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By Bill Carey
Altitude Angel and Inmarsat have demonstrated a deployable UTM system that incorporates satellite communications to track drones flying beyond the visual range of an operator.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s new fleet of E-7 Wedgetail airborne early warning aircraft are to be based in Scotland rather than England.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Thierry Dubois
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) have confirmed the root cause of the Vega launcher failure on Nov. 16 lay in the assembly process, as opposed to being a design flaw.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
With self assurance and an us-vs.-them view of international relations, the Asian giant will not improve its behavior.
Defense and Space

By Lee Hudson
The Department of Energy says the recently disclosed cyberattack against the agency did not compromise the National Nuclear Security Administration’s classified systems, but the breach is still causing a stir on Capitol Hill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Cost sharing for the third phase of National Security Space Launch contracts will likely require more investment from the government than industry, according to United Launch Alliance Chief Executive Officer Tory Bruno.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Israel’s Missile Defense Organization and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency have completed a series of missile defense tests that indicate Israel’s multilayered air defenses can intercept incoming threats simultaneously.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
An independent report commissioned by Lockheed Martin suggests that the F-35 program could generate as much as £40 billion ($53.9 billion) for the UK economy up to 2038.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The council of the European Space Agency has appointed Josef Aschbacher—currently ESA’s director of Earth observation programs—as the next director general, replacing Jan Woerner in 2021.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The Joint Interagency Task Force-South is advocating that the military services bring aircraft for training to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility instead of a range stateside.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have finalized an agreement for Canada’s participation in the development of a lunar-orbiting, human-tended Gateway.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Germany’s ambitions for a smallsat launch capability from the North Sea has prompted the formation of a consortium to develop a ship-launch capability.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
The Amazon executive overseeing the Kuiper satellite constellation and connectivity service has said that the internet business behemoth will look to multiple rocket launch providers for access to space, even though launch provider Blue Origin is owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
Space

NASA has awarded Blue Origin a contract for launch services on its New Glenn rocket.
Commercial Space

By Bradley Perrett
The return capsule of China’s Chang’e 5 lunar mission landed early on Dec. 17, Chinese time, bringing back the first samples from the Moon in 44 years.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The Commercial Space Operations Center, now known as Comspoc, has formally split off as a standalone company from Analytical Graphics now that the latter has been acquired by Ansys.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
President Trump issued his administration’s sixth Space Policy Directive on Dec. 16, promoting the development of space nuclear power and propulsion technologies to support a permanent human presence on the Moon by the end of the 2020s and the human exploration of Mars in the decade that follows.
Space

By Graham Warwick
With U.S. hypersonic weapon testing poised to ramp up, NASA has awarded Northrop Grumman Systems a $70 million contract to support the SkyRange program to field a long-range, flight-test data collection capability based on high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Private equity firm Charger Investment Partners late Dec. 15 announced it had acquired a majority stake in Advanced Composite Products and Technology.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Ten years after the X-51 first flew under scramjet power, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has completed ground tests of air-breathing hypersonic engines that could accelerate a vehicle 10 times the X-51’s size to speeds in excess of Mach 5.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Kazakhstan Ministry of Emergency Relief on Dec. 12 received a new Mil Mi-8AMT heavy transport helicopter—the first airframe in the Mi-8/17 family assembled outside Russia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Plans to move the U.S. Air Force’s UK RC-135 Rivet Joint operating location from RAF Mildenhall to RAF Fairford have been canceled after the U.S. Defense Department decided to keep RAF Mildenhall open.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Persistent lapses in NASA’s oversight of key Artemis elements continue to jeopardize upcoming test flight launch schedules and plans for hardware upgrades after the agency returns to the Moon’s surface with human explorers, a U.S. Government Accountability Office audit says.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
Russia on Dec. 15 MST, conducted a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile test, according to U.S. Space Command (Spacecom).
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. State Department has approved the Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Italy of two special-mission versions of the Gulfstream G550 business jet configured for intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR).
Aircraft & Propulsion