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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, November 24, 2021

VOL. 278 NO. 38 November 24, 2021
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Programs

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Favorable Weather Outlook Awaits NASA’s DART Launch Attempt

Nov 23, 2021
DART is the first attempt to demonstrate a kinetic impact strategy for diverting an asteroid away from Earth.

Technology

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Processing Mishap Delays Launch Of JWST

Nov 23, 2021
Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the $11 billion, U.S.-led successor to the Hubble observatory, is being delayed at least four days to no earlier than Dec. 22 to allow time for additional analysis following a mishap during processing the telescope for launch in French Guiana.
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Germany’s eMagic Builds On eVTOL Legacy

Nov 22, 2021
The 10 years that separate the first hover flights of the Volocopter VC1 and eMagic Aircraft’s eMagic One illustrate the advances made in a decade by electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology.
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China Completes Mach 8 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel

Nov 22, 2021
China’s AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute says it has completed construction of a new hypersonic wind tunnel that is reportedly able to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to Mach 8. 

Business

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Voyager Space Buys Sat Comms Specialist Space Micro

Nov 23, 2021
Voyager Space, a private equity-backed holding company of new-space upstarts such as Nanoracks, announced Nov. 22 it has acquired a majority stake in Space Micro, a satellite communications specialist for NASA and the U.S. military.
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Walmart, DroneUp Expand Drone Deliveries

Nov 23, 2021
Flight services provider DroneUp and Walmart have agreed to launch on-demand package deliveries by drone at three Walmart stores in northwest Arkansas, the companies announced Nov. 22.
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Flytrex Lands $40M To Fund U.S. Expansion Of Food-By-Drone Service

Nov 22, 2021
Flytrex’s delivery system uses a multicopter drone that flies autonomously beyond line of sight and hovers to safely lower the package by wire to the customer in the ground. 
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Airbus, Kelley Aerospace Sue Each Other In Singapore

Nov 23, 2021
Kelley is suing its landlord Airbus over alleged industrial espionage while Airbus is suing Kelley over alleged unpaid leases. 
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BigBear.ai, Terran Orbital Team To Bring AI To Smallsat EO Constellation

Nov 22, 2021
Terran Orbital, a small satellite startup that is about to go public, and BigBear.ai have signed a partnership.
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China’s AutoFlight To Certify eVTOL Air Taxi In Europe

Nov 22, 2021
Chinese electric vertical takeoff and landing startup AutoFlight has identified European technology investor Lukasz Gadowski as the source of the $100 million Series A investment announced in September.
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Skydweller, Telefonica Partner To Expand Broadband

Nov 22, 2021
Solar-powered aircraft developer Skydweller Aero has partnered with Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica to explore the use of its long-endurance unmanned aircraft to expand cellular coverage.

Contracts

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Pentagon Selects Four Companies For JEDI Replacement

Nov 19, 2021
The Pentagon on Nov. 19 selected Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle to compete for a multibillion cloud services contract, the next attempt to field the capability after the failed Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud contract was canceled.

Operations

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Startup Astra Space Reaches Orbit On Fourth Try

Nov 23, 2021
Astra Space, a California-based startup staking a claim in the burgeoning small-satellite launch business, completed a successful flight test of its Rocket 3.1 booster on Nov. 20, a mission backed by the U.S. Space Force.

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