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By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace Industries’ Aksungur twin-engine, medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system has entered service with the Turkish navy, the first customer for the platform.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The first electric racing aircraft built for the new Air Race E series is being readied for flight.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Europe’s Maritime Safety Agency has contracted for the use of a Tekever remotely piloted air system (RPAS) and its new capability to drop a life raft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Scotland is hoping that its space industry can contribute more than £4 billion ($5.53 billion) to its economy by 2030.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Attempts to fully unfurl and latch a solar array on NASA’s recently launched Lucy asteroid probe will resume no earlier than the end of next week, NASA said on Oct. 19.
Space

By Kim Minseok
Korea Aerospace Industries is working to improve the low observable capability of its new KF-21 fighter, although the plan has yet to be approved by the Ministry of National Defense and defense procurement agency DAPA.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) is putting its new Boeing CH-47F Chinooks through their paces, validating capabilities at the annual Exercise Wallaby in Australia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. has successfully tested what it is calling the world’s most powerful integral solid-rocket booster.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Rocket Lab will attempt a controlled ocean splashdown and recovery of the Electron small satellite launcher earmarked for flight next month, the company said on Oct. 19.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Boeing is nearing the end of a winding technical analysis of a valve problem that scotched plans for an uncrewed orbital flight test of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft in August.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The European Space Agency and UK air navigation service provider NATS are exploring whether 5G cellular communications technology could help to provide a resilient positioning capability for uncrewed air systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Aerospace supplier Meggitt says it still expects its acquisition by Parker Hannifin to proceed, despite an intervention by the UK government over national security concerns.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA has named an astronaut flight training hangar in honor of the late John Young, who launched on six space missions and served as commander of the Apollo 16 Moon landing and the first space shuttle mission.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department has announced plans to apply modular open systems approach standards on an emerging class of directed energy weapon systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
European engineering services company Akka Technologies has unveiled its concept for a zero-emission regional aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force plans to look into how much work it will take to convert Australia’s E-7A Airborne Early Warning and Control aircraft into a U.S. Defense Department-compliant platform.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military’s logistics infrastructure is vulnerable to both physical and cyber attacks and Capitol Hill needs to help the Pentagon defend its weak points, the U.S. Air Force’s top civilian said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Kim Minseok
The propeller-driven trainer and light-attack aircraft is designed to replace South Korea's KT-1.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Forestry Service has retired its Bell AH-1 Cobra helicopters used for the aerial supervision of firefighting operations.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Backed by Chinese electric car maker XPeng, startup HT Aero has reached agreement to raise more than $500 million to develop an integrated flying and driving vehicle.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Three industry teams have been selected to compete for the next signals intelligence sensor being developed for the U.S. Air Force’s high-altitude aircraft fleet.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
GKN Aerospace has opened its new Global Technology Center (GTC), which will prepare the technologies to help the company build components for the next generation of fuel-efficient aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Two different approaches to reaching 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) use in aircraft have been tested in flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok, Chen Chuanren
South Korea’s DAPA defense acquisition agency has confirmed that its airborne early warning program, known as E-X Batch 2, has grown from two to four aircraft, but the agency is “struggling” in its negotiations with Boeing over its proposal due to its unexpectedly high cost.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected the small Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) from 18 space telescope proposals for further development and launch in 2025 to investigate the origin of chemical elements in the Milky Way.
Space