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By Irene Klotz
Development costs for NASA’s Orion deep-space capsule through the Artemis II crewed flight test—which is now not expected until May 2024—will increase by $2.5 billion due to an expanded scope of work, delays from pandemic-related supply issues and other factors, boosting the program’s overall cost to $9.3 billion.
Space

By Graham Warwick
South Korean automaker Hyundai has renamed its urban air mobility division Supernal and plans to begin certification of its electric air taxi in the U.S. in 2024, aiming to launch commercial flights in 2028.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Romania’s Ministry of the Interior has signed a contract to buy a fleet of up to 12 Sikorsky Black Hawk helicopters to be used by the country’s emergency services agency.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has performed what it claims to be the first helicopter flight on 100% sustainable aviation fuel, albeit powering only one of the two engines on the H225 testbed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s air force has publicly expressed concerns about the availability of both its Panavia Tornado and its A400M airlifter fleets.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Collins Aerospace has demonstrated a directional communication system for small unmanned aircraft systems under a DARPA program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Israel Aerospace Industries has teamed with Romania’s IAR-Brasov to offer the Heron unmanned air system for expected military requirements.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Korea Aerospace Industries has secured a $360 million maintenance and flight support deal for the Iraqi Air Force T-50IQ lead-in trainer aircraft.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Mark Carreau
The crew's replacements are set to be launched to the International Space Station Nov. 10 on the SpaceX Crew-3 Dragon Endurance spacecraft.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon autonomously undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Nov. 8 and prepared for a parachute-assisted, late-night splashdown and recovery in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Will a new acquisition strategy win the next war for the U.S. military?
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s Navy has received six Skeldar V-200 rotary-wing unmanned air systems to support the operations of its K130 corvettes.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Airbus has teamed with Northrop Grumman as part of a seven-strong industrial team to answer NATO’s call for its Alliance Future Surveillance and Control program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The Affinity Flying Training Services consortium has been awarded a £65 million ($88 million) contract to operate an additional four Beechcraft T-6 Texan II turboprop training aircraft for the UK’s Military Flying Training System.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

Aviation Week Network Asia-Pacific Staff
Japan has launched two projects to develop technologies for next-generation commercial aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s latest survey of scientific priorities in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics over the coming decade recommends that NASA reassess how its most costly and ambitious “flagship” missions are pursued, from planning through implementation.
Space

By Brian Everstine
If all options are exercised, work on the contract will last until Oct. 31, 2031.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Wright believes that by 2026 both hydrogen and aluminum fuel cells can meet its requirement for around 10 megawatt hours of energy storage on the BAe 146 to enable 1-hr. flights on routes of 400 nm or shorter.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Evolito is a new UK company bringing a new power-dense electric-motor architecture to aerospace.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
North Korea’s cruise missile advancement, shown in the September test of a natively developed missile that can reach Japan, should concern the U.S. and is a sign that deterrence needs to be strengthened on the Korean Peninsula, the head of the U.S. Marine Corps said.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
Direct talks between the U.S. Air Force and China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force have “dried up” over recent years and need to be restarted on Beijing’s end to avoid unsafe and unprofessional interactions in flight, a senior USAF leader said.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The program now could enter a new phase of demonstrations with a single human controller assigned to launch and recover multiple X-61s from a C-130.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA and SpaceX on Nov. 5 continued to assess how best to schedule a planned crew rotation aboard the International Space Station in response to a challenging weather outlook affecting a Falcon 9 Crew-3 Dragon launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
ANA Holdings has an agreement that sets the stage for the purchase of 20 Virgin One LauncherOne rocket flights that would take off from Japan.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Austria’s CycloTech is in discussions on the first application of its cyclorotor electric propulsion system after completing initial hover flight tests of a subscale demonstrator.
Emerging Technologies