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By Steve Trimble
Kratos briefings since 2018 have included references to a secret internal program named Thanatos, but the company had never before shown the concept.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Ben Goldstein
Joby Aviation reported continued progress on the path to type certification for its S4 electric air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The Advanced Electronic Warfare program seeks to replace the original L3Harris ALQ-214 self-defense jammer and the Raytheon ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receiver.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The Senate on Nov. 2 confirmed new uniformed leaders for the U.S. Air Force and Navy and the No. 2 officer in the U.S. Marine Corps by individual votes.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Kuva Space of Finland has raised €16.6 million ($17.6 million) in funding to start building and launching a hyperspectral cubesat constellation.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Highly anticipated data from the Nov. 1, 12:54 p.m. EDT flyby will take up to a week to reach the Earth over NASA's Deep Space Network.
Space

By Steve Trimble
An internal investigation team will be formed to analyze the cause of the anomaly during a test launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters is planning to further grow the capacity of the skidded-landing gear variant of its AW169 twin-engine intermediate-medium rotorcraft .
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
An investigation by RAF chiefs conducted in 2022 and finally made public states that the squadron itself was not a safe environment for female personnel.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
With this fresh funding round, Skyroot has raised a total of $95 million, top among Indian space startups.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Ovzon of Sweden plans to launch its Ovzon 3 geostationary communications satellite, which has an antenna that can generate steerable spot beams, as soon as December 2023.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
The agreement signed in October will support the development of future upgrades for the Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
The divestiture follows a tumultuous year for SatixFy, in which the Israeli startup has seen five CEOs following the death of its co-founder in April 2022.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Epirus' Leonidas Indirect Fire Protection Capability High-Power Microwave is part of a series of new acquisition programs under RCCTO focusing on small UAS.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Dómhnal Slattery has a new job as chairman of a startup looking to commercialize a centrifuge-based mass accelerator for space access called SpinLaunch.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Sierra Space is poised to deliver the first Dream Chaser spaceplane from its site near Denver to NASA’s Neil A. Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
HeliJet has placed an order for up to eight Alia electric- vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicles from Beta Technologies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, as part of its congressionally mandated task to identify UAP, stood up a new reporting method on Oct. 31.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
An upcoming resupply mission to the International Space Station will include payload for an effort to bioprint heart tissue.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Space Force has assigned 21 launches for fiscal 2024 under the National Security Space Launch Phase 2 launch service procurement contract.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Shield AI, the startup behind the Hivemind pilot program that features AI software, said on Oct. 31 it raised $200 million in Series F funding.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The British Antarctic Survey is to test the Windracers Ultra UAS in the Antarctic summer to explore if autonomous systems can be used to collect science data.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Lilium has named business aircraft brokerage ArcosJet DMCC as its exclusive authorized dealer for private aircraft sales in Cyprus, Israel and the UAE.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Sidus Space continues to shuffle its management with the departure of its chief technology officer, Jamie Adams, who was also a director on its board.
Commercial Space

By Matthew Fulco
Leidos’s revenue rose 9% year-on-year in the third quarter to $3.9 billion on strong demand for its weapons systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons