Defense and Space

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s air force has publicly expressed concerns about the availability of both its Panavia Tornado and its A400M airlifter fleets.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Startup ZeroAvia has partnered with India’s Hindustan Aeronautics to develop a supplemental type certificate for its conversion of the 19-passenger Dornier 228 regional turboprop to hydrogen-electric propulsion.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Collins Aerospace has demonstrated a directional communication system for small unmanned aircraft systems under a DARPA program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Israel Aerospace Industries has teamed with Romania’s IAR-Brasov to offer the Heron unmanned air system for expected military requirements.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Korea Aerospace Industries has secured a $360 million maintenance and flight support deal for the Iraqi Air Force T-50IQ lead-in trainer aircraft.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Mark Carreau
The crew's replacements are set to be launched to the International Space Station Nov. 10 on the SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon Endurance spacecraft.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Preventing contrails; Chinese eVTOL unveiled; certifying fuel cells; hybrid Panthera flies; and cleaning orbits magnetically.
Emerging Technologies

Aviation Week Network projections show the KC-46A fleet growing from 52 aircraft at present to 193 by 2030.
Defense and Space

AIRBUS and NORTHROP GRUMMAN teamed to establish ASPAARO (Atlantic Strategic Partnership for Advanced All-domain Resilient Operations) to pursue Risk
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon autonomously undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Nov. 8 and prepared for a parachute-assisted, late-night splashdown and recovery in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.
Space

By Bill Carey
U.S.-based satellite communications provider Viasat on Nov. 8 announced a definitive agreement to acquire UK-based Inmarsat in a transaction valued at $7.3 billion that would create an unrivaled, multiband space and terrestrial network serving aviation, maritime and other markets.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Will a new acquisition strategy win the next war for the U.S. military?
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s Navy has received six Skeldar V-200 rotary-wing unmanned air systems to support the operations of its K130 corvettes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has teamed with Northrop Grumman as part of a seven-strong industrial team to answer NATO’s call for its Alliance Future Surveillance and Control program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The Affinity Flying Training Services consortium has been awarded a £65 million ($88 million) contract to operate an additional four Beechcraft T-6 Texan II turboprop training aircraft for the UK’s Military Flying Training System.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Mark Carreau
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s latest survey of scientific priorities in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics over the coming decade recommends that NASA reassess how its most costly and ambitious “flagship” missions are pursued, from planning through implementation.
Space

By Brian Everstine
If all options are exercised, work on the contract will last until Oct. 31, 2031.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
North Korea’s cruise missile advancement, shown in the September test of a natively developed missile that can reach Japan, should concern the U.S. and is a sign that deterrence needs to be strengthened on the Korean Peninsula, the head of the U.S. Marine Corps said.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Direct talks between the U.S. Air Force and China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force have “dried up” over recent years and need to be restarted on Beijing’s end to avoid unsafe and unprofessional interactions in flight, a senior USAF leader said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The program now could enter a new phase of demonstrations with a single human controller assigned to launch and recover multiple X-61s from a C-130.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA and SpaceX on Nov. 5 continued to assess how best to schedule a planned crew rotation aboard the International Space Station in response to a challenging weather outlook affecting a Falcon 9 Crew-3 Dragon launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
ANA Holdings has an agreement that sets the stage for the purchase of 20 Virgin One LauncherOne rocket flights that would take off from Japan.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, French national space center CNES and Airbus have inked a letter of intent to cooperate on Earth-observation satellites, including development of VNREDSat-2.
Space

By Jen DiMascio, Michael Bruno
A discussion with Lux Capital Co-Founder Josh Wolfe and Partner Bilal Zuberi about where the venture capital investment company is placing its bets and how it pinpoints successful new aerospace and defense technologies.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace