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By Lee Hudson
Senate appropriators agree that the requirements and acquisition strategy for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) are fuzzy, and also dismiss the Pentagon’s Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD) legislative proposal, according to a report accompanying the panel’s mark of the fiscal 2021 defense appropriations bill.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The joint NASA/European Space Agency mission to return samples from Mars’ surface faces a likely cost increase and two-year launch delay to address the challenges needed to achieve a high probability of success, according to an unusual, early independent review of the complex effort.
Space

By Graham Warwick
Backed by 11 years of technology development, a new startup has been launched onto the market to provide electric propulsion systems for aircraft, starting with drones but aiming ultimately at urban air mobility.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Boeing will train Qatari pilots for the country’s new F-15QA Eagle fighter fleet at a site near its St. Louis production line, the company has confirmed.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Research and test company Calspan Systems will build and evaluate wind tunnel models of the Talon-A reusable hypersonic flying testbed now in development by Stratolaunch Systems for deployment from its large carrier aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The share price of Italian aerospace and defense firm Leonardo has jumped after the company revealed it is mulling a partial spinoff of its U.S.-based Leonardo DRS defense electronics business.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond has focused the Space Force’s inaugural year on investing in resiliency, building next-generation capabilities and the establishment of a Space Warfighting Analysis Center.
Air Dominance

By Thierry Dubois
Ride-share schemes for small satellites are here to stay and, along with constellations and geostationary spacecraft, will contribute to solid activity in the near term, senior executives of launch service operators say.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
Nigeria has declared itself as the latest customer for China’s Wing Loong II armed unmanned air system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Supersonic aircraft developer Aerion has taken a further step towards finalizing the design of its Mach 1.4 AS2 business jet.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Working through unfunded Space Act Agreements with 17 U.S. companies, NASA has selected 20 space technologies it intends to help advance to enable future activities at destinations spanning from low Earth orbit to the Moon and Mars.
Commercial Space

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Russian Defense Ministry was cited by local media as saying a Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter was shot down on Nov. 9 near the Armenian village of Yeraskh.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
Slightly over 18 months since the Space Development Agency's launch, the first two elements of its future constellation are now defined and under contract.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is striving to complete a series of eight critical Green Run tests of the Space Launch System core stage by year’s end, a milestone that in late September it had planned to achieve in early November before Hurricane Zeta struck the Gulf Coast.
Space

By Lee Hudson
With fewer than 80 days left in office, President Donald Trump “has terminated” Defense Secretary Mark Esper from his role leading the Pentagon.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has experienced another cable break, this one to a main cable which gave way late Nov. 6.
Commercial Space

By Steve Trimble
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty resigned as the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration on Nov. 6 following reports of internal clashes within the Energy Department.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russian Helicopters has delivered the first two kits for manufacturing Mil Mi-8AMT heavy transport helicopters to Kazakhstan, which will host the first foreign assembly line of the Russian rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Army has completed a precision navigation, and timing assessment exercise informing requirements development that will eventually be integrated into Project Convergence.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Graham Warwick
Spanish air navigation service provider Enaire plans urban air mobility demonstrations in Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela in 2022 under two projects funded by Europe’s Horizon 2020 research program through the SESAR air traffic management modernization effort.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force’s 23rd Wing and 347th Rescue Group has received the first two HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopters at Moody AFB in Georgia.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The sample material recently gathered from the asteroid Bennu’s surface by NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft shows evidence for containing the water and organic chemistry that mission scientists were hoping will be returned to Earth, scientists say.
Space

By Steve Trimble
An attempt to rapidly field Tranche 0 satellites for a new Tracking Layer in low Earth orbit faces delays after two companies filed protests seeking to overturn contract awards by the Space Development Agency.
Space

By Guy Norris
LOS ANGELES—After a prolonged test preparation campaign, Virgin Galactic aims to conduct the first SpaceShipTwo (SS2) suborbital spaceflight attempt
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
The flight was watched closely by NASA as it prepares for the first SpaceX crew ferry flight to the International Space Station later this month.
Space