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By Chen Chuanren
The A$60 million agreement with the Australian government to provide heavy maintenance and upgrades for the Royal Australian Air Force’s P-8A Poseidon fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce has generated more than a megawatt of power in ground runs of a hybrid electric engine on a testbed in Bristol, England, which is designed to pave the way for future hybrid-electric regional propulsion system development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon has created another task force to research unidentified aerial phenomena, following a June report to Congress that outlined UAP encounters which pilots experienced but investigators could not identify.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Japan’s SoftBank is to issue its first sustainability bond to raise funds for its high-altitude platform system business, which plans to operate solar-powered stratospheric unmanned aircraft as airborne base stations for internet connectivity.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Twenty-three years after the launch of the first module for the International Space Station in 1998, Russia is preparing to complete the construction of its segment with the launch of its last element—the Prichal Node Module.
Space

Saab has started the delivery process for the first six Gripen E fighters ordered by the Brazilian and Swedish air forces, the company said on Nov. 24.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The regional airliner concept uses distributed hybrid-electric propulsion to reduce energy consumption.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Vertical says it remains on track to start flight tests in early 2022 as it targets certification for the VA-X4 in 2024 and entry-into-service in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce says it has generated more than a megawatt of power in ground runs of a hybrid-electric engine on a testbed which is designed to pave the way for future development of a hybrid-electric regional propulsion system.
Emerging Technologies

By Mark Carreau
DART separated from its Falcon 9 second stage just less than 56 min. after launching, a milestone followed by signal acquisition by the APL mission operations center 70 min. after liftoff.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The eldest daughter of Alan Shepard, the first American to venture into space, will fly on the Blue Origin suborbital spacecraft named after her father, the company said on Nov. 23.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
Lockheed Martin on Nov. 23 announced the Next Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (NGG) Block 0 program passed its system-level critical design review, keeping pace for the first launch in 2025.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Otto Aviation has completed the first phase of testing of its unconventional Celera 500L and says flights of the full-scale aerodynamic prototype demonstrated the aircraft’s low fuel consumption.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, the $11 billion, U.S.-led successor to the Hubble observatory, is being delayed at least four days to no earlier than Dec. 22 to allow time for additional analysis following a mishap during processing the telescope for launch in French Guiana.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Space, missile and cyber electronics rollup BlueHalo announced its latest acquisition Nov. 23 with a deal for Asymmetrik, a boutique software provider to the U.S. intelligence community.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Chen Chuanren
Kelley is suing its landlord Airbus over alleged industrial espionage while Airbus is suing Kelley over alleged unpaid leases.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
In South Korea Volocopter and Kakao Mobility are to study the feasibility of operating UAM services, a technology that Seoul wants to see commercialized by 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
DART is the first attempt to demonstrate a kinetic impact strategy for diverting an asteroid away from Earth.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Astra Space, a California-based startup staking a claim in the burgeoning small-satellite launch business, completed a successful flight test of its Rocket 3.1 booster on Nov. 20, a mission backed by the U.S. Space Force.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Voyager Space, a private equity-backed holding company of new-space upstarts such as Nanoracks, announced Nov. 22 it has acquired a majority stake in Space Micro, a satellite communications specialist for NASA and the U.S. military.
Commercial Space

By Bill Carey
Flight services provider DroneUp and Walmart have agreed to launch on-demand package deliveries by drone at three Walmart stores in northwest Arkansas, the companies announced Nov. 22.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Dubai has launched a program to enable drone transportation by creating an infrastructure to test unmanned aircraft in designated areas and develop legislation to enable their implementation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
The 10 years that separate the first hover flights of the Volocopter VC1 and eMagic Aircraft’s eMagic One illustrate the advances made in a decade by electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Chinese electric vertical takeoff and landing startup AutoFlight has identified European technology investor Lukasz Gadowski as the source of the $100 million Series A investment announced in September.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A newly discovered data dump by the U.S. Air Force last August discloses the first details about the progress in flight test of the secretive Lockheed Martin AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons