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By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Space Force’s plan to replace its Space Based Infrared System of satellites took another step forward as prime contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman selected payload providers for their next-generation satellites on March 1.
Space

By Thierry Dubois
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is forcing the French ministry of armed forces to rethink some plans, from a satellite launch to the use of large military transports.
Space

By Guy Norris
Long-running U.S. interest in the potential application of pressure-gain combustion to high-speed propulsion is stepping up to a new level with the award of a U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory contract to Pratt & Whitney for a rotating-detonating engine demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall is confident one of his key priorities—the development of a UAS that will fly along with an advanced fighter—is realistic in the near term based on multiple efforts in the U.S. and Australia.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military on March 1 established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense aimed at avoiding incidents in the airspace over Eastern Europe amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Irene Klotz
Russia will stop supplying RD-181 engines, which are used on Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, to the U.S. in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed in response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A solicitation for a $334 million hypersonic demonstrator missile is now in industry hands, with responses due to the Air Force Research Laboratory in May and contract award in December.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The first U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider test aircraft has started ground evaluations, and the sixth example of the next-generation bomber has started production, the service announced March 3.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to make it easier to export some of its highest-end air-to-air weapons to ensure close partner nations can have the most advanced missiles so that their F-35s, for example, can be effective.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup CoFlow Jet has struck an agreement with NASA to commercialize deflected-slipstream technology that would enable an electric vertical/short takeoff and landing (eV/STOL) aircraft to transition to efficient cruise without requiring tilting mechanisms or separate lift rotors.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Aerojet Rocketdyne CEO Eileen Drake has recruited several more industry and military luminaries in an effort to present a full board of directors who would push off Executive Chairman Warren Lichtenstein and his dissident slate of financial sponsors ahead of the embattled propulsion provider’s annual shareholder meeting.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA is partnering with HeroX crowdsources to seek proposals for implementing various aspects of the overall challenge of recycling and disposing of waste during deep-space missions.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Irene Klotz
OneWeb board members voted on March 3 to suspend launches of its broadband satellite constellation from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Space

By Tony Osborne
UK startup Stratospheric Platforms has demonstrated the ability to transmit 5G cell phone signals from a high altitude.
Connected Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
Aircraft Industries, the Czech manufacturer of the Let family of turboprop transport aircraft, says in an open letter that its ownership by Russian holding group Ural Mining Metallurgical Company (UGMK) “is likely to change a lot for us as a company, but we ourselves do not know what the consequences will be.”
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
The designer of what is now Leonardo’s AW09 helicopter is planning to unveil a new concept for a single-engine rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Boeing has confirmed that recent composite cryogenic tank tests that pave the way for future liquid-hydrogen-fueled aircraft used a reusable tank shell originally built as flight hardware for DARPA’s former Experimental Spaceplane Program.
Emerging Technologies

By Tony Osborne
Seven Romanian military personnel were killed during a search-and-rescue mission that was looking for the pilot of a MiG-21 fighter that had crashed.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
In November 2018, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology flew an aircraft on a propulsion system with no moving parts.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
GKN Aerospace has tested an advanced turbine rear structure (TRS) design which demonstrated a potential weight reduction of up to 14% compared to current commercial engine configurations.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Airbus Ventures, L3Harris Technologies and Heico have joined a group of venture capitalists to invest $60 million in CesiumAstro, a four-year-old active-phased-array startup, the companies announced March 2.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
South Korean startup Plana has unveiled plans to develop a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi with the range to enable intercity flights and service entry planned for 2028.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Sean Broderick, Guy Norris
Beyond removing passenger and routine air cargo links between Russia and the U.S., the ban will have aerospace supply-chain implications.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
Days after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his nuclear forces to be on a special alert, the Pentagon announced it has postponed a test of the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile from this coming weekend to try to lower tensions.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has secured a long-awaited contract to develop and upgrade French and Spanish Tiger attack helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion