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By Chen Chuanren
The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said the spacecraft blasted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center and landed “horizontally” in Inner Mongolia.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A video has leaked showing the Sukhoi Checkmate fighter design two days before its scheduled reveal at the MAKS air show. The video confirms the
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force has performed an inflight, beyond-line-of-sight update to the Lockheed Martin F-16’s electronic warfare (EW) software, showing off
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems will provide support and training for a new joint British/Qatari Hawk jet trainer squadron being formed in the UK.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Graham Warwick
Archer’s claim to have independently developed its electric air taxi design is a “fairy tale,” Wisk alleged in a brief submitted in support of its motion for a preliminary injunction against its urban air mobility (UAM) rival.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
An automatic-takeoff-and-landing capability is scheduled to be released to the operational fleet of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9 Reapers owned by the U.S. Air Force next year.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Having started out with the vision of personal flying using a wearable jet pack, the eponymous JetPack Aviation has shifted its focus to a single-seat vehicle that the startup hopes will form the basis for a range of vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft for special missions.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Molly McMillin
The French Air and Space Force has signed an order for nine Pilatus PC-21 aircraft, to train future military pilots, Pilatus announced.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has approved a $25.04 billion NASA budget for 2022.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Airobotics’ drone boxes will support law enforcement for the six-month-long Expo 2020 Dubai.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
A covered, full-scale model of a new Russian stealth fighter branded by Rostec in English as “Checkmate” was photographed being moved into a display position on July 15 at Zhukovsky Airbase, the site of next week’s MAKS airshow outside Moscow.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
An 18-year-old student on a gap year before college will join Jeff Bezos, his brother Mark Bezos and aviation pioneer Wally Funk on Blue Origin’s first human spaceflight, slated to launch on July 20, the company said on July 15.
Commercial Space

The age of space tourism may have only just begun, with Virgin Galactic’s passenger flight last weekend.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Sean Broderick
A British Airways 787-8’s inadvertent nose-gear retraction at a London Heathrow gate last month was caused by an incorrectly placed pin during routine maintenance—a design-related risk that regulators flagged in an airworthiness directive that had not been implemented on the aircraft.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Airbus has joined Canada’s SAF+ Consortium, which plans to build in Montreal the first power-to-liquids plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel from renewable electricity and captured carbon dioxide.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Embraer’s Eve Urban Air Mobility Solutions has partnered with an energy company to evaluate development of a viable charging infrastructure for electric air taxis.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
In its latest defense white paper, the Japanese defense ministry names China as its main security threat and for the first time includes the stability of Taiwan in the annual report.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA is making progress in the development of a new spacesuit design to return human explorers to the Moon’s surface and outfit a wide range of male and female astronauts.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s Roscosmos is testing the elements of a single-orbit flightpath to the International Space Station.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Building on its concessions to manage highways, railways and tunnels in several countries, Spain’s Globalvia is expanding into urban air mobility through a strategic alliance with Chinese autonomous passenger and cargo air vehicle developer EHang.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Masten Space Systems will demonstrate a prototype of a GPS-like positioning, navigation and timing system on the Moon for the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the Mojave, California-based company announced on July 13.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Boeing is backing the production of sustainable aviation fuel in the U.S. under a partnership with supply chain developer SkyNRG.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Aimed at enabling single-aisle airliners to burn carbon-free hydrogen in turbine engines, GKN Aerospace is leading a two-year Swedish-funded research project.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Universal Hydrogen will retrofit ATR 72 and de Havilland Canada Dash 8 regional turboprops operated by Icelandair, Air Nostrum and Ravn Alaska with hydrogen fuel-cell power trains.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Jen DiMascio
The newly formed U.S. Space Force has not done enough to realize the space force vision, which was founded in large part to fix lasting issues with acquisition, according to draft legislation passed by the House Appropriations Committee.
Space