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By Ben Goldstein
Created as part of the American Rescue Plan Act signed into law in March 2021, the program makes available $3 billion in total payroll support for aviation manufacturing companies that furloughed workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
A Russian research laboratory has flown an aerodynamic testbed for a planned short-takeoff-and-landing demonstrator aircraft using distributed electric propulsion to provide powered lift.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy has launched a $100,000 prize challenge seeking artificial-intelligence solutions for Project Overmatch.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The UAM coalition has been formed by the EU-funded projects Flying Forward 2020 (FF2020), AiRMOUR and Aurora, and is open to other programs.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Chen Chuanren
Shenzhou-12 will blast off on a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan satellite launch center in the Gobi Desert at 9:22 a.m. local time on June 17.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Automaker Hyundai and the Seoul metropolitan government have signed a memorandum of understanding to enable the development of urban air mobility (UAM) in the South Korean capital.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With a flare-up in coronavirus cases in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong seemingly on the wane, EHang has revealed it deployed its autonomous air vehicles to support COVID-19 relief and control efforts in Guangzhou.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The UK Competition and Markets Authority has issued an enforcement order to prevent both parties from integrating the offshore helicopter operators.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Space situation-awareness startup LeoLabs plans to locate its next space radar in the Azores, the Portuguese archipelago in the North Atlantic.
Space

The classified NROL-111 mission is NRO’s final scheduled launch for 2021.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A request for information published on June 14 by the Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office (RCCTO) gives industry until July 7 to submit ideas for UAS swarms.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The head of Russia’s Roscosmos State Corp., Dmitry Rogozin, has proposed creating a legal responsibility for leaving debris in orbit.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The UK and Australia gave up their unrefueled long-range strike capacity decades ago, but the introduction of the stealthy B-21 by the U.S. Air Force in mid-decade offers another opportunity to add a new bomber.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Russian intends to fly cosmonauts to the Chinese Space Station, launching Soyuz capsules from its own Vostochny Cosmodrome or Europe’s Kourou, French Guiana, spaceport, though neither site has yet supported a human spaceflight, the head of Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corp., said on June 15.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Rocket Lab will provide two Photon satellites for a NASA-backed small-science mission to explore the magnetosphere of Mars.
Space

By Tony Osborne
French shipping company Brittany Ferries has signed and agreement with U.S. startup Regent to study the use of electric-powered wing-in-ground vehicles for English Channel passenger services.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The partnership will see Eve’s vehicles added to Singapore-based Ascent's flight booking application once they are available.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Kim Minseok
KAI said its next-generation transport aircraft could be developed by 2031 with maritime patrol and civilian airliner derivatives following later in the decade.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Tony Osborne
Beijing’s “opaque” military modernization, the expansion of its nuclear arsenal alongside a larger number of sophisticated delivery systems, and its cooperation with Russia were all highlighted as causes of concern by alliance leaders as they met in Brussels on June 14.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris, Graham Warwick
Targeting FAA certification by late 2024 or early 2025, the Denver, Colorado-based company’s ambitious test and development plan calls for assembly and first flight of the initial TriFan 600 test aircraft within the next 20 months.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
During Phase 1, L3 and Raytheon teams will demonstrate electronic intelligence (ELINT) and communications intelligence (COMINT) sensors under controlled conditions.
Multi-Mission Aircraft

By Steve Trimble
Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have received contracts from the U.S. Defense Department (DOD) to launch the next step in the development of a scramjet-powered, hypersonic cruise missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Space Force is gearing up for the first-ever National Security Space Launch featuring a reusable booster that is scheduled to send the fifth GPS III satellite into space.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Heating the battery could enable fast charging for high utilization of electric air taxis while also enabling the rapid discharge rates required to provide the power for vertical takeoff and landing, researchers at Pennsylvania State University have demonstrated.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
French startup Ascendance Flight Technologies is progressing toward the public demonstration of its Atea hybrid-electric vertical-takeoff air taxi during the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Aircraft & Propulsion