Aerospace & Defense Roundup: Sept, 30

High altitude long endurance aircraft and High Altitude Pseudo-Satellites have attracted the U.S. Force Service’s interest for monitoring wildfires and relaying communication signals. 

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China’s state space-launcher industry is turning to private enterprise for propulsion technology in an apparent attempt to overcome long development cycles.

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NASA has selected 14 companies under its Space Technology Mission Directorate’s tipping point initiative to help advance key tech on six fronts needed to achieve its human deep space exploration ambitions.

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Gulfstream is reducing jobs as it realigns its business, but it is too soon to say how many positions will be impacted, a spokeswoman said.

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BAE has completed final assembly of around 240 production Typhoons, and is gearing up to begin assembly for the Qatar Emiri Air Force, the first of which will be delivered in 2022.

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Farnborough Airport has been purchased by infrastructure specialists Macquarie in a surprise deal.

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Former NASA aeronautics head Jaiwon Shin has been appointed to lead South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Group’s new Urban Air Mobility (UAM) division.

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Link Space is working toward a 2022 first flight of a reusable rocket intended to place 180-kg payloads in Sun-synchronous orbits for a price of 20 million yuan ($2.8 million).

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