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By Brian Everstine
For seven weeks this fall, the U.S. Army’s vision of a conflict in the Pacific played out over the American Southwest with the goal of testing emerging technologies to the point of breaking them and guiding modernization programs at a time when the service’s boss says it needs to make ruthless decisions amid uncertain budgets.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Air Canada and Canadian clean-energy company Carbon Engineering plan to explore the potential use of direct air capture technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere for permanent storage or use in the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Indian private space company Digantara Research and Technologies has signed a contract with UK satellite startup Orbital Astronautics to launch a lidar-based debris-tracking payload.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The Brazilian Air Force said the planned purchase of 28 KC-390s exceeded “budget reality” as military budgets have been restricted.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Satellite-servicing startup Astroscale and a New Zealand government agency have signed an agreement to study the removal of three large debris objects from low-Earth orbit using a single servicer satellite.
Space

By Guy Norris
High-speed vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Transcend Air is conducting ground tests of its Vy 400 tiltwing concept at a drag-racing venue near its Boston headquarters while continuing to raise funds to support full-scale development.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The Dragon’s autonomous docking occurred at 6:32 p.m. EST Nov. 11, just under 40 min. earlier than initially projected.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin, Chen Chuanren
China will perform most of the heavy lifting in the areas of design and manufacturing, while Russia will supply the transmission, main rotor and de-icing system for the helicopter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Kim Minseok
From next year until 2026, Indonesia will pay the Korean government in cash and barter commodities in exchange for the right to license the manufacturing of 48 KF-21s.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The National Guard Bureau is happy with its current fleet of UH-60 Black Hawks and the pace of recapitalizing old A models with M variants.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
The tests, which involved a piloted flight by Volocopter’s prototype air taxi, demonstrated the service operating model and air traffic management integration.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Three customers are already in the books for the platforms, even before some are operational.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz, Mark Carreau
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:03 p.m. EST on Nov. 10 to deliver a Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Startup Archer Aviation has transported its Maker technology demonstrator to a flight test center in California in preparation for a first hover flight of the electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle before year’s end.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
In a search to add suppliers to help it build rockets, United Launch Alliance visited Wichita aerospace suppliers Nov. 10, accompanied by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas).
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Northrop Grumman has frozen the design for a satellite that could steer from low earth orbit an interceptor launched against a hypersonic glide vehicle or ballistic missile.
Space

By Irene Klotz
About 6 hr. ahead of when SpaceX was due to launch four new crewmembers to the International Space Station on Nov. 10, Russia conducted a 361-sec. burn of the station’s core module to maneuver the outpost away from a potential conjunction with a piece of orbital debris from China’s 2007 ASAT test.
Space

By Bill Carey
Satellite operator Iridium announced on Nov. 10 that its Certus 100 satellite communications service is now commercially available for aviation and other applications.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army’s Future Vertical Lift program has flown dozens of firsts over the last several weeks with a UH-60 Black Hawk “surrogate” for the Future Armed Reconnaissance Aircraft equipped with a prototype of the future helicopter’s launcher.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Existing composite materials and manufacturing processes will not scale to the production volumes envisioned for advanced air mobility and startups should consider collaborating to qualify new technologies, urges a company formed to help companies scale up manufacturing.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Zero-emissions propulsion startup Universal Hydrogen has signed an agreement with a clean-energy subsidiary of Australian mining company Fortescue Metals Group to secure a supply of green hydrogen through to 2035.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army is confident that the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile can fly beyond 500 km after the service lost telemetry tracking data of the missile during a long-range test last month.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Belarusian fighter aircraft escorted Russian Tupolev Tu-22s “Backfire” bombers and Sukhoi Su-35 fighters in an apparent show of force after Poland moved thousands of military personnel close to the border in an attempt to stop thousands of migrants crossing from Belarus.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Norwegian regional airline Wideroe is continuing its journey toward introducing zero-emissions aircraft, signing an agreement with Embraer’s Eve subsidiary to study electric vertical takeoff and landing operations in Scandinavia.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Taiwan wants to be able to better counter “Grey Zone threats” posed by China, which the island says are designed by the mainland to “seize Taiwan without a fight.”
Aircraft & Propulsion