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By Chen Chuanren
The first Airbus A330 multirole tanker transport upgraded with an automatic refueling system will be delivered to the Republic of Singapore Air Force by year’s end, becoming the first air arm to possess such technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
After nearly two years in the orbit of Mars, China’s Tianwen-1 has completed imagery mapping of the red planet.
Space

By Graham Warwick
NASA has launched its hunt for a large-scale experimental aircraft to demonstrate the airframe configuration and technologies for a sustainable single-aisle-class airliner that could enter service by the mid-2030s.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
Saab plans to deliver two of the Bombardier Global 6000-derived surveillance systems in 2027 to to the Swedish Defense Materiel Administration, the company says.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Tracy Caldwell Dyson is likely to be the third U.S. astronaut to fly aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station under a new crew seat exchange agreement to be signed by NASA and Roscosmos.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The House Appropriations Committee has advanced a $25.45 billion 2023 NASA budget proposal to the full House, which if enacted by the House and Senate would amount to a $1.4 billion increase over 2022, but less than the $25.97 billion requested by President Biden in March.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Researchers with the Netherlands’ Delft University of Technology have designed a three-member family of Flying-V aircraft to demonstrate that the next-generation concept scales.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. is deploying two more F-35A squadrons to Europe and stationing F-15s in Poland as part of a surge in the region in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden announced during a June 29 NATO summit.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
A senior Biden administration official has endorsed Turkey’s plans to modernize its large fleet of Lockheed Martin F-16s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
A U.S. Space Force mission scheduled to launch June 30 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket will kick start a three-year experiment to test a missile warning and tracking satellite prototype.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army has identified a future ramjet-rocket version of the Precision Strike Missile as the long-term solution for the Mid-Range Capability system in the long-range precision fires arsenal.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The Canadian government has launched the definition phase of a project to field a mobile Ground-Based Air Defense system later in the decade.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
Contractors are continuing to lay groundwork for their bids for the next U.S. national missile defense program, the Next Generation Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
With its new Vulcan rocket on track to debut late this year or in early 2023, United Launch Alliance (ULA) is aiming to end Atlas V launch services in late 2025, ULA clarified following a June 28 press conference where the company erroneously said Atlas V would be retired in late 2024.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army on June 28 awarded contracts to Raytheon Technologies and Palantir to create a prototype for its Tactical Intelligence Targeting Access Node.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Space Force should avoid duplicating the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance resources of the National Reconnaissance Office for tactical needs, the newly confirmed head of space acquisitions says.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Virgin Orbit is targeting September for the first of two launches this year from the UK’s new spaceport in Cornwall, a mission that will mark the first rocket launch from British soil and the first commercial launch from Western Europe.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Turkish President Recep Erdogan on June 28 reversed his opposition to NATO membership for Finland and Sweden, allowing the Scandinavian countries a clear path to joining the transatlantic alliance at a moment of heightened security concerns over Russia’s four-month-old war with Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
When the Air Force Research Laboratory sent its Tactical High Power Microwave Operational Responder system downrange for an overseas assessment, the lab’s engineers back home did not want to sit still and wait for the system to come home, so they got to work on upgrades.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to modify its Boeing KC-135s and KC-46s in a new effort that the service says is independent of the KC-Y “bridge tanker” program it started last year, but now says is looking less likely to become a competition.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
Korea Aerospace Industries has completed a range of ground tests for its KF-21 Boramae fighter aircraft, paving the way for its first flight in July.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Northrop Grumman’s 17th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission to the International Space Station departed early June 28, ending a four-month stay that included a successful demonstration of the commercial freighter’s ability to reboost the outpost.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s lunar Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment small satellite successfully launched from Mahia, New Zealand, early June 28 U.S. time.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army on June 27 awarded Sikorsky a $2.28 billion contract for 120 H-60M Black Hawks, the 10th and final multiyear contract for the helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
A five-year joint effort by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Office of Naval Research to create the next generation of a high-powered microwave weapon is culminating in a major test this summer.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare