Gallery: Aerospace & Defense Roundup: November 8, 2021
November 08, 2021
Lockheed Gets $10.86 Billion For F-22 Modernization
If all options are exercised, work on the contract will last until Oct. 31, 2031. Read the full story.
Credit: Lisa Lake/Getty Images
Decadal Survey Urges Overhaul Of NASA Flagship Mission Management
Credit: NASA
JWST
Japan Studies Hydrogen Aircraft, Ultra-Light Structures
Japan has launched two projects to develop technologies for next-generation commercial aircraft. Read the full story.
Credit: NEDO
More Texans Added To UK Training Fleet
The Affinity Flying Training Services consortium has been awarded a £65 million ($88 million) contract to operate an additional four Beechcraft T-6 Texan II turboprop training aircraft for the UK’s Military Flying Training System. Read the full story.
Credit: UK MoD
Airbus, Northrop Grumman Team Up For NATO AFSC Requirement
Credit: Val Gempis
E-3D Sentry
German Navy Prepares For Unmanned Rotorcraft Operations
Germany’s Navy has received six Skeldar V-200 rotary-wing unmanned air systems to support the operations of its K130 corvettes. Read the full story.
Credit: ESG Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH
Wright Partners To Define Electric-Powered BAe 146
Wright believes that by 2026 both hydrogen and aluminum fuel cells can meet its requirement for around 10 megawatt hours of energy storage on the BAe 146 to enable 1-hr. flights on routes of 400 nm or shorter. Read the full story.
Credit: Wright Electric
Viasat Buying Inmarsat In Satcom Mega-Acquisition
U.S.-based satellite communications provider Viasat on Nov. 8 announced a definitive agreement to acquire UK-based Inmarsat in a transaction valued at $7.3 billion that would create an unrivaled, multiband space and terrestrial network serving aviation, maritime and other markets. Read the full story.
Credit: Inmarsat
SpaceX Crew-2 Astronauts Depart Space Station For Earth
The SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon autonomously undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Nov. 8 and prepared for a parachute-assisted, late-night splashdown and recovery in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. Read the full story.
Credit: NASA
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