Subscription Required

 

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, January 11, 2022 is published in Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, an Aviation Week Intelligence Network (AWIN) Market Briefing and is included with your AWIN membership.

Already a member of AWIN or subscribe to Aerospace Daily & Defense Report through your company? Login with your existing email and password.

Not a member?  Learn how you can access the market intelligence and data you need to stay abreast of what's happening in the aerospace and defense community.

LoginLearn How
Magazine Issue

Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, January 11, 2022

VOL. 279 NO. 7 January 08, 2022
Download PDF

The Weekly Debrief

article

The Weekly Debrief: Can The U.S. Navy Deploy Ship-Launched HGVs In ’23?

Jan 10, 2022
A U.S. Navy officer asked the Skunk Works representative at the Lockheed Martin exhibit booth an impromptu question during the U.S. Air Force’s Weapons and Tactics Conference in the fall of 2020.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Funding & Policy

article

Calvin NASA’s New Chief Scientist, Climate Advisor

Jan 10, 2022
Katherine Calvin has been named NASA’s chief scientist and senior climate advisor, Administrator Bill Nelson has announced.
article

Denmark Targets Fossil-Free Domestic Aviation By 2030

Jan 03, 2022
Denmark’s government has set the goal of all domestic aviation being fossil-free by 2030, potentially through a combination of sustainable aviation fuel and electric and hydrogen propulsion.

Programs

RVS
article

USAF Delays Closing KC-46 Remote Vision System PDR

Jan 10, 2022
The plan to fix the KC-46’s troubled Remote Vision System (RVS) is delayed as the U.S. Air Force and Boeing try to work through a longstanding issue with the aircraft’s panoramic visual system.
JWST
article

James Webb Space Telescope Deployment Complete

Jan 08, 2022
Two weeks after the JWST was launched into orbit, the final segment of its 21-ft.-dia. primary mirror—the largest mirror ever flown on a space observatory—was rotated into position, completing NASA’s risky and most technically complicated series of in-space deployments.
article

French Gendarmerie Orders Law Enforcement-Equipped H160s

Jan 10, 2022
France’s Gendarmerie is set to become the first law enforcement operator of the new Airbus H160 twin-engine medium helicopter. 
Launch
article

Seoul Refutes North Korea’s Claim Of Hypersonic Missile Test

Jan 10, 2022
The South Korean defense ministry has played down Pyongyang’s claim that it successfully tested a hypersonic missile on Jan. 5, saying that North Korea had instead launched a Maneuverable Reentry Vehicle.

Operations

PIA
article

Mars Perseverance Rover Sampling Encounters New Challenge

Jan 10, 2022
NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has encountered another “small” obstacle in its campaign to collect and cache samples of rocky materials from the floor of the red planet.

Technology

zeroe concept aircraft
article

Spain’s Applus To Lead Cryogenic Hydrogen Tank Testing

Jan 10, 2022
Spanish testing specialist Applus has been funded to develop the means for cryogenic testing of hydrogen tanks for aircraft, in support of Airbus’ initiative to field a zero-emissions airliner by the mid-2030s.
article

Europe’s First Battery Gigafactory Commissioned

Jan 04, 2022
The first so-called gigafactory built by a European battery company has been commissioned, with the assembly of its first lithium-ion cell.

Business

Kennedy
article

Fred Kennedy Out As Momentus President

Jan 10, 2022
Shares in Momentus have fallen 60% since the space-tug startup went public in August 2021.
article

Wingcopter Expands Into Latin America

Jan 04, 2022
German drone delivery company Wingcopter has secured a new investor in Latin America as it expands its global presence.

Contracts