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By Tony Osborne
Bidders in Switzerland’s Air2030 fighter contest have submitted their best and final offers.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
Wei Sun, 49, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Arizona under a plea agreement to one felony count of violating the Arms Export Control Act (AECA).
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The head of Pentagon acquisition and sustainment is focusing on several priorities during the Trump administration’s final days in office, including the creation of a trusted capital marketplace, strengthening the defense industrial base and working with Capitol Hill on purchasing software differently.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
New Zealand start-up Kea Aerospace has unveiled plans to develop a stratospheric unmanned aircraft, aiming initially at the aerial imagery market.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
CAE will supply the six MAD-Expanded Response (MAD-XR) sensors to Lockheed Martin for integration on the MH-60Rs during Phase 1 of the program.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Lee Hudson
House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) is concerned the two U.S. Senate election runoffs in Georgia and “political calculations” over renaming military bases honoring Confederate leaders will hinder signing the fiscal 2021 defense policy bill into law.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Much delayed and technically challenged, the NASA-led development and prelaunch testing of the James Webb Space Telescope is now on schedule for an Oct. 31, 2021, launch, officials say.
Space

By Irene Klotz
NASA’s third cargo resupply line to the International Space Station, operated by privately owned Sierra Nevada Corp., is delaying the debut launch of its reusable winged Dream Chaser spaceplane until 2022 due to COVID-19 pandemic-related work issues, the company said on Nov. 17.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Additive manufacturing machine maker 3D Systems said it is on the verge of finishing one of the world’s largest, fastest most precise powder metal 3D printers for U.S. Army Research Laboratory use toward long-range munitions, helicopters, air and missile defenses.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
An image released by Aurora Flight Sciences announcing its selection under a DARPA X-plane program gives a hint at how designing an aircraft from the outset around active flow control could dramatically change the configurations that are possible.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Launch service operator Arianespace has traced the cause of the Nov. 16 failure of a Vega rocket to an improperly connected electrical harness on the launcher’s Avum engine.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Collins Aerospace is to work with Boom Supersonic to develop the inlet, nacelle and exhaust system for the startup’s planned Mach 2.2 airliner, the Overture.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Greece has submitted requests to purchase up to 24 Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, calling for a delivery of some of the aircraft from as early as 2021.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
SpaceX’s NASA-contracted Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station late Nov. 16.
Commercial Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
This will be only the second launch for the heavy launch vehicle since its maiden flight in 2014.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A U.S. Navy SM-3 Block IIA missile late on Nov. 16 shot down an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) target in a landmark test for the U.S
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Embraer has secured its second KC-390 Millennium airlifter contract after receiving a long-awaited order for two aircraft from Hungary.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The Vega light launcher, operated by Arianespace, failed 8 mins. after liftoff on Nov. 16.
Space

By Graham Warwick
A survey of potential urban air taxi users by German research organization Fraunhofer and vehicle developer Volocopter reveals a high demand for safety but a split on whether the aircraft should be piloted.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Historically, the ultimate cat-and-mouse game of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) is associated with acoustic technology, with the classic sonar “pings” emitted from an enemy’s vessels or sonobuoys even becoming plot devices of Hollywood films. As the tell-tale plankton of Gibraltar shows, however, the ASW community has always had other ways to detect submarines.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
Bell has begun the process of optimizing the design of its Electrically Distributed Anti-Torque system as it mulls how the technology could be used in a commercial rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
The Vega light launcher, operated by Arianespace, is to place two satellites into orbit on Nov. 16–Taranis, to study electromagnetic phenomena taking place above storms, and Seosat-Ingenio, focused on the observation of Spain’s territory.
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Safran Electric & Power has signed an agreement to power Bye Aerospace’s eFlyer 2 and eFlyer 4 certified electric light aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
A technology enabling real-time detection of clear air turbulence is to be tested on flights of a high-altitude unmanned aircraft from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
Speculation is mounting over what’s next for U.S. human deep-space exploration following the Nov. 3 presidential election, but one noted space historian believes the U.S. will still land on the Moon within 10 years.
Space