Aerospace & Defense Roundup: Nov, 21

November 22, 2019

Private Mirage F1s Return To Flight Status For Adversary Air Mission

Credit: Mirage F1: Chris Lofting

U.S.-based adversary air companies are beginning to return Dassault Mirage F1s to flight in preparation for their role as commercial-operated aggressor aircraft.

 

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KAI To Deliver Eight Thai T-50s Next Year

Credit: Thai TA-50: RTAF

Korean Aerospace Industries (KAI) plans to deliver by June 2020 a batch of eight aircraft from the T-50 military jet family that Thailand ordered two years ago.

 

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Alliance Ground Surveillance Arrives In Sicily

Credit: USAF
Global Hawk
Credit: USAF
A-29

NASA IG Raises Commercial Crew Concerns

Credit: Dragon: SpaceX

NASA’s Inspector General predicts that certification of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Commercial Crew Program (CCP) spacecraft will occur no sooner than summer 2020.

 

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Credit: NASA
Moon

SpaceX Starship Mockup Lost During Testing

Credit: Starship explosion: LabPadre

A prototype upper-stage for SpaceX’s Mars-class Starship launch vehicle was destroyed during a maximum pressurization test Nov. 20 at the company’s Boca Chica Beach, Texas, complex. 

 

 

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