Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Navy believes it could align its requirements for an uncrewed collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) with those of the Air Force, potentially paving the way for a joint program.

The Royal Thai Air Force (RTAF) has taken delivery of its first pair of Textron T-6TH Texan II trainers, with a landing at the RTAF Kamphaeng Saen flight training school.

Finland’s Border Guard has shortlisted nine suppliers who could provide the service with modified business jets equipped for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions

The French Air Force wants to build an initial SEAD/DEAD capability on Rafale by 2030 through the F4 capability upgrade.

Cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin carried out the first of three planned spacewalks Nov. 17 to continue upgrades to the International Space Station’s Russian Nauka multipurpose laboratory module,.

Gravitics has raised $20 million in a seed round to build large space station modules.

The Space Launch System (SLS) met all performance expectations during its debut flight, which sent an uncrewed Orion capsule on its way to a distant lunar orbit.

Five aircraft carriers from allied countries and their strike groups plan to operate together this month under the NATO flag.

Start-up hypersonic aircraft developer Hermeus has demonstrated mode transition of the company’s in-house designed Chimera turbine-based combined-cycle engine.

Boeing’s Defense, Space and Security (BDS) division announced an organizational streamlining on Nov. 17 as the $26.5 billion business unit seeks a

For now, the UK will spend “at least 2%” of gross domestic product on defense, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt confirmed.

Ukraine Foreign Minster Dmytro Kuleba on Nov. 17 revived calls for the U.S. government to provide Patriot air defense systems.

Russian officials hailed the delivery as a sign that the indigenous supply chain can continue to meet delivery milestones, despite Western sanctions.

The new 16U satellite bus is tailored for Earth observation and space domain awareness missions.

Referred to simply as Wingman, the air system is proposed as an accompaniment to the FCAS New Generation Fighter.

Russia plans to more than double its government-owned constellation of Earth-observation satellites in 2023-25.

Turboprop light attack aircraft could be a partial alternative answer to Ukraine’s air-defense needs as the country battles a growing threat of low-cost Iranian-made loitering munitions.

Representatives of almost 50 nations have pledged to continue helping Ukraine strengthen its air- and defense-missile systems during a Pentagon-led meeting.

Germany is planning a stepped approach to the development of an electronic attack variant of the Eurofighter.

U.S. Air Force plans include keeping Boeing F-15Es with higher-thrust engines for the long-term, leaving the majority of the fleet vulnerable to retirement.

The National Reconnaissance Office has opened a new call to industry for hyperspectral imagery, looking to see what technologies it can use for intelligence.

The Pentagon has failed its fifth straight audit and though the department has made movement toward cleaning up its books, the top official in charge of the effort says there should have been more progress.

SpaceX’s Starship Human Landing System is to support the second and first NASA Artemis-era missions to return astronauts to the surface of the Moon under a $1.15 billion contract modification.

Japan is mulling a low-Earth-orbit (LEO) constellation of satellites to help it track modern hypersonic ballistic missiles, Japan’s Asahi Shimbun has reported.

The approvals help pave the way for the first planned orbital launch from the UK mainland for Virgin Orbit’s “Start Me Up” mission using its air-launched LauncherOne space vehicle that will be carried by its modified Boeing 747.