In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Nov. 14 2022

Credit: Boeing. German aerospace industry leaders have expressed concerns that the country’s defense ministry is not mandating a role for national industry in a series of multi-billion-dollar procurements. 

Credit: Aero Vodochody. Czech aerospace manufacturer Aero Vodochody has received a long-awaited domestic order for its L-39NG jet trainer, signing a contract with LOM Praha for four aircraft. 

Credit: Tony Osborne/Aviation Week. Turkish officials have confirmed plans to upgrade part of the country’s Lockheed Martin F-16 fleet with a domestically developed active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar. 

Credit: Robinson Helicopter Company. Frank Robinson, the man who pioneered the development of the Robinson family of light helicopters for the general aviation market, has died. 

Credit: NASA. SpaceX’s 26th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has been readied to deliver assorted science and technology payloads focused on human deep-space exploration challenges like those envisioned within NASA’s Artemis initiative and potentially other long-term human-space operations.

Credit: China Manned Space Agency. China’s Tianzhou-5 cargo spacecraft has set a new record for the shortest time between launch and space station docking, the Chinese Academy of Space Technology (CAST) says.

Credit: Joel Kowsky/NASA. A cubesat dispatched to scout the orbit where NASA plans to assemble its Gateway lunar outpost reached its destination on Nov. 13 as the agency prepared to start the countdown for the Space Launch System (SLS)-Orion flight test.