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By Brian Everstine
The recent launch of a National Reconnaissance Office payload aboard a Rocket Lab Electron in New Zealand and the upcoming launch of another spy satellite from a Virgin LauncherOne in the UK is the “new norm” for the office as it looks to proliferate its architecture, the NRO’s director says.
Space

Russia’s Roscosmos Corp. will launch Iran’s Khayam Earth remote sensing satellite on Aug. 9 atop a Soyuz 2.1b medium-lift rocket.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S. Navy has officially handed over the first of three modified CN-235-220M maritime patrol aircraft to the Royal Malaysian Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
New contracts would end a long-running dry spell for orders of the six-metric-ton AW159 Wildcat naval helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Blue Canyon Technologies has opened a new cubesat factory in Boulder, Colorado, that will increase its annual production capacity from 50 to 85 satellites.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Xona Space Systems has received an undisclosed investment from Lockheed Martin Ventures to fund development of a private low Earth orbit global navigation satellite system.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
A Canadian agency released a draft copy of a request for proposals on Aug. 2 for a vertical takeoff and landing uncrewed aircraft system (UAS) that
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force will buy SpaceX’s Starlink low Earth orbit satellite internet service to aid airlift operations in Africa and Europe, saying in a justification document that Starlink is the only provider currently able to provide service in Africa and has proven its ability to function in a combat zone.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has fired “multiple” Dongfeng-series ballistic missiles toward Taiwan as part of a three-day exercise intended to impose maximum military pressure on the island following a visit by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
In anticipation of potential surface threats from China, the Japanese government will fast-track the research of an improved Type-12 anti-ship missile using a so-called “agile development” method. The aim is to bring forward serial production from fiscal 2026 to as early as 2023.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
A Rocket Lab Electron booster delivered a classified U.S. and Australian spacecraft into low Earth orbit on Aug. 4, the second of two missions contracted under a National Reconnaissance Office’s Rapid Acquisition of a Small Rocket contract.
Space

Aviation Week Network staff
The airlines most affected by the latest ban are Russia’s two largest private carriers—S7 Airlines and Ural Airlines.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Chen Chuanren
Eighteen designated airways are currently affected by the war games, which have seen multiple ballistic missiles fired across the Taiwan Strait.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Mark Carreau
After months of troubleshooting, NASA and its partners have succeeded in sufficiently unfolding a circular solar array that failed to fully deploy following the Oct. 16, 2021, launch of the Lucy asteroid probe.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA is on track to complete work on its first Space Launch System rocket and roll the vehicle out to Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39B on Aug. 18 ahead of liftoff on the Artemis I flight test.
Space

By Graham Warwick
For now, urban air mobility is focused on small two-four-passenger air taxis. But a UK study suggests that larger, 30-50-seat electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft could be competitive with existing modes of public transportation while reducing emissions and congestion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
UK-based uncrewed aircraft system development house Blue Bear says it has developed a beyond-visual-line-of-sight communication bridge to link with air vehicles too small to carry a BVLOS communication system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
When Gen. James Hecker began his flying career in the U.S. Air Force in the cockpit of an F-15C in the early 1990s, he and his fellow pilots knew exactly what their job would be: Fight the Soviet Union.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force during its last premier Red Flag exercise connected multiple ranges across the American West for the first time under a new agreement with the FAA.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
Beijing said the drills are being conducted in response to Pelosi’s visit and will last until Aug. 7.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Jen DiMascio
The acquisitions mean Slingshot will be able to offer satellite operators a better understanding of the growing number of objects on orbit and other threats.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is updating requirements for future private astronaut missions to the International Space Station based on some lessons learned from the pioneering 17-day Axiom Space-1 mission to the orbital science lab flown in April.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force wants to know what the space domain awareness software tracking capabilities industry can provide as it looks to phase out multiple old systems at many operating locations that serve the SDA mission.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The MQ-9 strike in the heart of Kabul that took out al-Qaida’s senior leader was the culmination of almost a year of “over-the-horizon” U.S. counterterror operations, and a sign of how the U.S. wants to operate its Reaper fleet in the future.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
An L3Harris/AirTractor team has been selected to supply 75 weaponized versions of the AT-802 crop duster to Air Force Special Operations Command after winning the $3 billion contract for the Armed Overwatch program.
Aircraft & Propulsion