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By Tony Osborne
Croatia has taken delivery of the first two of four planned Sikorsky UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters, as the country’s armed forces push to reduce their reliance on Russian defense equipment.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus and Kongsberg of Norway have teamed up in a bid to improve the availability of the country’s troubled NH90 fleet.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
The startup, which is planning to perform its first launch from Space Hub Sutherland on the Scottish mainland later this year, is the first UK-based launch provider to disclose that it has applied for such a license.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Italy appears to be moving toward the creation of a joint Air Force and Navy unit to fly the short take-off and vertical landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Germany has marked the completion of the first of six new Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules that will operate as part of a joint squadron with France.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Iceye, a Finnish Earth observation services provider with a blossoming constellation of synthetic aperture radar satellites, has landed a Series D round of venture capital worth at least $136 million, the company said Feb. 3.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
GE Aviation has teamed with Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to modify a Saab 340B into a flying hybrid electric testbed for the recently awarded NASA Electrified Powertrain Flight Demonstration project.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to bring charges against a key figure in the trade secrets lawsuit launched by Boeing-backed Wisk against rival electric air taxi developer Archer Aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
An internal dispute at the highest ranks of Aerojet Rocketdyne has broken into the public eye in the wake of Biden administration opposition to its takeover by Lockheed Martin.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon is planning a new National Defense Science and Technology strategy, informed by the department’s upcoming National Defense Strategy, to guide how it will more quickly and effectively develop new systems for the military.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on Feb. 2 confirmed the U.S. and NATO are offering Russia access to missile defense sites in Europe, along with more transparency about exercises and bomber flights to the region, in an effort to de-escalate tensions with Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Istanbul’s Bogazici University has inaugurated what is claimed to be Turkey’s, and Europe’s, first carbon-negative biorefinery, designed to produce a range of algae-based biotech products including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The International Space Station (ISS) partnership gave its formal blessing for the four-member Axiom-1 (Ax-1) crew to visit the orbital outpost, with launch aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule now slated for March 30, a day earlier than previously planned.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA is retargeting the rollout of its first Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule for a tanking test at Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B to mid-March, a month later than planned.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Northrop Grumman has delivered the first production version of the MQ-4C Triton to the U.S. Navy that comes equipped with low- and high-band signals intelligence payloads.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Spain has introduced the first of 17 remanufactured F-model Boeing CH-47 Chinook tandem-rotor, heavy-lift helicopters into service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Iraq plans to purchase an undisclosed number of JF-17 Thunder fighters, adding to the growing export tally for the Sino-Pakistan combat aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
A month after announcing the Biden administration’s support to extend International Space Station operations from 2024 to 2030, NASA has provided a congressionally required update of its transition strategy.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s Glavkosmos, the commercial arm of space agency Roscosmos, signed an agreement with Bangladesh Satellite Co. Ltd. on Feb. 2 to build and launch Bangladesh’s first Earth observation system.
Space

By Guy Norris
Bell Textron has successfully demonstrated operation of its Autonomous Pod Transport (APT) 70 unmanned cargo aircraft with a ground-based detect and avoid system as part of broader infrastructure development efforts for advanced air mobility.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Thierry Dubois
Daher, a tier-one supplier of major composites and metallic subassemblies, has entered final negotiations with Triumph for the acquisition of a metal aerostructures factory in Stuart, Florida.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Funds will be used to accelerate the first phase of the ADRAS-J active debris removal project with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Advanced air mobility is not only producing unconventional aircraft, but also nontraditional customers.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
Isotropic Systems simultaneously connected a multilink satellite terminal to satellites in medium Earth orbit (MEO) and geostationary orbit during trials at the U.S. Army Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The National Reconnaissance Office and SpaceX on Feb. 2 plan to launch the first Falcon 9 carrying an NRO payload procured under the National Security Space Launch program, and the first time a booster will be reused for another NRO mission.
Advanced Air Mobility