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By Chen Chuanren
South Korea has successfully test fired a new submarine-launched ballistic missile from its newly commissioned diesel electric submarine, making it the first non-nuclear state to possess such a capability.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a full-scale demonstrator concept that would use active flow control technology.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
As NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission team worked to verify the successful collection of the large rover’s first sample of rock from the red planet, the rover’s companion Ingenuity helicopter drone took flight over the Labor Day weekend for the 13th time.
Space

By Graham Warwick
The startup is aiming for Part 23 type certification of its aircraft in late 2024.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Helen Massy-Beresford, Graham Warwick
The U.S. startup has teamed with UK-based LCC easyJet on the project to get direct airline input while it is still in the development phase.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
FlytX is being flown onboard a Guimbal Cabri piston-engine helicopter for the trials being undertaken in the South of France.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
German plans for offshore satellite launch have been boosted by the support of four launch providers.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
One of the four engines on the company’s two-stage Alpha rocket shut down about 15 sec. after liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sept. 2.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Jean-Brice Dumont, the newly appointed head of Airbus Military Aircraft, said several other sales campaigns for the four-engined airlifter were not far from conclusion.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Mark Carreau
Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov carried out the first of a potential 11 spacewalks outside the Russian segment of the International Space Station (ISS) on Sept. 3 to prepare the recently arrived Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Module for future operations.
Space

By Brian Everstine
While the House Armed Services Committee in its $778 billion version of the 2022 defense bill, allows the U.S. Air Force to go ahead with its planned cuts to the A-10 fleet, the committee presses the service to upgrade the attack aircraft with modern defensive systems that both the Air National Guard and Reserve have requested.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
The House Armed Services Committee’s version of the 2022 defense policy bill further reduces the U.S. Air Force’s C-130 fleet, with a member targeting aircraft in his own district as the Guard has pressed to keep more of the aircraft.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia plans to test a drip-type radiant cooler for its future nuclear space tug on the International Space Station.
Space

By Tony Osborne
A joint Franco-German air transport squadron that will fly the Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules has been formally established in a Sept. 3 ceremony.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Despite the impact of the pandemic, demand for helicopter services has remained steady in the Asia-Pacific region, according to Bell officials.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Italy’s Financial Police have arrested three Italians and three Chinese over an apparent Chinese attempt to acquire an Italian aerospace company.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
General Atomics’ SkyGuardian medium-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed air system has flown from the UK into the Netherlands airspace as part of a series of demonstration flights.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
Bell Flight says it is optimistic about the development of the rotorcraft market in China, saying the sector is large enough to support both domestic and foreign-made platforms.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Firefly Aerospace’s Alpha rocket exploded less than 2 min. after liftoff on Sept. 2, ending a debut flight test some 10 years in the making.
Space

By Molly McMillin
Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing’s largest supplier, celebrated the opening of its state-of-the-art Global Digital Logistics Center on Sept. 2, which Spirit says puts it years ahead of the competition.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Irene Klotz
Firefly Aerospace is on track for the first flight test of its Alpha launch vehicle, a two-stage, liquid-oxygen-and-kerosene-fueled booster designed to carry 2,205 lb. to low Earth orbit.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The Federal Aviation Administration said it is investigating a deviation in the flightpath cleared for the descent of Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Unity to Spaceport America in New Mexico, following its suborbital flight with Richard Branson and five employees aboard on July 11.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and local members of Congress spoke to the crew aboard the International Space Station Sept. 2, discussing the ISS and the agency’s efforts to return to the Moon.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo’s Osprey flat-panel active electronically scanned array radar has been adopted for use by Canada’s National Aerial Surveillance Program to patrol the country’s vast coastline.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Michael Bruno
Just weeks after announcing a successful demonstration of their combined products and services for U.S. military and intelligence customers, big-data analytics disruptor Palantir Technologies said it will invest in BlackSky, a startup with a burgeoning constellation of imaging satellites and its own data analytics service.
Space