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By Bill Carey
The U.S. Forest Service notified Bell Textron of a “potentially serious maintenance issue” with its Bell medium helicopters just before Transport Canada and the FAA issued emergency airworthiness directives requiring operators to inspect the aircraft’s main-rotor hubs for potentially faulty hub strap pins.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
As alternative propulsion concepts show promise to help decarbonize aviation, leaders in the commercial aviation, advanced air mobility and business aviation markets have joined forces to establish carbon credits for emissions reductions enabled by electric- and hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
The FAA has approved a modification to Blue Origin’s launch license to fly passengers, clearing the way for company founder and financier Jeff Bezos and three crewmates to fly on the New Shepard suborbital launch system on July 20, pending weather and technical checks.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Drone Delivery Canada plans to test expedited deliveries from Edmonton International Airport in Alberta to local businesses under a yearlong project with the airport, Apple Express Courier and Ziing Final Mile.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Only a fraction of the investment required to make urban air mobility (UAM) an economically or socially relevant mode of transportation has been raised, and players in the market will need to take the long view if they want to see a return on their investment, cautions a report by Porsche Consulting.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory may use a system design agent to lead industry teams developing a long-range, multimission hypersonic cruise vehicle.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA and the Energy Department selected three reactor design concepts for space nuclear propulsion systems.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Germany has established a military space command in response to the growing militarization of the domain.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
United Airlines and its regional affiliate Mesa Airlines have conditionally agreed to order 200 19-passenger electric airliners from Heart Aerospace as they participated in the Swedish startup's $35 million Series A funding round.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
After nearly 50 years of service, the UK Ministry of Defense plans to retire its BAE Systems Hawk T1 fleet.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Graham Warwick
Hard on the heels of being appointed chief executive of delivery-drone developer Volansi, former assistant U.S. Air Force Secretary Will Roper has been named to the board of electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft developer Beta Technologies.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
NASA has added aircraft autonomy developer Reliable Robotics and 13 other entities to the list of partners that will participate in the agency’s first Advanced Air Mobility National Campaign in 2022.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. lawmakers plan to consider whether to block funding for development of a missile defense system for Guam, they say in a report on a fiscal 2022 defense spending bill.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
French hybrid-electric aircraft startup VoltAero has selected Rochefort Charente-Maritime Airport in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwest France for its final-assembly plant.
Emerging Technologies

By Steve Trimble
U.S. and Russian diplomats have pledged to open discussions to create “a mechanism that can lead to control of new and dangerous and sophisticated weapons that are coming on the scene now that reduce the times of response, that raise the prospects of accidental war."
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
NASA and SpaceX reported late July 9 a successful splashdown of the company’s 22nd Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A South African-designed competitor for U.S. Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) Armed Overwatch program was damaged on July 9.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Mark Carreau
NASA and Northrop Grumman have finalized a $935 million contract for development of the lunar Habitation and Logistics Outpost module, which along with the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE) will comprise the initial components of the agency’s human-tended, lunar-orbiting Gateway.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Defense Department will deliver 40 more aircraft to the Afghan Air Force after withdrawing all combat troops from the country, a spokesman
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Tony Osborne
Boeing has rolled out Norway’s first P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, ahead of a first flight later this month.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Germany plans to arm its warships with the Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM) as part of a joint cooperation agreement with Norway that includes submarines and associated mission systems.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Heaviside becomes the fourth electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (evTOL) aircraft to receive military flight release from the U.S. Air Force under its Agility Prime program.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Angeles Equity Partners is adding its own director to Primus' board as part of the deal as the Tier 2 supplier looks to scale up.
Supply Chain

By Bill Carey
The FAA on July 8 formally announced the entry into service of its Space Data Integrator, a system that enables the agency to track rockets and reentry vehicles in near real-time as they transition through the airspace.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

Volansi has named former U.S. Air Force acquisition leader Will Roper as the delivery drone maker’s next CEO. Roper, who stepped down in January as
Advanced Air Mobility