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By Steve Trimble
A new Air Force Research Laboratory organization will attempt to harness internal expertise to speed up development of artificial intelligence-piloted combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A Swiss campaign group established to derail the country’s procurement of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter by referendum has halted its work.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Australia is to receive an additional 12 Sikorsky MH-60R maritime helicopters by mid-2026.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Saab has secured a support contract from South Africa for service repairs and maintenance for the country’s Gripen C/D combat aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The upgrade will allow the AGS aircraft to detect and track vessels moving on the water's surface and identify noncooperative targets.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
As the traditional summer travel season in the Northern Hemisphere came to a close in early September, analysts who cover aerospace and defense were paying more attention to rising energy costs, especially in Europe.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Brian Everstine
The integration enabled the Ukrainian Air Force to take offline Russian air defenses in a surprisingly short timeline.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Using a cadre of advanced technologies, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission is closing in on executing the world’s first-ever attempt at demonstrating whether a spacecraft can slam into an asteroid with enough force to prevent it from destructively colliding with the Earth given adequate warning.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Brian Binnie, who clinched the $10 million Ansari XPrize for the Paul Allen-Scaled Composites team that built the SpaceShipOne reusable suborbital spacecraft, has died, his family announced on Sept. 18.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA launch controllers will implement new procedures as they head into a Sept. 21 launch demonstration test of the repairs to a hydrogen propellant leak that prompted a delay in a second attempt to launch the uncrewed Artemis I test flight of the Space Launch System rocket and Orion crew capsule.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
France is studying basing options in the Indo-Pacific for its air force assets in anticipation of exercises in 2024.
Budget, Policy & Operations

Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who holds the record for the longest single mission in space at 437 days, died on Sept. 7, Roscosmos Corp. reports.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Astroport Space Technologies is developing a system of baking Moon dust into bricks to create a landing pad on the lunar surface.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
In a little more than a year, a moratorium on new safety regulations to protect people onboard space vehicles is set to expire,
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has formally requested proposals from the space industry for long-running, evolvable Human Landing Systems able to support a steady cadence of Artemis-era astronaut missions to the lunar surface.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Swiss officials have signed a letter of offer and acceptance giving the green light to the country’s procurement of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The government of Turkey has signed an agreement with Houston-based Axiom Space to fly its first astronaut to the International Space Station.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Hungary is restarting its human space program, with eight finalists undergoing evaluation for a planned flight to the International Space Station.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
The spacecraft, a reusable upper stage that would replace the payload fairing of an Ariane 64, SUSIE is an attempt by European industry to respond to a variety of competitors.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Although Russia remains a key and committed partner in the International Space Station program, the country is absent from the International Astronautical Congress.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The test, slated for Sept. 21, will determine if technicians at Kennedy Space Center have successfully repaired a hydrogen leak that scuttled the last launch try.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Bell has selected Sierra Nevada Corp. to design and develop the mission systems for the High-Speed Vertical Takeoff and Landing design that is being offered to U.S. Special Operations Command.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
SpaceWERX awarded startup ThinkOrbital a Small Business Technology Transfer contract to study how the company’s autonomous robotic arm assembly and electron beam welding system might be used for in-space service assembly and manufacturing.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The Royal Canadian Air Force is moving ahead on operational plans for its future Remotely Piloted Air Systems program, though it has work to do to determine how to analyze the data the future aircraft will collect.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Forces Central Command is standing up a new unit and designating funding to find new, cheaper ways to incorporate small drones for broad air surveillance, following a model that the U.S. Navy is using for maritime surveillance.
Budget, Policy & Operations