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By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon has failed its fifth straight audit and though the department has made movement toward cleaning up its books, the top official in charge of the effort says there should have been more progress.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System is to support the second and first NASA Artemis-era missions to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon under a $1.15 billion contract modification.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Japan is mulling a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellation of satellites to help it track modern hypersonic ballistic missiles, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun has reported.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The statement is the first official acknowledgment that the strike near the Polish village of Przewodow on Nov. 15 was not an errant or intentional attack by Russia.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Boeing has demonstrated autonomous anti-jamming capabilities with the U.S. Space Force’s Protected Tactical Satcom Prototype.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Negotiations are underway with consortia and companies bidding to participate in South Korea’s K-UAM Grand Challenge program, which is intended to evaluate the safety and capability of urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
NASA managers clear the Artemis I launch team at the Kennedy Space Center to begin fueling the Space Launch System rocket for a long-delayed debut flight to put an uncrewed Orion spacecraft into a distant lunar orbit.
Space

By Steve Trimble, Brian Everstine, Tony Osborne
Explosions on Polish territory near the Ukrainian border on Nov. 15 triggered an emergency meeting of Poland’s security cabinet amidst disputed claims of errant or intentional Russian missile strikes on the NATO member.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Angus Batey
The UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute has launched a new initiative, the ATI Hub, in an effort to “help develop and convene the sustainable aerospace ecosystem,” according to the organization’s CEO.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Garrett Reim
AST SpaceMobile has deployed what it says is the “largest-ever” commercial communications array in low-Earth orbit.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Archer's new facility will be capable of producing up to 650 of its four-passenger Midnight aircraft per year.
Advanced Air Mobility

News in brief.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Members of German aerospace trade body BDLI say Berlin should call for a role for German industry in its acquisitions of Boeing CH-47 Chinook heavy-lift helicopters and Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
Czech aerospace manufacturer Aero Vodochody has received a long-awaited domestic order for its L-39NG jet trainer, signing a contract for four aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkish officials have confirmed plans to upgrade part of the country’s Lockheed Martin F-16 fleet with a domestically developed active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station has been readied to deliver assorted science and technology payloads focused on human deep-space exploration challenges.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
There was approximately 2 hr. 7 min. between launch of the Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft and it docking with the Tiangong space station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA managers have cleared the Kennedy Space Center launch team to start the two-day countdown for launch, but two technical issues that surfaced during post-hurricane inspections and tests still need to be resolved.
Space

Selected U.S. military contracts for Nov. 7 U.S. DEFENSE LOGISTICS AGENCY Optex Systems Inc.,* doing business as Applied Optics Center, Dallas, Texas
Defense

SPACE FLIGHT LABORATORY supports HAWKEYE 360 constellation... REACTION ENGINES forms U.S. board of advisors... LEIDOS hands USAF next-gen weapon R&D contract...
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Space Force landed the Boeing-built X-37B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Nov. 12, completing a 908-day mission that set a new record for endurance.
Space

By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL—Post-hurricane inspections and analysis of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule, which rode out a Category 1 storm at the launchpad, show no impediments toward picking up the two-day countdown for launch as planned on Nov. 14, NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free said on Nov. 11.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Bosco da Costa Junior, the chief commercial officer of Embraer Defense & Security, will succeed Jackson Schneider as president and CEO of the unit, the company announced Nov. 11.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Communications breakdowns between the operational community, the acquisition community and Boeing’s engineering teams are the focus of Rand's new study.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Angus Batey
Another step toward operating a commercial urban air mobility service in Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympics has been taken with the opening of a vertiport terminal within the Advanced Air Mobility Sandbox test environment at the Pontoise Aerodrome here.
Advanced Air Mobility