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By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Tracer twin-satellite mission launched successfully with a handful of other small spacecraft payloads on July 23.
Satellites

By Tony Osborne
A Turkish uncrewed aircraft system developer has secured orders from the country’s military for a rotary-wing logistics platform.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The Missile Defense Agency is conducting market research for new systems to launch current and future interceptors for the Golden Dome missile defense project.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Matthew Fulco
Space startup iRocket will go public via a $400 million merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) backed by former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Turkish missile manufacturer Roketsan has lifted the lid on an internally developed ramjet-powered, beyond-visual-range, air-to-air missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Robinson Helicopter plans to offer an electric-powered R66 helicopter first to the pilot training market.
Maintenance & Training

By Garrett Reim
Dealing with defunct satellites can cost constellation operators serious money, especially if a broken satellite starts getting in the way of other spacecraft in its orbital shell.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The shift by the U.S. Air Force to laser-guided weapons to down relatively cheap drones was enabled by a quick-turn software update to Litening targeting pods.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
The Indian Army has taken delivery of its first three Boeing AH-64E Apache attack helicopters following a 15-month delay in the original delivery schedule.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Boeing F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program has been set up in a way that U.S. Air Force Gen. David Allvin wishes he could have a time machine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble, Ben Goldstein
MagniX will start experimenting with electric propulsion for turbine-powered rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Dassault Aviation is pushing for its proposed Vortex reusable spaceplane to become a European Space Agency program.
Space Exploration

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Iran has conducted a suborbital Qased launch in what may have been intended as a show of capability after the country’s 12-day conflict with Israel.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
JetZero has selected Maryland-based ST Engineering MRAS to design and manufacture the exhaust nozzle for its full-scale blended wing body demonstrator.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Robert Wall
Thales CEO Patrice Caine says the outcome of talks with Leonardo and Airbus to merge some satellite operations is uncertain.
Satellites

By Thierry Dubois
Belgium has no solid basis to become a full partner in the Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program, Dassault Aviation Chairman and CEO Éric Trappier says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne, Robert Wall
Turkey has signed an MOU with the UK that could lead to a Eurofighter Typhoon purchase.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Vivienne Machi
The new leader of the Golden Dome for America initiative has two months to deliver a baseline architecture outlining the future missile defense capability.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Christine Boynton
A planned B-52 bomber flyover that caused a SkyWest Airlines regional jet to perform a go-around near Minot, North Dakota, was operating with FAA approval.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Steve Trimble, Ben Goldstein
Jaunt Air Mobility revealed plans to introduce a medium-sized cargo drone for the middle-mile logistics market in 2 1/2 years.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Matthew Fulco
Despite the Trump administration's tariffs, RTX posted better-than-expected sales and net income in the second quarter.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Robert Wall
The defense giant took charges on aeronautics and helicopter programs in its second-quarter earnings report, with the culprits including some repeat offenders.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall
Northrop Grumman is in talks with the Pentagon about potentially accelerating the production ramp-up of the B-21 bomber and speeding the Sentinel ICBM effort.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Ann Shay
The Brazilian OEM details its biggest quarterly backlog and second-quarter aircraft deliveries.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Denmark says it has agreed to buy four General Atomics MQ-9B SkyGuardian uncrewed aircraft systems.
Aircraft & Propulsion