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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, November 8, 2021

VOL. 278 NO. 26 November 08, 2021
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Programs

Kitty Hawk Heaviside eVTOL
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Air Force Agility Prime Program To Flight-Test eVTOLs In 2022

Nov 05, 2021
In 2022, the U.S. Air Force plans to have government pilots fly prototype eVTOL aircraft on military bases as part of the Agility Prime program, to evaluate potential use cases as the service moves toward fielding an initial tranche of vehicles in fiscal 2023.
VNREDSat-1
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Vietnam, Airbus Sign Satellite Cooperation Agreement

Nov 05, 2021
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. 
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DART Aims To Demo Deflecting Asteroid Away From Earth

Nov 04, 2021
Equipped with emerging propulsion and navigation technologies, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test is intended to demonstrate for the first time the potential effectiveness of a kinetic impact strategy in deflecting an asteroid on a destructive collision course with Earth.
Overair
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Overair Begins Rotor System Ground Tests

Nov 04, 2021
The rotor system will power a flying demonstrator of the company’s Butterfly quad-tiltrotor starting late in 2022 or early in 2023.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Virgin Orbit Boeing 747 launcher
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Japanese Airline Company ANA Invests in Virgin Orbit Flights

Nov 05, 2021
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.

Technology

Reaction Engines' SABRE heat exchanger
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SABRE Heat-Exchange Technology Could Turn Ammonia Into Green Fuel

Nov 05, 2021
Heat-exchanger technology developed by Reaction Engines for its Synergetic Air Breathing Rocket Engine could help transform ammonia into a green aviation fuel.

Business

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iRocket, Turion Space Startups Sign Deal To Loft Orbital Debris Sats

Nov 04, 2021
Three-year-old New York startup Innovative Rocket Technologies on Nov. 4 said it has signed an agreement with two-year-old Turion Space of Irvine, California, to launch 20 of the latter’s proposed Droid orbital-debris-removing satellites to low Earth orbit via iRocket’s planned Shockwave launcher.

Operations

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NASA, SpaceX Evaluate ISS Crew Exchange Options

Nov 05, 2021
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.

Fleet Snapshot

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