China

Nelson talks with Aviation Week about the role private companies will play and his concerns about China’s ambitions on the Moon.

The Chinese air transport sector has seen its largest-ever volume of passenger movements over the week-long National Day holiday, better known as Golden Week.

Co-production with allies and partners is increasingly intertwined with U.S. efforts to revitalize the defense industrial base.

The MOU was signed during a trip to Taiwan this week by an Oklahoma delegation led by Gov. Kevin Stitt.

The TMS-3 was displayed by Tianmukongka Intelligent Technology Sept. 25 at a trade expo in Hangzhou in Zhejiang province.

Interests for long- and ultra-long-range business jets in north China remains largely stable, despite changing economic sentiments in the country.

The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Sept. 28 unveiled the country’s third-generation spacesuit, which will be used for lunar missions in the 2030s.

Aurora’s Liberty Lifter; stratospheric HAPS; Radian’s subscale spaceplane; and GAC plans winged eVTOL air taxi.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

China’s nascent electric air taxi industry is forging tighter links with the country’s automative manufacturers and its massive electric-vehicle supply chain.

The ministry of defense said the Rocket Force launched an ICBM carrying a dummy warhead on Sept. 25 at 8:44 a.m. Beijing time.

The threats to space systems from directed energy weapons is going to grow, the head of U.S. Space Command warns.

Chinese and Russia anti-satellite capabilities are driving Western militaries to pursue better situational awareness and countermeasures.

The Mineral Security Partnership will provide targeted financial and diplomatic support for strategic projects along the value chain, the U.S. State Department said.

The UK’s military space efforts are not matching the change in the threat and more may need to happen, a Royal Air Force official says.

Zhuhai-based Vertaxi was founded in April 2021 by two members of the team that developed China’s Comac C919 narrowbody airliner.

Chinese space launcher startup Deep Blue Aerospace suffered a landing failure in the latest test of its Nebula-1 when the engine cut off prematurely.

The SATS and China-based Sinotrans Air Freight link-up will potentially see the pair set up gateway hubs for Sinoair in Belgium, Malaysia, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Singapore.

The Taiwanese Defense Ministry says the unit was established Feb. 1, but its existence was not revealed until Sept. 18.

Chinese company Zhongce Beifang Science and Technology is presenting a range of uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) to Indonesia, including its LM-10 loitering munition.

The UK should consider acquiring U.S.-developed hypersonic weapons until it can fully resource nationally developed weapons, a think tank says.

Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.

With radio frequency interference now routine for commercial airlines, more is at stake than redundancy, a cornerstone of aviation safety built over decades.

Naval vessels rescued the pilot after he ejected.

The 18.3-m (60-ft.) vehicle took off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at noon local time Sept. 11.