In Pictures: Top Aerospace & Defense Stories, Feb. 01, 2022

February 01, 2022

Kansas Team Jumps Into KC-Y Tanker Bidding Contest

A Kansas-based team plans to offer a tanker variant of a passenger-to-freighter version Boeing 777-300ER to the U.S. Air Force. Credit: Wichita State University
U.S. Air Force
F-35 inspection

Piasecki Plans Hydrogen Propulsion Demonstration For Helicopters

With funding support from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWerx innovation unit, Piasecki Aircraft plans full-scale ground tests and a scaled flight demonstration of hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion leading into development and certification of its planned PA-890 helicopter. Credit: Piasecki Aircraft

NRO To Launch Classified Payload On Falcon 9

Falcon 9

NASA/HeroX Kick Off Mars Mission Waste Disposal Competition

Crowdsourcing platform HeroX is again working with NASA through a just-announced competition aimed at tackling another technical challenge to enable a two- to three-year roundtrip human expedition to Mars. Credit: HeroX/NASA

From news that a Kansas-based team plans to offer a tanker variant of a passenger-to-freighter version Boeing 777-300ER to the U.S. Air Force, to the delivery of a modernized sustainment tracking system to 14 U.S. and European bases by the F-35 Joint Program Office. Take a look at the daily roundup of aerospace & defense news. 

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