Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Graham Warwick
The startup describes the flight from Camarillo to Hayward in California as “the longest flight to date for any commercially relevant aircraft employing electric propulsion.”
Emerging Technologies

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

This week sees both the International Astronautical Congress (www.iafastro.org) and the Association of the U.S. Army (www.ausa.org) host virtual
Defense

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
Defense

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
North Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in two versions, intended to fit into vessels with different launch tubes.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
The new liquid-propellant weapon appeared to be an enlargement of North Korea’s previous ICBM, Hwasong 15, which implicitly has insufficient payload-range capability for all of North Korea’s purposes.
Air Dominance

By Steve Trimble
The letter from Sen. Bob Menendez and Sen. Jack Reed—both Democrats and ranking members of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees, respectively—demanded immediate answers to a list of 40 questions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Space Development Agency is looking for a company to launch an initial set of 28 communications and missile tracking satellites to low Earth orbit beginning in September 2022.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
After losing to Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s inaugural transport layer contract award, L3Harris Technologies realized it must alter its strategy to win.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The new generation anti-radiation missile successfully hit a radiating target on Wheeler Island after being launched from a Sukhoi Su-30 MKI.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bill Carey
Irrational, “fear-based” concerns over drone safety and security are stifling the use of the technology in the U.S. after the initial progress that was made in 2016, leading drone manufacturer DJI says.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Major parts for the Racer, a high-speed compound helicopter demonstrator being developed under Europe’s Clean Sky 2 research program, have begun arriving at Airbus Helicopters for assembly.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Proposed sales of both the F/A-18 Super Hornet and the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Finland have been given a green light by the U.S. State Department.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA is allocating $19.3 million for 21 studies on the physical and psychological issues astronauts will face as the agency prepares to return to the Moon’s surface in 2024 and advance to Mars in the 2030s.
Space

By Samuel Archer
Vietnam Military Aviation
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Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Guy Norris
As NASA continues feasibility studies into nuclear propulsion for deep space missions, DARPA has awarded an initial contract to help pave the way toward possible orbital tests of a nuclear-powered rocket for U.S. military use in and around cislunar space.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Marine Corps and Sikorsky are close to an agreement for six CH-53K Lot 4 helicopters and may seal the deal by the end of the month.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
A Russian-funded program to develop technologies for a low-boom supersonic passenger aircraft has kicked off with a virtual meeting of the research consortium in late September led by the project’s coordinator, the TsAGI aerohydrodynamic research institute.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Faster delivery of fresh fruit from grower to consumer is the promise of a test program unveiled by California-based produce company Giumarra and autonomous aircraft startup Reliable Robotics.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Multiple Air Launched Effects vehicles were recovered in flight by an octorotor during the Project Convergence 20 demonstration.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon has distributed its first-ever data strategy, which is integral for the Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept that will link military equipment across the future battlefield.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
There are several intriguing scientific findings among a half-dozen research efforts published just ahead of the NASA Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return mission’s scheduled Oct. 20 touchdown on Bennu.
Space

By Craig Caffrey
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