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By Tony Osborne
The Royal Air Force is set to expand its swarming drone effort with the development of a self-healing communications network that will support the passage of data between the air vehicles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
HeroX and DrivenData have joined with NASA to launch a “NASAAir-athon” crowdsourcing competition to establish a satellite data source to improve and make more publicly accessible urban air quality estimates.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is working with crowdsourcing platform HeroX to award prizes for recycling concepts that could help diminish the trash buildup associated with early-stage human expeditions to Mars.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin says it has completed a series of mission profile tests of the Sikorsky-Boeing SB-1 Defiant rotorcraft demonstrator as the U.S. Army continues evaluating competing bids for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Lockheed Martin has invested in hybrid-electric aircraft developer Electra, leading the startup’s ongoing Series A fund raising.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Airbus has begun partnering with Japanese communication providers to study the feasibility of deploying wireless communication networks on high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) such as the company’s Zephyr.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
AutoFlight Europe has set up shop in Augsburg, Germany, and is being led by Mark Henning, who joined the Chinese group from Airbus Helicopters earlier this month.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with South Korea for the purchase of KM-SAM Block II Cheongung surface-to-air missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
The Philippines has placed an order to acquire 32 more Sikorsky/PZL Mielec S-70i Black Hawks to bolster its rotary wing capabilities, which have come under scrutiny following recent events.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The Houthi are believed to have targeted the UAE previously, but the Jan. 17 attack is understood to be the first to be formally acknowledged by UAE officials.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s new long-term budget plan, expected to be announced in March, will include a large investment in hypersonic test infrastructure to help the services develop the new weapons on an accelerated schedule.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Air Force and UK Ministry of Defense are looking to begin remotely piloted air system operations from Fairford airfield.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
As its name suggests, Lunar Resources, Inc. is all about pioneering off-Earth manufacturing through lunar resource extraction and in-situ utilization.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The Austrian order is the second the Italian OEM has secured in recent months through a new model of government-to-government contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has been awarded contracts worth €260 million to support Hensoldt of Germany’s development of an active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar for Eurofighters operated by Germany and Spain.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
Hours after SpaceX delivered a batch of satellites into polar orbits from Florida—previously an exclusive West Coast route—Virgin Orbit pulled off the reverse feat: deploying its customers’ spacecraft into 45-deg. inclination orbits from the California-launched LauncherOne rocket.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Jan. 13 to deliver 105 satellites into a near-polar Sun-synchronous orbits, successfully completing its third discounted rideshare flight.
Space

By Graham Warwick
LanzaJet has secured financing to complete construction of the world’s first alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant with a $50 million investment from the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has made some progress in addressing its pilot shortage thanks to increased production and retention, but still remains far below its goal.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has corrected a fact sheet after acknowledging that one successful test was double-counted in a tally of midcourse intercept tests of the Boeing Ground Based Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company that helped sweep in the current era of startup space companies quickly going public, shocked investors Jan. 13 with news it will raise as much as $500 million by issuing new debt.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Regent Craft has teamed with Rhode Island-based marine and aerospace composites specialist Moore Brothers to build a quarter-scale technology demonstrator for its seaglider, an electric wing-in-ground-effect vehicle for harbor-to-harbor overwater regional transportation.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The Airbus-sponsored Perlan 2 stratospheric glider will carry a Thales FlytLink satellite communications terminal when it returns to flight, enabling real-time data downloads from altitudes exceeding 90,000 ft.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
The Thai government has approved in-principle funding for the Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) to acquire four new fighter jets in the next fiscal year.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
Hypersonix Launch Systems has signed a collaborative agreement with the University of Sydney to research and manufacture key components of its proposed spaceplane, including its Spartan scramjet propulsion system.
Commercial Space