Japan

By Garrett Reim
Japan's SkyDrive has signed a “strategic partnership” with PT Whitesky Aviation of Indonesia as it continues to focus on selling its eVTOLs into Asian markets.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Craig Caffrey
Six U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region have increased their military spending by a combined 18.9% over the last three years.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Garrett Reim
Interstellar Technologies of Japan says it has signed five customers for its first Zero rocket launch, anticipated in 2027.
Commercial Space

By Adrian Schofield
Japan's Skymark reported a significant loss for its June quarter, although the carrier is maintaining its projection of a full-year profit.
Airlines & Lessors

By Chen Chuanren
All Nippon Airways has adopted an AI-based turbulence prediction system developed by Japanese company BlueWX.
Airlines & Lessors

By Graham Warwick
Beta Technologies' engine-first strategy is beginning to pay off.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Ben Goldstein
Joby has formed a new joint venture (JV) partnership with Japan’s ANA Holdings.
Advanced Air Mobility

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 Chen Chuanren
Greater awareness of Scope 3 emissions trading and stronger government support are among the key takeaways from an eight-month pilot program.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
A U.S. court on July 21 denied a motion to dismiss a stockholder suit challenging Archer’s $1.7 billion 2021 merger with Atlas Crest Investments.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Work is progressing on the UK’s big delta-wing fighter demonstrator, designed to derisk development of the trinational Global Combat Air Program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems appears to have adopted a modestly swept, cropped delta wing planform for a combat air demonstrator.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has deployed two of its new Boeing F-15EX Eagle IIs to Kadena Air Base, Japan, as it prepares to stand up a unit of the fighters at the base.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Robert Wall, Joe Anselmo
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Defense ministers from the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) partner nations have reaffirmed ambitions to get the combat aircraft on contract by year-end.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The Japan Air Self-Defense Force is looking to modernize against a wide, growing array of threats, from new ballistic missiles to next-generation fighters.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Four academics have been awarded a prize for proposing the creation of a Panel on Asteroid Orbit Alteration.
Operations & Safety

By Chen Chuanren
Japan’s Board of Audit raised concerns over the low operational reliability of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Kawasaki P-1 maritime patrol aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Japan used the final H-IIA rocket flight to deploy the Global Observing Satellite for Greenhouse gases and Water cycle spacecraft.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
The ispace team investigating why its lunar lander crashed on June 6 says an anomaly in the systems laser range finder is the most likely culprit.
Operations & Safety

Zaynab Zlitni
Tokyo-based real estate company Mitsui Fudosan has announced it will enter the advanced air mobility sector by developing and operating vertiports in Japan.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The industrial joint venture company that will build the tri-national combat aircraft at the heart of the Global Combat Air Program has been christened Edgewing.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Honda has entered the commercial spaceflight arena with the successful demonstration of a reusable launch vehicle.
Commercial Space

By Ben Goldstein
Wisk Aero has secured a series of strategic agreements aimed at preparing the way for autonomous air taxi services in Miami and Japan.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
Japanese space newcomer Interstellar Technologies plans to use the Hokkaido Spaceport for its Zero launchers, signing up to be the first user of the facility.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion