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Aerospace Daily & Defense Report, March 4, 2022

VOL. 279 NO. 43 March 04, 2022
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Business

Northrop Grumman Antares launch vehicle
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Russia Suspends RD-181 Rocket Engine Deliveries To U.S.

Mar 03, 2022
Russia will stop supplying RD-181 engines, which are used on Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket, to the U.S. in retaliation for economic sanctions imposed in response to the conflict in Ukraine.
Marenco
article

Swiss Helicopter Developer Seeking Investors For New Rotorcraft Concept

Mar 03, 2022
The designer of what is now Leonardo’s AW09 helicopter is planning to unveil a new concept for a single-engine rotorcraft.
AiRMOUR drone
article

Europe’s AiRMOUR Aims To Help City Planners Integrate AAM

Mar 02, 2022
Europe’s AiRMOUR research project to produce a tool kit for the introduction of urban air mobility has developed a geographical tool to help city planners “to think in three dimensions.”
Cesium Astro
article

Airbus, L3Harris, Heico Help Invest $60 Million In AESA-Tech Startup

Mar 02, 2022
Airbus Ventures, L3Harris Technologies and Heico have joined a group of venture capitalists to invest $60 million in CesiumAstro, a four-year-old active-phased-array startup, the companies announced March 2.

Daily Briefs

In Brief

Honeywell UOP
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Honeywell To Help Build SAF Plants In China, Australia

Mar 02, 2022
Honeywell UOP is working with China’s Oriental Energy to build a large sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility in Maoming, Guangdong province. 

Operations

Damaged Antonov An-225 in hangar
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New Footage Suggests An-225 Badly Damaged In Ukraine Fighting

Mar 03, 2022
New imagery from Ukraine suggests the only example of the world’s largest aircraft, the Antonov An-225, was badly damaged during fighting at the company’s airfield at Hostomel, near Kyiv.
F-35 Flies Over Eastern Euirope
article

U.S., Russia Set Deconfliction Line Aimed At Avoiding Air Incidents

Mar 03, 2022
The U.S. military on March 1 established a deconfliction line with the Russian Ministry of Defense aimed at avoiding incidents in the airspace over Eastern Europe amid Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
Puma
article

Seven Romanian Personnel Killed In SAR Helicopter Crash

Mar 03, 2022
Seven Romanian military personnel were killed during a search-and-rescue mission that was looking for the pilot of a MiG-21 fighter that had crashed.
Soyuz VS27 OneWeb launch
article

OneWeb Pulls Satellite Launches From Baikonur

Mar 03, 2022
OneWeb board members voted on March 3 to suspend launches of its broadband satellite constellation from the Russian-leased Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Programs

Northrop Grumman B-21 concept
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First B-21 Enters Ground Test; Sixth Bomber Starts Assembly

Mar 03, 2022
The first U.S. Air Force B-21 Raider test aircraft has started ground evaluations, and the sixth example of the next-generation bomber has started production, the service announced March 3.
XSP
article

DARPA XSP Role Underlined In Boeing-NASA Lightweight Tank Tests

Mar 03, 2022
Boeing has confirmed that recent composite cryogenic tank tests that pave the way for future liquid-hydrogen-fueled aircraft used a reusable tank shell originally built as flight hardware for DARPA’s former Experimental Spaceplane Program.
Singapore's Rafael Orbiter 4 UAS
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Singapore Acquires Orbiter 4 Under Close-Range UAS Program

Mar 02, 2022
To improve the ground situational awareness of the Singapore Armed Forces, the Ministry of Defense has acquired the Rafael/Aeronautics Orbiter 4 UAS under the close-range unmanned aerial systems program.

Technology

Plana eVTOL concept
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South Korea Startup Plana Joins eVTOL Air Taxi Race

Mar 02, 2022
South Korean startup Plana has unveiled plans to develop a hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi with the range to enable intercity flights and service entry planned for 2028.
Royal NLR Pipistrel Velis Electro
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Netherlands: Short-Haul Flights Could Be Electric By 2026

Mar 02, 2022
Electrifying short-range aviation in the Netherlands will be feasible by 2026, concludes a report by airport consultants NACO and national aerospace research agency Royal NLR.
Horsefly UAS
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Truckmaker Workhorse Continues Delivery Drone Development

Mar 02, 2022
The Workhorse Group may have sold off its SureFly electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi program to Moog, but the U.S. electric delivery truck maker is continuing to develop its Horsefly unmanned aircraft.
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MIT To Apply Ultra-Quiet Propulsion To Delivery Drone

Mar 03, 2022
In November 2018, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology flew an aircraft on a propulsion system with no moving parts.

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