Defense and Space

The Falcon Heavy rocket’s side boosters returned to dual landing pads at the southern tip of Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, touching down in synchrony about 8 min. after liftoff.

The head of India’s Defense Research and Development Organization insists the debris created by India’s anti-sat missile test will not be a danger to the ISS.

The University of North Dakota, Harris Corporation and the Northern Plains UAS test site have completed initial field testing of a ground radio control system that supports drone flights beyond the operator’s visual range.

Ground and flight tests will pit aircraft and sensors against Swiss requirements for a Hornet and Tiger replacement.

The Czech airframer says it is committed to completing development and delivering its new L-39NG jet trainer despite financial difficulties.

An experimental Israeli spacecraft faltered minutes before a planned landing on the surface of the Moon.

The U.S. Army said plans to lock in the design of the operational version of the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft within three to six months after first flight of the prototype.

When asked for an example of how the U.S. Air Force is speeding space acquisitions, senior leaders tend to point to the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared program to upgrade the service’s missile warning constellation. But staying on that accelerated acquisition path may depend on more funding than usual up front.

Britain’s aerospace industry has cautiously welcomed the European Union’s approval to postpone the UK’s exit from the European Union by six months.

Thailand has conducted its first firing of a Chinese-made YJ-83 anti-ship missile in a naval exercise on April 5.

Facing a budget crunch, the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) may downgrade a long-standing helicopter requirement from anti-submarine to utility capability.

The architecture is based on repurposing hardware developed for Orion, including structural components and the propulsion system from its European-built service module.

USAF Secretary Heather Wilson expects to get feedback from the Army, Navy, Office of the Secretary of Defense and the NRO on the five-year Space Force plan.

NASA is awarding Planet a multimillion-dollar agreement to provide the space agency with Earth observation data to track essential climate variables.

The U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center may partner with the nascent Space Development Agency (SDA) by providing launch and contracting services.

Aerojet Rocketdyne’s road to financial recovery may have become harder now that Spruce Point Capital has issued a report arguing the California missile and space propulsion provider is overvalued.

Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade has canceled the re-engining of the Beriev Be-200 amphibious aircraft with Russo-French SaM146 engines.

The Space Development Agency (SDA) plans to issue a request for information this summer followed by a draft solicitation by the end of the fiscal year on a future space architecture.

Japanese F-35s grounded; industry calls Air Force IP buybacks a mistake; Raytheon helping bridge space tracking gap; Ukraine’s new cruise missile.

Frequentis and Sunhillo Corporation have announced a new system that connects drone operators with civilian and military ATC facilities.

The B-1B, C-5M and KC-135 fleets are now scheduling maintenance actions using algorithms designed to predict failures based on its condition in real-time.

Alphabet Wing on April 9 announced the launch of a commercial drone delivery service in the suburbs of Canberra, Australia’s capital.

Responsive launch, defending U.S. satellites in geosynchronous orbit and a proliferated satellite constellation in low Earth orbit may all be tools for defending against adversaries in space, but the nation needs to keep all options open through funding all avenues, according to the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition executive.

When India launched a ballistic missile at its own Microsat-R satellite, Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence was watching.

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