Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Mark Carreau
Axiom Space and Italy’s minister for Technological Innovation and Digital Transition have signed a memorandum of understanding to advance existing collaboration, the Houston-based firm announced May 25.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Volocopter has signed a memorandum of understanding with fixed-based operator Jetex to deploy and operate vertiport infrastructure and services for urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo is set to deliver components for the first Radar 2 variant of the active electronically scanned array radar for the Eurofighter Typhoon by year’s end,
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The Sigonella, Italy-based fleet of five Northrop Grumman RQ-4Ds conducted surge operations May 11-18 along NATO's eastern front.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
The expanded network will have the potential to reach 4 million households and deliver more than 1 million packages a year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
The mission prompted the scramble of Japanese and South Korean fighters, as it skirted territorial airspaces.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Chen Chuanren
The Singapore military has contracted Airbus to deliver its new batch of H225M helicopters from France, ferried on the company’s BelugaST transporter.
Airlines & Lessors

By Irene Klotz
A NASA robotic spacecraft designed to investigate the metal asteroid Psyche will miss its August launch date due to a software issue.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Another lunar buggy contender is emerging, this time with an autonomous explorer angle: Lunar Outpost on May 24 unveiled a $12 million seed round, promising a new class of autonomous Moon rovers.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station secured hatches between Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and the seven-person orbital laboratory May 24, preparing the uncrewed capsule for departure and a return to Earth at White Sands, New Mexico, weather permitting.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy will select a mission integrator in fiscal 2023 to convert the Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 airlifter into the next Take Charge and Move Out (TACAMO) platform.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force’s Space Rapid Capabilities Office has awarded BlueHalo a $1.4 billion contract to increase the capacity of the Satellite Control Network as the service projects an increase in demand.
Space

By Graham Warwick
As Lilium wraps up the preliminary design review for its Lilium Jet, the Germany startup has released a new concept image showing the latest configuration of its electric vertical takeoff and landing regional air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A potential electronic warfare add-on for the Lockheed Martin F-35 could originate from the Saab Gripen fighter.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Guy Norris, Sean Broderick
Boeing says it is on track to strengthen its engineering discipline, enhance oversight, improve safety management and encourage transparency and openness with its 140,000 employees.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Garrett Reim
The Outpost Mars Demo-1 payload, an on-orbit metal cutting robotic arm, is being prepared to launch aboard SpaceX’s Transporter 5 rideshare flight on May 25.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Kaman is to acquire the aircraft wheel and brake business of Parker Hannifin, enabling Parker to proceed with its acquisition of UK-based Meggitt.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Opening a window into internal decision-making over the final requirements for a new interceptor against hypersonic missiles, the head of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has cited the significance of, in fact, an actual window.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Boeing’s automated Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) Starliner has delivered some NASA spacesuit water absorption pads to the International Space Station to help address a worrisome helmet leak experienced by European Space Agency astronaut Matthais Maurer at the conclusion of a March 23 spacewalk.
Space

By Brian Everstine
More than 20 nations announced new packages of military aid for Ukraine following a meeting of more than 40 countries on May 23, the Pentagon announced.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Honeywell is developing a suite of alternative navigation technologies to combat increasing disruption of GPS signals, intentional and unintentional, with the first products planned to be on the market in 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Angus Batey
It is to everyone's advantage that there are a multiplicity of methods of getting to a sustainable aviation ecosystem, the panelists agreed, and "we have to stay motivated and we have to stay determined" to get there.
EBACE

By Tony Osborne
The EU is concerned that member states are not coordinating their procurements, leading to further fragmentation of the defense industry.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Airbus has received a U.S. Army contract worth potentially more than $1.5 billion to provide logistics support to the UH-72A/B Lakota fleet over the next 5 years, the company said on May 23.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Mark Carreau
The crew of the International Space Station (ISS) continues to check out Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner following its suspenseful rendezvous and docking on May 20.
Space