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By Garrett Reim
Interstellar Technologies is teaming with Toyota to use automotive business assets for manufacturing rocket engines and propellant tanks.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The U.S. Space Force and its intel partners are deploying the first satellites meant to perform ground moving target indication, a senior service official says.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has flown the second prototype of its new H140 twin-engine light helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s National Police Air Service (NPAS) has begun testing the Schiebel S-100 rotary-wing uncrewed aircraft system as a potential complement to its crewed helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The Austrian military is looking to scale up its involvement in space projects.
Satellites

By Brian Everstine
Boeing machinists at the company’s defense and space facilities in Missouri and Illinois voted Aug. 3 to strike.
Supply Chain

By Chen Chuanren
China demonstrated the datalink handoff feature of air-to-air missiles between multiple Chengdu J-10C fighters during a recent training exercise.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Pakistan has formally inducted the Chinese-built Changhe Z-10ME attack helicopter, marking the first known export of the type.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
KAI has revealed that a future variant of the KF-21 fighter will feature an internal weapons bay capable of housing a 2,000-lb. guided bomb.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Crew-11's three astronauts and a cosmonaut were welcomed aboard the ISS by the Expedition 73 crew. NASA budget cuts could shorten their planned six-month mission.
Space Exploration

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By Samuel Archer
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VERTEX AEROSPACE gets T-6 services award worth up to $4.3b... SLOVENIA buying more IRIS-T systems... RAYTHEON gets Amraam Lot 39/40 contract...
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By Vivienne Machi
The Senate late July 31 confirmed Adm. Daryl Caudle to be chief of naval operations and Lt. Gen. Sean Bratton as vice chief of space operations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Sean Broderick
The FAA’s stance on mandating ADS-B In has shifted to full-throated support following January’s midair collision between a regional jet and an Army helicopter.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon on July 31 awarded Lockheed Martin a $9.5 billion contract award for the two variants of its AGM-158 long-range missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Christine Boynton
Almost two years before the fatal midair collision near DCA, an internal FAA memo advised air traffic control leadership that DCA’s arrival rate was too high.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s efforts to speed up production of the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider might take a hit under a Senate Appropriations Committee proposal.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Canada’s EarthDaily Analytics has received $60 million in equipment financing to help support its plans to build and launch its 10-satellite Earth observation constellation.
Satellites

By Chen Chuanren
China is developing a new twin-tailed jet trainer.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Irene Klotz
A multinational, four-member crew lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Aug. 1 for a 15-hr. ride to the International Space Station.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
EchoStar says it has selected MDA Space to build its low-Earth-orbit communications satellite constellation in a $1.3 billion deal.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Joby Aviation has partnered with L3Harris to develop a hybrid eVTOL aircraft for defense applications—an optionally piloted, turbine hybrid version of its S4.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
Germany is preparing to deliver two further Patriot air and missile launchers to Ukraine as Western countries look to help Kyiv protect itself.
Missile Defense & Weapons