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By Steve Trimble
Dynetics has won a competition to field a 360-deg., counter-unmanned aircraft system and cruise missile defense system for the U.S. Army.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
Stratolaunch has started installing subsystems in the first completed airframe of an initial version of the Talon-A before the start of expendable hypersonic testing early next year, the Mojave, California-based company said.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force is working with the wind farm industry and the government to develop methods to mitigate the interference caused by wind turbines on air defense radar systems.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Czech aircraft manufacturer Aero Vodochody has a new CEO following the purchase of the company by a Hungarian businessman. Viktor Sotona, formerly the managing director of Czech multilateration technology company ERA, takes over from Dieter John as of Sept. 30 as part of the change in ownership.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Graham Warwick
Delta Air Lines and JetBlue Airways have each signed large offtake agreements with new producers of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) as both airlines aim to convert at least 10% of their annual jet fuel usage to low-carbon alternatives by 2030.
Airlines & Lessors

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s 23rd NASA-contracted Dragon resupply mission capsule departed the International Space Station early Sept. 30 and headed for a late-night splashdown in the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico waters off the Florida peninsula with a 4,200-lb. return cargo, including time-sensitive science experiments.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The facility reports directly to the Republic of Korea Air Force's chief of staff and is designed to act as a coordinating agency for domestic civilian and military space units as well as foreign space counterparts such as the U.S. Space Force.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Automaker Honda has launched development of an electric vertical-takeoff air taxi and reusable small satellite launcher in a push to enter new business areas by leveraging its core technology capabilities.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
The FAA on Sept. 29 signed off on Virgin Galactic’s plan to improve communications with the FAA during flight operations of SpaceShipTwo and request a larger zone of protected airspace to ensure violations, such as what occurred during its last flight on July 11, do not reoccur.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
Boeing and the Defense Department have agreed on a contract worth up to $23.8 billion for C-17 sustainment over the next decade, starting with $3.5 billion for Globemaster III work through September 2024.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Integrating hypersonic glide missiles and scramjet-powered cruise missiles on the B-1B fleet is needed to “remain ahead of our strategic competitors,” a U.S. Air Force Global Strike Command spokesman says.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Eutelsat Communications confirmed Sept. 29 it had received an “unsolicited, preliminary” takeover proposal from billionaire Patrick Drahi but that his terms were not good enough.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Emerging from stealth mode, U.S. startup Lyten is promoting potential aviation applications for its high energy-density lithium-sulfur battery technology for electric vehicles.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Modeling future demand for electricity and hydrogen and ensuring safe airport handling are key focuses of 15 research projects awarded a total of £3 million ($4 million) in UK government funding.
Airports & Networks

By Irene Klotz
The flagship James Webb Space Telescope has begun its 14-day journey from the coast of California through the Panama Canal to the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana, program scientist Eric Smith told NASA’s Astrophysics Advisory Committee on Sept. 29.
Space

By Mark Carreau
A half-dozen NASA Mars rovers, landers and orbiters will cease or in some cases curtail their transmission and reception of data with Earth as the Solar System’s two most hospitable planets experience a two-week, once-every-two-year solar conjunction beginning Oct. 2.
Space

By Graham Warwick
The UK plans to build a center to lead research, testing and certification of new sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon has demonstrated a new manned-unmanned (MUM-T) teaming technology in a flight test sponsored by the Strategic Capabilities Office, the company said Sept. 29.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force has formally retired its Boeing E-3 Sentry airborne early warning aircraft from service.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Navy has launched unmanned air systems from the flight deck of its new carrier HMS Prince of Wales.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Czech startup Zuri has completed the first tethered hover of its electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology demonstrator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Guy Norris
Boeing is establishing an Integrated Product Team (IPT) to digitally pave the way for the design and production of its next commercial aircraft using capabilities and methods largely perfected on a recent set of military programs.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany is the third European nation to choose the P-8 following the UK and Norway after awarding a $756 million contract to Boeing for five of the maritime patrol aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
North Korea says that it successfully launched a hypersonic missile, designated Hwasong-8, on the morning of Sept. 28.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Airbus Helicopters has been extolling the virtues of its H175 super-medium helicopter as a platform for the UK’s New Medium Helicopter with a series of demonstration flights.
Aircraft & Propulsion