Defense and Space

The merger is set to “accelerate the commercialization of OneWeb’s fleet.”

The mission would be Terran R Launch vehicle’s first flight.

As demand grows for civil and military aircraft, global industry has yet to solve raw material, supply chain and skill shortage issues.

A deal would create a multi-orbit satellite heavyweight.

Raytheon executives say the latest version of the 44-year-old, radar-guided, air-to-air missile program has set two new time-of-flight records in the past 15 months.

Thirty-five members of the U.S. Congress say they are concerned about an Air Force proposal to use its Advanced Engine Technology Program propulsion system to replace the F-35 fighter’s current powerplant.

Northrop Grumman says it is ready to become a prime contractor on future fighter programs.

Typically considered an air-to-ground weapon, Poland will follow Ukraine's tactic of firing Brimstones from ground vehicles.

The U.S. State Department has cleared a potential sale of munitions to equip Kuwait’s new fleet of Eurofighter Typhoon combat aircraft.

China has sent the Wentian lab module to space, lifting off from the Wenchang Space Launch Site on the Long March-5B Y3 carrier rocket

Since all 12 KAI FA-50PH were delivered in 2017, the S.211 has primarily been used for pilot training.

Tracking capability is critical to intercepting hypersonic missiles.

Carbon-nanotube anti-ice; RAF advances synthetic fuels; Boeing taps UK SAF R&D; Electric taxiing for Airbus A220.

Advanced air mobility developer Beta Technologies has secured a 75-year lease at Burlington International Airport in Vermont to build a 355,000-ft.² electric aircraft production facility.

Relativity Space is “weeks away” from launching its first rocket, the Terran 1.

The launch of Russia’s robotic Luna-25 lander to the Moon is likely to slip to 2023.

The UK Royal Air Force is advancing its work on the development of synthetic aviation fuels as it eyes becoming net zero by 2040.

Bristow Group has secured a 10-year contract with the UK’s Department of Transport to provide search-and-rescue services to the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

BRISTOW has new 10-year, £1.6b UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) contract to provide search and rescue aviation operations in partnership with

BOEING rolled out first of four P-8As for NEW ZEALAND from paint shop; delivery is expected by end 2022.

The U.S. State Department has given the green light for the sale of 80 Lockheed Martin AGM-158B-2 Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles - Extended Range to Australia under the foreign military sales program.

The warning is in Japan's 2022 Defense White Paper that also discusses tensions over the Taiwan Straits.

NASA has awarded a $73 million contract to Draper, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program for a robotic mission to Schrodinger Basin on the Moon’s far side to conduct a series of geophysical and environmental science investigations.

Continuing a tradition that dates back to 1957, Aviation Week editors have announced their selection of the 2022 Laureate Award winners.

Tempest’s demonstrator will likely test low-observable airframe technologies and supersonic weapon launch from internal bay.