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By Irene Klotz
With its first two satellites set for launch in early 2023, Amazon on Oct. 27 unveiled plans for an additional, 172,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing plant in the Seattle area that will be dedicated to production of Kuiper satellites for an Amazon-owned high-speed broadband network.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon needs to develop and acquire more agile missile tracking sensors and defeat systems, with a specific focus on regional hypersonic threats and protecting the island of Guam, as adversaries—especially China—increase their offensive capabilities, a new policy statement says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Biden administration, in its long-awaited outline of nuclear policy, has detailed its thinking behind canceling the contentious Sea-Launched Cruise Missile-Nuclear and retiring the B83-1 gravity bomb.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick, Chen Chuanren
Another design has been added to the list of large uncrewed cargo aircraft under development in China, with Sichuan Tengden Science & Technology conducting the first flight of its Twin-Tailed Scorpion D on Oct. 25.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
SINGAPORE—Embraer has signed agreements with three South Korean aerospace companies—Aerospace Technology of Global, EM Korea Co. and Kencoa Aerospace
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The acquisition, announced by Leonardo Oct. 27, is part of an ongoing recapitalization of the law enforcement agency’s rotary-wing assets
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Embraer has joined Bombardier in providing its vision of a business jet of the future, with sustainability as a central tenet of their designs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
South Korean advanced air mobility startup MintAir plans to purchase up to 10 zero-emission aircraft from Australia’s Dovetail Electric Aircraft for proposed regional cargo services.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
After the company's latest results were released, Boeing’s stock price dropped around 9% for the day, bringing its year-to-date total falloff to 36%.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department on Oct. 26 completed the first of two planned sounding rocket launches to test new technologies at hypersonic speed from NASA’s space launch facility in Wallops, Virginia.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
A South Africa-based test pilot school at the center of a growing international controversy over the recruitment of former Western military pilots to train Chinese personnel has denied wrongdoing.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Graham Warwick
Saudi Arabian flag carrier Saudia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lilium for the proposed development and operation of an electric vertical takeoff and landing network.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA and partner crowdsourcing platform HeroX are looking for help solving human spacecraft life support challenges.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The Progress 82 resupply mission is on course to dock with the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Oct. 27.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has four Poseidon on order, the first of which is expected to arrive in country in December.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Kongsberg NanoAvionics plans to make a “multimillion” euro investment to increase its manufacturing capacity to produce several hundred small satellites annually.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA is now spending more money with SpaceX than Boeing, Lockheed or any other single contractor aside from the California Institute of Technology, which operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Monte Aircraft Leasing has placed a firm order with hybrid-electric propulsion startup Ampaire for 25 Eco Caravans with an option for an additional 25 of the converted Cessna Grand Caravans.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has taken delivery of its first remanufactured AH-64E Apache.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Redwire’s upgraded Biofabication Facility is set for a Nov. 6 launch to the International Space Station, intended to advance efforts to culture human tissues and organs in microgravity for surgical transplant on Earth.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Ben Wallace has again held on to his role as UK defense secretary in the government being established by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin is pitching a three-phase adoption of datalinks, processing and enhanced situational awareness for its LMXT tanker, as the U.S. Air Force works through its requirements and decides whether to continue with a competition for the KC-Y “bridge tanker.”
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng has unveiled a revised design for its planned fly/drive electric vertical takeoff and landing “flying car.”
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has completed the first flight of an upgraded version of the L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft, boosting its capab
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Brian Everstine
Ash Carter, an academic and physicist turned Pentagon leader who served as President Barack Obama’s last secretary of defense from 2015-2017, died Oct. 24 at the age of 68.
Budget, Policy & Operations