Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Garrett Reim, Irene Klotz
Astroscale U.S. and Momentus have submitted a joint bid to boost NASA’s Hubble space telescope to a higher orbit using a robotic spacecraft.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The opening of the new line establishes Gripen production in South America as Brazil's neighbors shop for new fighters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The prospect is based on still-maturing research underway aboard the ISS and Earth-based research and technology labs.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
CEO Bob Pragada said the corporate divorce will stand up two well-established publicly traded companies.
Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
The electronic attack payload adds to the Army’s evolving plans to acquire high-altitude platforms.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Bids are due in U.S. bankruptcy court later this month.
Commercial Space

By Ben Goldstein
The memorandum of understanding signed by the two companies establishes a cooperative framework in a number of areas.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The Air Force Secretary believes opposition has lessened as House Armed Services Committee panels are set to mark up the fiscal 2024 authorization bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Less than a year after losing their ride to space, a pair of novel hurricane-tracking cubesats have been delivered into orbit for NASA.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Space Force wants industry feedback on its new approach to buying satellites for its space test experiments.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. military’s top test facilities for hypersonic weapons are facing issues with equipment reliability and parts obsolescence.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Momentus’ Vigoride-5 space tug has raised its orbit using its microwave electrothermal thruster, a propulsion system that uses distilled water as a propellant.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
President Vladimir Putin described the Kinzhal as the “most important” of the six modern weapon systems he revealed in a Kremlin speech on March 1, 2018.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
While much of NASA’s future human exploration focus falls toward deep space, the agency is not turning its back on low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Angus Batey
The UK’s Aerospace Technology Institute (ATI) has outlined additional details about its Hydrogen Capability Network Phase 0 (HCNP0) project.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Transcend Air has partnered with Israel Aerospace Industries’ North American operation to develop military applications for its planned Vy family of VTOLs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Virgin Galactic plans to return to space later this month with a fully crewed test flight of the refurbished SpaceShipTwo spaceplane VSS Unity.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
The first Airbus C295 destined for the Indian Air Force has conducted its first flight over Seville, Spain.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
China’s secretive “reusable test spacecraft” returned to Earth on May 8 after 276 days in orbit, state media Xinhua has reported.
Space

By Kim Minseok
Polish defense prime Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa is eager to participate in South Korea’s KF-21 fighter program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The SpaceX Crew Dragon switched ISS docking ports May 6 to make room for Axiom Space’s second private astronaut mission and a later a SpaceX cargo mission.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The first intercept of a hypersonic Kinzhal comes less than three weeks after the first donated German Patriot battery was delivered to Ukraine.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Garrett Reim
Lockheed Martin Space will reorganize itself around 3 focus areas: commercial civil space, national security space and strategic and missile defense systems.
Space

By Graham Warwick
The first noise specifications for electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) vehicles have been published for public consultation by EASA.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
European missile manufacturer MBDA has conducted the first Common Anti-Air Modular Missile-Extended Range (CAMM-ER) missile firings.
Missile Defense & Weapons