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By Tony Osborne
The Northern Ireland-based business of Spirit AeroSystems has added research, development and consultancy firm Intrepid Minds Robotics to its team developing the UK’s Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft demonstrator.
Defense

By Michael Bruno
April is a stormy month in the Western world, and in aerospace and defense, it lived up to its reputation with the winds of change blowing through the C-suites of industry.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
German satellite launcher firms Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) and ISAR Aerospace have signed agreements to launch from a new orbital launch site planned for Andoya, Norway.
Commercial Space

Leonardo is taking a 25% stake in German defense electronics company Hensoldt in a €600 million ($725 million) transaction.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
U.S. Marine Corps F-35 Joint Strike Fighters have arrived in the UK ready for their embarkation on the UK’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth for its first operational cruise at the end of May.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo is taking a 25% stake in German defense electronics company Hensoldt in a €600 million ($725 million) transaction.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Officials from Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, have not approached NASA about ending Russia’s long partnership in the International Space Station, NASA Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk says.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department and industry must evolve rapidly to meet the sustainment challenges of a new era of rising tensions between great powers, a former Pacific Fleet commander said April 28.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo is taking a 25% stake in German defense electronics company Hensoldt in a €600 million ($650 million) transaction.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
The core booster for the debut launch of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center on April 27, representing a milestone a decade in the making.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Heidi Shyu, a U.S. Army acquisition bureaucrat during the Obama administration and veteran Raytheon executive, is President Joe Biden’s pick for undersecretary of defense for research and engineering.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Depressed commercial aerospace returns still could not dampen earnings or sentiments at Raytheon Technologies after the company April 27 reported its mildly better-than-expected financial results for the first quarter of 2021.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Eutelsat Communications is buying a quarter stake in recently reborn constellation provider OneWeb for $550 million, the companies announced April 27.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Frank Kendall's confirmation would fill a major vacancy in the Biden administration’s Defense Department with a key player from the Obama Pentagon.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Arianespace is planning on a Vega launch on April 28, five months after mission VV17 failed due to an assembly error.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The U.S. Government Accountability Office expects to rule by Aug. 4 on a pair of protests filed over NASA’s $2.9 billion award to SpaceX for a human lunar lander flight demonstration.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA and Space X have announced that the planned splashdown of four Crew-1 Dragon astronauts returning from the International Space Station will now take place on May 1 rather than April 28.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin and Dynetics filed separate protests on April 26 with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) over NASA’s $2.9 billion award to rival SpaceX for a human lunar landing system demonstration mission.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Keeping the International Space Station’s U.S. segment steadily staffed at five astronauts is continuing to significantly contribute to the research and technology demonstrations underway aboard the orbiting science laboratory, says NASA astronaut Shannon Walker.
Space

By Irene Klotz
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket lifted off from Vandenberg AFB in California on April 26 to put a classified payload into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Keeping the International Space Station’s U.S. segment steadily staffed at five astronauts is continuing to contribute significantly to the research and technology demonstrations underway aboard the orbiting science laboratory.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
How does the F-35 program close a roughly 25% delta between actual and objective sustainment costs within four years, which implies a 7% annual reduction on average each of the next four years?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has completed its Combat Systems Ship’s Qualification Trials (CSSQT), marking the end of the post-delivery test and trials phase, and is the U.S. Navy is now focused on the aircraft carrier moving toward full ship shock trials this summer.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Over the next 12 months, the U.S. Marine Corps intends to develop options for the commandant on whether the reserve forces should operate the MQ-9 or an unmanned logistics long-haul aircraft to better compete with China and Russia in the 2030s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
Arianespace launched the latest batch of 36 OneWeb satellites into low Earth orbit on April 25.
Space