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By Guy Norris
As part of Reaction Engines’ continuing push to develop its pre-cooler technology for high-Mach aircraft, missiles and space access vehicles, the company has revealed it is midway through a U.S. Air Force-supported test program aimed at dramatically expanding the system’s performance envelope.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Virgin Galactic has signed an agreement to partner with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new White Knight Two jets to carry its air-launched passenger suborbital spaceships.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Ground control teams have re-established communications with NASA’s Capstone lunar mission, the space agency reported July 6.
Space

By Garrett Reim
L3Harris plans to invest €11.2 million ($11.4 million) in Mynaric in exchange for 7.2% of the laser communications company’s shares.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A new Northrop Grumman facility in West Virginia will be sized to deliver up to 600 strike missiles a year after opening in 2024, the company says on
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Vertical Aerospace has partnered with Taiwan’s E-One Moli Energy to supply lithium-ion battery cells for its VX4 electric vertical takeoff and landing air taxi.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is testing its experimental receivers for the upcoming Navigation Technology Satellite-3 as it is integrating the satellite ahead of its planned launch next year.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Finland and Sweden have become observer members of NATO, as alliance members sign off accession protocols to enable the membership of the two Nordic nations.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
A sprawling complex under arid mountains near the edge of Kirtland AFB here has a renewed life testing cutting-edge technology, more than 70 years after it was built in secret to protect the U.S. president in the event of a post-World War II disaster.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
The Singaporean Defense Ministry has played down the possibility of setting up a space division within its military in the near future, but nevertheless is closely studying the development of novel satellite technology, especially in the field of small to nano satellites.
Space

By Graham Warwick
UK electric propulsion startup Evolito has acquired battery developer Electroflight, expanding its business to encompass motors, controllers and energy storage systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
The newly deployed Capstone lunar spacecraft has been unable to communicate with ground control teams, NASA said July 5.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Northrop Grumman has selected Airbus US Space & Defense as its satellite bus supplier for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) prototype constellation.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Another startup has emerged onto China’s increasingly crowded electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
An entire wing of divested Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawks and some restricted airspace over northern Michigan may soon play a key role in a long-overdue revamp of U.S. hypersonic weapons testing.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Boeing is building a next-generation product support system for its military aircraft and building off experience garnered by the UK’s Royal Air Force.
Supply Chain

By Tony Osborne
The Royal Netherlands Air Force has acquired a secondhand Gulfstream G650 business jet for VIP duties.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Norway’s Kongsberg is to purchase a majority holding in Lithuanian small satellite integrator and bus manufacturer NanoAvionics.
Commercial Space

By Chen Chuanren
Elbit Systems has announced another deal in Asia-Pacific, securing an $80 million contract to supply directed infrared counter measures (DIRCM) and airborne electronic warfare systems to an unspecific country in the region.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

News in brief.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (Capstone) small satellite successfully separated from its orbital Photon propulsion stage early July 4, beginning a pioneering journey to near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon.
Space

By Guy Norris
The U.S. Air Force is expected to issue a request for information (RFI) within the next week for the design of a large-scale prototype of a blended wing body, the first details of which emerged in President Biden’s recently announced fiscal 2023 budget request.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon will send two advanced missile defense systems to Ukraine in its latest tranche of $820 million in aid for Kyiv.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army’s decision to delay its Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program by pushing production milestones back up to four years gives Sikorsky more time to mature its Raider X design, and although some in Washington have raised doubts about the program’s future, the service and company are still confident in its permanence.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
Electric short takeoff and landing aircraft developer Electra believes a 500-600 kW turbogenerator will allow its in-development nine-passenger aircraft to fly 30% more fuel efficiently that a similar-sized aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility