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COLLINS AEROSPACE was selected by Viasat as value-added reseller (VAS) for its Ka-band IFC system for business jets.
Business Aviation

CHINA SOUTHERN AIRLINES was selected by Meggitt to house pool of engine sensors and heat exchangers to dispatch to customers in case of AOG incident.
Aerospace

PARKER-HANNIFIN agreed to acquire MEGGITT, UK (via Court-sanctioned scheme of arrangement) in deal valued at £6.3b.
Aerospace

ENTROL has launch order from Paris Flight Training for four en-1000x simulators.
Aerospace

PRATT & WHITNEY marked five years of service for GTF in China (11 airlines), saving operators 95m gallons of fuel and >910,000 tonnes of carbon
Aerospace

BOEING has US Navy contract to manufacture five P-8A Poseidon aircraft for GERMANY for delivery starting in 2024.
Defense

EMBRAER forecasts delivery of 1,445 70-to-150-seat commercial aircraft in China through 2040; 77% will fulfill market growth.
Aerospace

By Graham Warwick
Textron has unveiled one of the electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing configurations being studied by its new eAviation division.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
South Korea has published its initial concept of operations for urban air mobility with the goal of beginning commercial operation in Seoul in 2025.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Aerospace and defense electronics specialist Mercury Systems, which is rejiggering its operations after a string of bolt-on acquisitions, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Avalex Technologies.
Supply Chain

By Michael Bruno
Griffon of New York City is looking to sell its defense electronics division, Telephonics, the company announced late Sept. 27.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Where several of its rival electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) developers have chosen to be vertically integrated, Vertical Aerospace is relying on Tier 1 suppliers funding their own technology development work in return for gaining access to a new aviation market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
Three International Space Station crewmembers inaugurated spacecraft dockings at the orbital lab’s new Russian segment Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module on Sept. 28 as they separated from the 11-year-old Rassvet Mini Research Module-1 in their Soyuz MS-18 to redock at Nauka.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
China has again flexed its domestic fighter-development capabilities at the Zhuhai Airshow, this time flying the Chengdu J-20 with the locally built WS-10C turbofan as well as rolling out the Shenyang J-16D electronic warfare aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
China unveiled its new Cai Hong-6 jet-powered high-altitude long-endurance (UAS, along with a number of other unmanned technologies at the 2021 Zhuhai Airshow on Sept. 28.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Requests for Quotation (RFQs) for major military aircraft program parts for the week of September 19 - September 25.
AWIN Knowledge Center

By Tony Osborne
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set out a long-term strategy for the UK to become a leading nation in space.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The U.S. Space Force is investing $24.35 million in Rocket Lab’s new medium-lift Neutron booster, with emphasis on the rocket’s upper stage for possible use in the National Security Space Launch program.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin plans to fly its second group of passengers to suborbital space on Oct. 12.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Privately owned Terran Orbital plans to invest $300 million to build a factory at Kennedy Space Center capable of producing 1,000 small satellites per year.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Landsat 9, the latest satellite in a long-running Earth observation collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Interior’s U.S. Geological Survey, was successfully launched on Sept. 27 from a foggy Vandenberg Space Force Station, California.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The so-called “production smoothing” agreement establishes the likely ceiling for annual F-35 deliveries at 156 aircraft after 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Isotropic Systems, a British flat-panel satellite antenna systems maker backed by Boeing and venture capitalists, says it has landed $37 million in fresh funding, enough to fully fund development of its multibeam ground antenna through expected product launch in 2022.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The first Embraer KC-390 Millennium airlifter destined for the Portuguese Air Force has been powered on for the first time. Portuguese Air Force officials from the service’s Monitoring and Inspection Mission to the KC-390 program watched the aircraft being powered up on Sept. 21, the Portuguese Air Force said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department has received the first operational Sikorsky CH-53K and F/A-18F Block III fighter over the past four days.
Aircraft & Propulsion