site on Wallops Island in Virginia.
Commercial Space

By Jen DiMascio
The Space Development Agency on Feb. 28 awarded agreements worth about $1.8 billion to Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and York Space Systems to develop the foundation of a mesh network of 126 optically connected communication satellites.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Germany’s Diehl Defense has confirmed its intention to join Australia’s Sovereign Missile Alliance to help local industries develop and build guided-missile systems for the Australian Defense Force under the Sovereign Guided Weapons Enterprise.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts has selected 17 proposals for $5.1 million in Phase I and II technology development activities that could advance future space and aeronautics missions.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon is exploring ways to deconflict U.S. and Russian aircraft as airspace over Ukraine continues to be contested, though so far there has not been interest from Moscow as the invasion continues.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Sanctions imposed on Russia in response to its attack on Ukraine likely will cause the European Space Agency’s ExoMars rover to miss its 2022 launch window.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Local authorities in the Shetland Islands have given a green light for the construction of the SaxaVord Spaceport.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Launch service operator Arianespace, the European Space Agency, the EU and European governments are reviewing their options after Russian space agency Roscosmos suspended cooperation with its partners at Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
China has launched a record 22 satellites into orbit following the liftoff of a Long March CZ-8Y2 rocket from the Wenchang Satellite Launch Center on Feb. 27.
Space

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
North Korea test-fired another ballistic missile on Feb. 27, which Pyongyang claims was testing equipment for a “reconnaissance satellite.”
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The European Union has said it will provide fighter jets to Ukraine as part of a €450 million ($502.3 million) support package of lethal aid.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Indian multinational engineering services provider Tech Mahindra is collaborating with Aska on the design of the U.S. startup’s drive/fly electric vertical takeoff and landing commuter vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Beginning deployment of U-space airspace for drone operations with a few pilot regions in urban areas is a key recommendation presented by German air navigation service provider DFS and its unmanned traffic management subsidiary Droniq.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
Set for launch March 1, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-T promises to help forecasters and scientists monitor and warn of weather and climate concerns on a wider scale and a faster pace, including those linked to wild fires, hurricanes, severe thunderstorms, and solar storms.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Ukrainian aircraft manufacturer Antonov said on Feb. 25 that the current status of the An-225 Mriya is unknown after more than 30 hr. of fighting at its home airport.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Ten more Ukrainian military aircraft departed the warring country on Feb. 25, eluding Russian Air Force fighters on patrol to land at a NATO base in
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to expand the use of its experimental Rapid Dragon palletized munition system, issuing a new request for information to determine what existing or upcoming systems it could deploy.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe, the long-serving Republican from Oklahoma and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has announced he will retire at the end of his term in 2027.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The Australian government is putting aside around A$65 million ($47 million) to develop three “spaceports” around the country and to buy slots on space missions to ensure Australia’s space sector can deploy and test its systems in space.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
South Korea has reportedly test-fired its indigenous long-range surface-to-air missile, which is primarily designed to protect the country against ballistic missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s intelligence agencies believe Russian forces failed to achieve their primary objectives on the first day of their campaign in Ukraine, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Russia added two more Ukrainian Air Force aircraft on Feb. 25 to a running tally of shoot downs, raising the claimed overall total of aircraft kills to 11 since the invasion began, the state-owned TASS news agency says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
AE Industrial Partners, a U.S. private equity firm active in aerospace and defense, said Feb. 24 that it had struck deal to buy a “significant” stake in embattled rocket startup Firefly Aerospace from investment group Noosphere Venture Partners.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Stratolaunch’s Roc retracted and extended its landing gear for the first time on the 385-ft.-wingspan carrier aircraft’s fourth test flight from Mojave, California, on Feb. 24.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA is aiming to roll out its first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket to Kennedy Space Center’s (KSC) Launch Complex 39B on March 17 for a key tanking test ahead of launch no sooner than late May on the Artemis I mission.
Space