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By Michael Bruno
A cyberattack on a newly acquired manufacturing asset and a foreign policy shift by the new Biden administration combined to overshadow topsized financial results disclosed by aerospace supplier Kaman on Feb. 26.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Mark Carreau
NASA astronauts Kate Rubins and Victor Glover on Feb. 28 kicked off a year-plus effort to upgrade the power generating solar arrays that reach out from the International Space Station's (ISS) long support structure in eight pairs with a challenging, hand intensive spacewalk that exceeded the planned six and one-half hours.
Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia has successfully orbited the first Arktika-M hydrometeorological satellite that will boost its weather monitoring capabilities in the Arctic region.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The Booster Test Flight at the Point Mugu Sea Range off California will mark the first of several flight test missile releases to support the Lockheed Martin AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon (ARRW).
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
The head of U.S. Air Combat Command is “not brimming with confidence” that Lockheed Martin will drive down the F-35 flying hour cost to $25,000 by 2025.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
Safran is negotiating a new agreement with Germany’s MTU Aero Engines and Spain’s ITP Aero after the latter joined the engine program for the Future Combat Air System.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Instead of demonstrating swarming technologies on existing weapons, Colosseum will focus on creating a live, virtual and constructive testing and demonstrating environment.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Naval Air Force Atlantic has conducted a demonstration of an unmanned aerial system prototype that is designed to provide long-range cargo transport to vessels at sea.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force has completed the last operational flight of its Sentinel wide area surveillance radar-reconnaissance aircraft in readiness for the type’s retirement at the end of March.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force plans to outline a similar proposal to Congress in its fiscal 2022 budget request as the service did in its fiscal 2021 budget submission to retire legacy aircraft and use those dollars for modernization efforts, the service’s chief of staff says.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The maritime patrol configuration will include a mission suite consisting of a Telephonics RDR-1700B synthetic aperture radar and a Flir Star SAFIRE 380-HD electro-optical/infrared sensor.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
A request for information released Feb. 24 by Air Education Training Command introduced the new “Introductory Flight Training - Rotary Wing” concept for the Air Force’s cadre of pilots slated to fly a helicopter fleet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Virgin Galactic does not expect to resume flight tests of its suborbital passenger vehicle until May due to potential electromagnetic interference (EMI) issues from a new flight control computer, CEO Michael Colglazier said during a Feb. 25 call with investors.
Commercial Space

By Bill Carey
Bipartisan leaders of the U.S. House Transportation Committee have asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the FAA’s efforts to introduce drones into the national airspace system.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Jen DiMascio
A two-seat Mirage F1B providing adversary air training services to the U.S. Air Force crashed off the end of the flight line at approximately 11:25 am on Feb. 25 at Tyndall AFB, Florida. One of the pilots ejected.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The selection ends a lengthy competition within Israel between the two U.S. heavy-lift helicopter options.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is exploring how to declassify information from the service’s new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance strategy and what the military will need from those platforms in 2030, according to the service’s chief of staff.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
With growing activity in cislunar space and lunar orbit, there is growing interest in using the weak and intermittent signals that are available from existing GNSS constellations for positioning and timing.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
Blue Origin is targeting the fourth quarter of 2022 for the first flight of its reusable orbital New Glenn launch system, a delay of about one year, the company said on Feb. 25.
Commercial Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force anticipates receiving answers from industry on the B-52 re-engining solicitation this summer but is uncertain on the timing of a downselect decision, according to the head of Global Strike Command.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Kitty Hawk has partnered with European health care company Falk to evaluate use of the Heaviside electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing vehicle in emergency response operations.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace has reimagined its T-629 attack helicopter as an unmanned platform.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Europe could lead global defense spending growth if nations continue current spending trajectories, analysis by the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies has suggested.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
BAE Systems CEO Charles Woodburn anticipates programs such as the Tempest Future Combat Air System to be “strongly supported through the Integrated Review.”
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Michael Bruno
Weather service startup ClimaCell on Feb. 24 declared its intent to launch and operate a constellation of small satellites in the coming years to power its aspiration of becoming “the largest weather enterprise in the world.”
Commercial Space