Saab has carried out the first firing of an MBDA Meteor beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile from its Gripen E combat aircraft as the type moves toward service entry.
Sweden has moved to the margins of the UK-led Tempest Future Combat Air System as it waits to better understand how the other partners will establish the program, Saab CEO Micael Johansson says.
Saab CEO Micael Johansson says the company’s Gripen fighter has faced an uphill struggle against security politics as it attempts to regain a foothold in the international fighter market.
South Korean startup MintAir plans to build an advanced air mobility service using electric rotorcraft and has agreed to order up to 40 aircraft from Jaunt Air Mobility, in addition to a previous commitment for 100 aircraft from Skyworks Aeronautics.
Space Norway has selected suppliers for a synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation that will be used by the Norwegian armed forces for monitoring Norway’s coasts for small boats conducting illegal activity.
The U.S. Air Force has three different standoff missiles in some stage of development and the latest variants of another in production, but that may not be enough.
“What we’re looking at is not necessarily to do it solely with NGAD. How do you do it with the F-35, for example?” USAF Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. says.
More than 6,400 new turbine-powered helicopters valued at more than $37 billion are expected to be delivered over the next 10-year-period from 2023-2032, according to preliminary data from Aviation Week’s 2023 Helicopter Fleet & MRO Forecast.
NASA had planned to launch the SLS, carrying an uncrewed Orion spacecraft, during a 2-hr. window that opened at 8:33 a.m. EDT. The next launch opportunity is at 12:48 p.m. EDT on Sept. 2.
The Kennedy Space Center launch team was assessing a potential hydrogen leak in the tail service mast umbilical, located at the base of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage.
The launch weather outlook was 80% favorable as NASA began the nearly 4 hr. process of loading the SLS core stage with 196,000 gallons of liquid oxygen and 537,000 gal. of liquid hydrogen.
Electric propulsion pioneer MagniX is to evaluate high energy-density lithium-sulfur and lithium metal cells from Australian advanced battery startup Li-S Energy.
After more than 30 countdown simulations, two core-stage Green Run static engine firings and four launchpad wet dress rehearsals, countdown clocks at Kennedy Space Center were scheduled to start ticking down on Aug. 27 for the long-awaited launch of the first Space Launch System rocket.
UK and New Zealand companies have joined forces to develop facilities to enable aerospace companies to test liquid hydrogen fuel systems for flight certification and support the shift to sustainable aviation.
T-Mobile has announced an agreement to use SpaceX’s Starlink constellation of low-Earth-orbit communications satellites for text message coverage across the continental U.S., Hawaii, parts of Alaska, Puerto Rico and U.S. territorial waters—remote regions outside the signal of T-Mobile’s terrestrial network.
