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By Thierry Dubois
After delays due to a launch failure and the COVID-19 crisis, Avio is proceeding with the development of an upgraded version of its light launcher, Vega C, planning on a three-year transition over 2021-24.
Commercial Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia intends to accelerate launch trials for its new Angara rockets.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Navy is to use Saab’s remote air traffic control tower technology to manage a remote satellite airfield in Cornwall.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A trial to use cargo drones to carry medical supplies and samples in western Scotland has been extended and expanded.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Irene Klotz
NASA has delayed the planned Feb. 25 full-duration hot fire of the Space Launch System (SLS) core stage due to a faulty valve in the system that supplies liquid oxygen to one of the vehicle’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Hayley Arceneaux, a physician assistant at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and pediatric cancer survivor, will fly along with entrepreneur and pilot Jared Isaacman on a chartered SpaceX Crew Dragon flight.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
A decade of durability and fatigue testing revealed that 30 parts on the F-35B could fail between 2,000 and 4,000 flight hours, or far short of the 8,000 flight hour service life required in the original development contract awarded to Lockheed in 2001.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The Defense Department inspector general is launching a probe into the U.S. Air Force’s decision to select Alabama as the home of U.S. Space Command headquarters.
Space

By Tony Osborne
European missile manufacturer MBDA and Emirati defense firm Tawazun have signed agreements that could lead to the joint design and development of the SmartGlider family of glide bombs.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bill Carey
Transport Canada has issued an emergency airworthiness directive requiring Bell 505 operators to conduct a one-time inspection of the helicopter’s collective stick to detect evidence of cracking.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The Israeli government has confirmed it will acquire a third squadron of Lockheed Martin F-35s as well as heavy-lift helicopters and advanced munitions as part of its new arms procurement program to update the Israeli Defense Forces.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Northrop Grumman’s 15th NASA-contracted Cygnus resupply mission successfully rendezvoused with the International Space Station (ISS) early Feb. 22, enabling astronauts on board to grapple the freighter and its 8,400 lb. cargo with the orbiting lab’s Canadian robot arm.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Emirati defense company Edge Group has unveiled a range of indigenously developed loitering munitions and a surface-launched anti-ship missile, demonstrating local advances in weapons development.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
Northrop Grumman’s 15th NASA contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) was on track to rendezvous with the six-person
Space

By Lee Hudson
Despite the fact that the U.S. Air Force is advocating for a Pentagon-wide tactical aircraft study that may push the service to purchase cheaper airframes, Lockheed Martin maintains the F-35 will achieve a $25,000 flight hour goal by 2025 as long as the military signs a performance-based logistics contract.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
In perhaps a first sign of consolidation in the overcrowded urban air mobility market, two startups are to combine.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Air Force leadership from Air Combat Command and Air Force Materiel Command have requested a meeting with F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) leadership and subject matter experts to discuss options and impacts of F135 depot capacity and sustainment concerns.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Boeing’s T-7A already “flies like a fighter” and would require several minor modifications to be adapted from an advanced jet trainer into a combat role, the company’s program manager said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
With NASA’s newest Mars rover safely on the ground, surface operations teams at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, have replaced the flight control team that oversaw Perseverance’s Feb. 18 pinpoint landing inside Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient lake.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Northrop Grumman’s 15th NASA-contracted resupply mission to the International Space Station is undergoing preparations for a Feb. 20 launch from the agency’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Air Force has named a re-formed squadron that will fly its first overseas-based F-35s from the UK.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Universal Hydrogen, a startup aiming to provide fuel systems and logistics for zero-emission commercial aviation, has landed former Airbus CEO Tom Enders as a strategic advisor and secured investment from Trucks Venture Capital.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Dennis Muilenburg will once again be chief executive of a publicly traded aerospace and defense company—in fact, it may be more than one, according to comments he made in an exclusive interview with Aviation Week.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Army has retired the Bell TH-67 Creek training helicopter as part of its transition to the Airbus UH-72 Lakota. The last of the TH-67s, a derivative of the Bell Model 206B3 JetRanger, made their final flights at Cairns Army Airfield, Alabama, part of the Army’s Fort Rucker Aviation Center of Excellence training center, on Feb 17.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Veteran aerospace engineer and former Boeing CEO Phil Condit has joined the advisory council of Boom Supersonic, the Denver, Colorado-based high-speed airliner developer.
Aircraft & Propulsion