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By Irene Klotz
China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft—one of a trio of missions that successfully reached Mars in February—will dispatch a companion rover for a targeted mid-May landing on the planet’s surface, Chi Wang, director general of China’s National Space Science Center, said March 23.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon awarded multibillion-dollar technology development and risk-reduction contracts to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for the Next-Generation Interceptor (NGI), officially ousting Boeing from the competition.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s newly arrived Perseverance rover is preparing to dispatch a small helicopter that accompanied it to Mars for the first demonstration of powered flight on another planet.
Space

By Lee Hudson
Ahead of the fiscal 2022 budget rollout, 24 Republican members of the House Armed Services Committee are urging President Biden to fund nuclear triad modernization and homeland defense programs.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The UK is looking to develop a constellation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance satellites as it expands its defense involvement in space.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The nominee to lead U.S. Indo-Pacific Command says the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) is “foundational” for filling gaps in the region such as intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, long-range joint integrated fires and logistics under attack, but would not commit to the Guam Defense System as his top priority.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
A microphone capable of detecting potentially hazardous clear-air turbulence at long range has been test flown on a balloon-launched unmanned stratospheric glider.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
Lockheed Martin and Omnispace, a startup targeting satellite-enabled 5G communications, on March 23 announced a “strategic interest agreement” to explore 5G business opportunities from space, and possibly creating the first dual-use commercial- and government-serving platform.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Metal 3D-printing startup Velo3D, which has targeted the aerospace and defense sector as a key customer, will become a publicly traded company in a reverse merger announced March 23 with blank-check company Jaws Spitfire Acquisition.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The future of the ground-based air defense system formerly known as Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) appears fragile after procurement of the system by the German government was put on ice.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
UK aerospace maintenance firm Marshall Aerospace says it is “disappointed” about the UK government’s decision to retire its Lockheed C-130J Hercules fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A Rocket Lab Electron booster has carried seven satellites on a rideshare mission into space from New Zealand.
Space

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee believes Democrats will try to kill the U.S. Air Force’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) program to replace the Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile in the upcoming budget cycle, but is confident there is not enough support for the strategy to be successful.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Electronics manufacturer Ametek on March 22 announced it has agreed to acquire Abaco Systems, a provider of embedded computing systems for aerospace and defense, among other sectors, from Veritas Capital in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.35 billion.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Maxim Pyadushkin
After a two-day delay to conduct additional ground equipment checks, the Soyuz 2.1a rocket flew through clouds above the Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan at 2:07 a.m. EDT on March 22.
Space

By Graham Warwick
A Boston startup is taking a new look at wing-in-ground-effect vehicles through the lens of distributed electric propulsion, advanced flight control and hydrofoil lifting surface technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System is the rare example of an acquisition style that mirrors the operating concept of the technology being developed.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The UK will invest another £2 billion ($2.77 billion) in the development of its Tempest Future Combat Air System and will purchase more F-35 Joint Strike Fighters beyond the 48 currently planned, a review of the country’s defense posture has determined.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s nearly two-decade-long push to establish game-changing commercial partnerships in low Earth orbit operations to expand human exploration and scientific research and grow the economy is broadening its scope to include a new role for private sector communications and navigation assets and services.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Glynn Lunney, a member of the Space Task Group that launched NASA’s human spaceflight operations and the flight director remembered for leading the safe return of the Apollo 13 crew, has died at 84.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The Eurosam consortium of MBDA and Thales has been contracted to develop a new version of the SAMP/T ground-based air defense system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The anti-surface Joint Strike Missile (JSM) manufactured by Kongsberg Defense and Aerospace performed a series of successful test drops from a U.S. Air Force F-35A at Edwards Air Force Base, California in February.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The first production EA-18G delivered in 2007 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, became the first aircraft inducted into the Operational, Safety and Improvement Program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Irene Klotz
International Space Station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and flight engineers Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Kate Rubins boarded their Russian Soyuz MS-17 on March 19 and undocked from the orbital outpost, reparking 34 min. later at a different module to clear the preferred port for the arrival of the next crew.
Space