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By Mark Carreau
Back on Earth from a 170-day mission to the International Space Station, NASA’s Crew-4 quartet of U.S. and European astronauts have some recommendations for developers of the commercial low-Earth-orbit successors to the ISS that is now in its final decade of planned operations.
Space

By Steve Trimble
An acquisition of a small force of Northrop Grumman B-21A Raiders could fill a gap in Australia’s long-range strike capabilities until a new fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines begins arriving in around 2040, an Australian defense analyst said on Oct. 19 in Washington.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Northrop Grumman has announced that the unveiling of the B-21 Raider will take place on Dec. 2 in Palmdale, California.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Warsaw is hiking defense spending to 3% of GDP, prompted largely by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has signed a cooperation agreement with Norway’s Andoya Space to make use of its ranges for live-fire exercises.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The Aerospace Corp. is expanding its footprint at Hill AFB in Layton, Utah, for work on nuclear modernization programs including the Northrop Grumman LGM-35A Sentinel, the intercontinental ballistic missile set to replace the Cold War-era Minuteman III.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The crash comes only a week after Hill AFB confirmed that an F-35A that was damaged in 2016 is now classed as a write-off.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
British intelligence-gathering flights over the Black Sea region were suspended following the incident on Sept. 29, which occurred in international airspace.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
A six-member team—all from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland—will review SpaceX’s unsolicited proposal to send a Dragon capsule to the Hubble Space Telescope to boost its orbit, among possible other services.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Flying car is a frequent misnomer for electric air taxis, but in the case of Alef Aeronautics’ Model A the term is a correct, if inadequate, description given the unconventional approach the startup has taken to designing a vehicle that can take off and land vertically as well as drive on the road.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
New Woodward Chairman and CEO Chip Blankenship is quickly making his mark on the aerospace and defense supplier, announcing a reorganization Oct. 19 that consolidates the company’s business groups and brings fresh leadership inside its aerospace and industrial divisions.
Supply Chain

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Ascent cubesat has completed all its mission objectives about 10 months after its launch.
Space

Stefan Barensky
The first flight of Europe’s new workhorse launch vehicle has slipped again.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Navy’s top officer is joining the call for the Pentagon to buy critical weapons in multiyear blocks as opposed to individual fiscal year allotments, saying the practice would give industry the demand signal and support needed to increase its production rates.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The two companies say they want to integrate and further enhance the Rafael Sky Shield system by combining it with Hensoldt’s domestically developed Kalaetron Attack jammer and then integrate the system on German Eurofighters.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
A report from Myanmar-based newspaper The Irrawady says that a Burmese group of pilots, technicians and weapons officers has traveled to China to begin training on the Guizhou Aviation Industry Corp-built lead-in jet trainer and light combat aircraft.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Mark Carreau
NASA is looking to mid-November for the resumption of planned spacewalks outside the International Space Station (ISS) following the unexpected appearance of moisture on the helmet visor of European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer at the conclusion of a March 23 excursion.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The nonprofit Space Center Houston and NASA’s Johnson Space Center have unveiled a Facilities Master Plan to help hasten a global and commercial rush to take part in the agency’s blueprint to establish a permanent human presence at the Moon in preparation for human expeditions to Mars.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Recovering from its second launch hiatus, OneWeb Satellites is poised to begin adding to its global broadband constellation in low Earth orbit, this time with launch services provided by the commercial arm of the Indian Space Research Organization.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Northrop Grumman has contracted with Mynaric to provide laser communications terminals for 14 satellites as part of the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer program.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Luxembourg could become the second European operating base for Virgin Orbit’s horizontal satellite launch as part of proposals to provide responsive launch services for NATO and European allies.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Satellite launch startup Orbex has secured an extra £40 million ($45.2 million) in funding from investors that will enable the company to scale up its operations to be ready for its first vertical launch from the UK.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
As many as 30 former British military pilots are believed to be providing training to China’s People’s Liberation Army.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The RQ-28A is the Army’s first quadrotor acquired as a program of record in the first tranche of the Short-Range Reconnaissance (SRR) contract.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and EASA signed the memorandum at the European Union–Asia Symposium on UAS and UAM in Singapore.
Advanced Air Mobility