Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Steve Trimble
The digital transfer to the aircraft from the B-2’s Advanced Communications ground station automates a function that required crews to manually input the data.
Aircraft & Propulsion

The mission date is to be announced at a later date, and the name of the astronaut awaits approval by NASA and the other ISS partners.
Commercial Space

NASA has awarded Advanced Space two new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase 1 contracts.
Space

By Ben Goldstein
Many investors bought into electric air-taxi companies in 2021 hoping to find the next Tesla, but instead they may be stuck with the next Uber.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 eVTOL prototype suffered significant damage during a remotely piloted flight test at Cotswold Airport in Kemble, England.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Helen Massy-Beresford
LCC Norwegian has won a $97 million four-year contract to provide around 250,000 flights annually for the defense sector in Norway and the Nordic region.
Airlines & Lessors

By Tony Osborne
Warsaw expects delivery of all four Polish Navy Leonardo AW101s—purchased in a deal worth €380 million ($427 million)—by the end of this year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The linkup between Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and Australia’s Hypersonix Launch Systems is the latest in Hypersonix’s growth into the U.S. market.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Current plans call for the first Romanian F-35s to be delivered by Lockheed Martin in 2030 to replace the country’s F-16 fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
New Zealand's temporary flight ban on the NH90s was spurred by the devastating July 28 crash of its Australian counterpart.
Aircraft & Propulsion

During more than three decades in our Washington bureau, Bond wore many hats: reporter, editor, content innovator and mentor to young journalists.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Ben Goldstein
Skyports Drone Services has announced the successful completion of a four-week drone delivery trial.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
The offerings are built around a new family of vehicles known as Elytra (a term for the wings of a firefly).
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other key agency leaders are acknowledging challenges in meeting the December 2025 schedule for the Artemis III lunar landing.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The spacecraft originally were to fly on separate missions on startup ABL Space Systems’ RS1.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Legislators hope that completing the final transfer of the aircraft will end an almost decade-long saga.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Palantir Technologies’ sales rose 13% annually to $533 million in the second quarter with government clients accounting for 57% of total revenue.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The service in March announced the creation of a new cross-functional team (CFT) in Army Futures Command.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The Conventional Prompt Strike missile is one of several weapon systems pursuing alternatives to an increasingly threatened GPS-based approach to navigation.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon needs a new way to coordinate and advocate for “missile defeat,” the U.S. Army’s top missile defense official says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Benchmark Space Systems, a propulsion systems manufacturer, has raised a $33 million Series B round.
Commercial Space

By Molly McMillin, Steve Trimble
Textron Aviation has won type certification from the National Civil Aviation Authority of Brazil (ANAC) for its Cessna 408 SkyCourier utility turboprop.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army plans to increase its Patriot missile defense units even as it faces intense recruiting issues sparked by a congressional push to grow its force.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week Staff
Russia has started to modernize its Glonass space-based navigation system with a new generation of satellites.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Startup Transcend Air has redesigned its turbine-powered tiltwing VTOL aircraft and is working to raise the funds required to build a proof-of-concept vehicle.
Aircraft & Propulsion