Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Michael Bruno
When Boeing released its third-quarter 2022 financial results Oct. 26 before regular trading began on the U.S. stock markets, financial analysts did not know how investors would take the news.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A South Africa-based test pilot school at the center of a growing international controversy over the recruitment of former Western military pilots to train Chinese personnel has denied wrongdoing.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Steve Trimble
A chronic shortage of parts and labor drove Boeing executives on Oct. 26 to report $2.76 billion in new reach-forward losses in the third quarter across five fixed-price development programs in the Defense, Space and Security division.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Saudi Arabian flag carrier Saudia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Lilium for the proposed development and operation of an electric vertical takeoff and landing network.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA and partner crowdsourcing platform HeroX are looking for help solving human spacecraft life support challenges.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
It is the world’s first large-scale four-engined uncrewed air system (UAS), says manufacturer Tengden.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The Progress 82 resupply mission is on course to dock with the Russian segment of the International Space Station on Oct. 27.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The Royal New Zealand Air Force has four Poseidon on order, the first of which is expected to arrive in country in December.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Kongsberg NanoAvionics plans to make a “multimillion” euro investment to increase its manufacturing capacity to produce several hundred small satellites annually.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA is now spending more money with SpaceX than Boeing, Lockheed or any other single contractor aside from the California Institute of Technology, which operates the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Commercial Space

By Bill Carey
Airports and fixed-base operators that plan to service electric air vehicles should have plans in place at least a year ahead of their arrival, says the developer of the Alia-250 electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Monte Aircraft Leasing has placed a firm order with hybrid-electric propulsion startup Ampaire for 25 Eco Caravans with an option for an additional 25 of the converted Cessna Grand Caravans.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has taken delivery of its first remanufactured AH-64E Apache.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Redwire’s upgraded Biofabication Facility is set for a Nov. 6 launch to the International Space Station, intended to advance efforts to culture human tissues and organs in microgravity for surgical transplant on Earth.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Ben Wallace has again held on to his role as UK defense secretary in the government being established by new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin is pitching a three-phase adoption of datalinks, processing and enhanced situational awareness for its LMXT tanker, as the U.S. Air Force works through its requirements and decides whether to continue with a competition for the KC-Y “bridge tanker.”
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Graham Warwick
Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng has unveiled a revised design for its planned fly/drive electric vertical takeoff and landing “flying car.”
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has completed the first flight of an upgraded version of the L-159 Advanced Light Combat Aircraft, boosting its capab
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Brian Everstine
Ash Carter, an academic and physicist turned Pentagon leader who served as President Barack Obama’s last secretary of defense from 2015-2017, died Oct. 24 at the age of 68.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The altitude-raising maneuver was to avoid orbital debris associated with a former Soviet electronic and signals intelligence satellite that was the target of a November 2021 Russian anti-satellite test.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
In August, Lockheed Martin delivered its first flight software package for an updated national missile defense system, the Next Generation Interceptor.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
The initial flight will be “very short” and will set the stage for a series of follow-on flight tests of the fixed-wing demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Targeted at certification in 2027, the nine-passenger aircraft will incorporate a distributed electric propulsion system.
Advanced Air Mobility

Aviation Week Staff
Roscosmos Space Corp. has launched the first satellite of Russia’s new Sfera multisatellite communication and Earth observation constellation.
Space

By Mark Carreau
As a third attempt to launch the Artemis I test flight of an uncrewed Orion capsule around the Moon and back to Earth nears, NASA has placed a $1.99 billion order for three more of the four-person capsules for Artemis missions VI through VIII.
Space