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By Tony Osborne
Stockholm declared an initial operational capability (IOC) for the Patriot system in mid-December.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Japan is reportedly in the final stages of negotiations with partners from the United Kingdom to firm up the scope and price for the development of the future F-X fighter’s engine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Archer has flown its Maker technology demonstrator, joining other leaders in the electric vertical takeoff and landing industry in flying a vehicle similar in scale to its planned urban air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Swedish startup Heart Aerospace has flown a subscale model of its ES-19 electric regional airliner.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
The Soyuz MS-20 carrying Yusaku Maezawa, Yozo Hirano and veteran cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin touched down in remote Kazakhstan on Dec. 20, marking the end of a 12-day private spaceflight.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The U.S. Justice Department has unveiled an ongoing antitrust investigation into labor market allocation in the aerospace engineering market, revealing indictments against six executives who are alleged to have established an anti-poaching regime among their companies.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
The six-year-old startup, which said it reached profitability in 2020, is one of many targeting the burgeoning counter-UAS product and services market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Completion of Vertical Aerospace’s going-public merger with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition on Dec. 16 took the total announced funding raised in 2021 by the nascent advanced air mobility industry to more than $5 billion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
The Aerospace Industries Association has announced a new industry standard designed to safeguard drones from leaking sensitive data.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Counter-drone systems specialist Dedrone has landed $30.5 million in Series C venture capital, the company announced Dec. 17, and is working to be able to detect, identify and track more than 200 different UAS.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The Brazilian Air Force will soon put the MBDA Meteor into service after receiving the second batch of the beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Stoke Space, a startup trying to develop a completely reusable rocket for the burgeoning commercial satellite market, has closed a $65 million Series A venture capital round that will go toward developing a rapidly repeatable second-stage segment.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
As the military and burgeoning commercial space sector eye thousands of new satellites in low-Earth orbit companies such as Honeywell International and Skyloom Global are teaming to provide more secure and higher-performance optical-communication products and services.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA has assigned veteran astronaut Stephen Bowen and first-time flyer Warren “Woody” Hoburg to the sixth SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to the International Space Station.
Space

By Brian Everstine
Pandemic-related parts shortages and other supply chain issues have set the U.S. Air Force’s T-7 Red Hawk schedule back about seven months, but Boeing believes it can gain back some of that time as the shortage issues recede and tests continue on built aircraft.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Michael Bruno
Crew Training International, a 30-year-old specialist in providing aviation training services to the military,has been sold to acquisition-based investor Exchange Income Corp. for $45 million.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has called in researchers from the Netherlands Aerospace Center to investigate reports of noise generated by the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, after an uptick in complaints from local residents.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Ministry of Defense has launched a tender for a High-Altitude Pseudo-Satellite to provide continuous communications and intelligence.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Bristow's partnership with California-based Overair covers the potential purchase of 20-50 of the startup’s Butterfly quad-tiltrotor platforms and collaboration on commercialization of the platform.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Thierry Dubois
The first flight of the hypersonic glide vehicle built under the V-Max program will take place soon, an ArianeGroup official says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Virgin Orbit is taking a 17.5% stake in partner Hypersat as the companies work to launch a six-satellite constellation to provide hyperspectral imaging from low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
UK electric air mobility startup Vertical Aerospace has listed publicly on the New York Stock Exchange after completing a merger with blank-check company Broadstone Acquisition that did not perform as well as hoped for.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The first U.S. Air Force F-35 Joint Strike Fighters to be based in Europe have arrived at their future home in England.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Newly infused with public market funding, Rocket Lab said it will buy SolAero Holdings, a supplier of space solar power products and precision aerospace structures, for $80 million in cash as part of the company’s vertical integration transformation to become more of a full-service space services provider.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A cruise missile flight test vehicle struck a target vessel in the Gulf of Mexico after being launched from a pallet out the back of a Lockheed Martin MC-130J.
Missile Defense & Weapons