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By Steve Trimble
Parts production for the 360 Invictus helicopter has started even as Bell continues to fine-tune the final design of the air vehicle and overall system over the next two months.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Flying autonomously more than 208 million mi. from Earth, NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft made brief successful contact with the boulder-strewn surface of the asteroid Bennu, according to data from the probe received by the mission operations and science teams on Oct. 20.
Space

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

Recent market intelligence items for aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

News in brief
Defense

By Lee Hudson
Democrat Amy McGrath is challenging one of the most powerful Republicans in Congress, Sen. Mitch McConnell (Ky.) for his Senate seat.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
Firefly Aerospace, which plans to debut its Alpha small satellite launch vehicle this year, has signed contracts with Spire Global and Geometric Space Corp. for multiple flights.
Space

By Steve Trimble
“The SPEAR flight demonstrator will provide the F/A-18 Super Hornet and carrier strike group with significant improvements in range and survivability against advanced threat defensive systems,” said Steve Mercer, Boeing’s SPEAR program manager.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Thales has adopted Silicon-Germanium semiconductor technology for its new airborne surveillance radar.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week.
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Irene Klotz
NASA and the European Space Agency have signed contracts with privately owned Nanoracks to use the company’s Bishop airlock, which is due to be delivered to the International Space Station next month.
Space

By Bill Carey
Transport Canada has granted geomatics company MVT Geo-solutions permission to fly drones beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) of an operator to perform powerline inspections in Alma, Quebec.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
California-based Pyka has a “minimum viable product” it believes can accelerate fielding of two of the hottest technologies in aviation: autonomy and electric propulsion.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
Satellite network operators Inmarsat and Hughes Network Systems announced a “strategic collaboration” on Oct. 20 to provide in-flight connectivity designed for commercial airlines in North America.
Commercial Space

By Bradley Perrett
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is proposing to use improved versions of its H3 rocket as a launcher for lunar supply.
Space

By Bill Carey
U.S. drone start-up Volansi announced on Oct. 20 that it is testing the delivery of temperature-controlled medicines in North Carolina with pharmaceutical company Merck.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Tony Osborne
Ukraine has already purchased Baykar Makina Bayraktar TB2 unmanned air systems from Turkey and is a partner in the development on the company’s larger Akinci medium-altitude, long-endurance platform.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
With the arrival of 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Oct. 18 and another 60 due to launch this week, SpaceX intends to roll out public trials of its high-speed internet service before year’s end.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The modest sample of pebbles and soil that NASA’s Osiris-Rex sample return mission will attempt to gather from the asteroid Bennu may hold important clues to how life arose on Earth and perhaps other planetary bodies.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory is supporting the Space Development Agency by building a hardware and software testbed for optical communications to enable interoperability between different satellites.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A National Academy of Sciences committee has been formed to study the technical feasibility of the U.S. Army's Strategic Long-Range Cannon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Swedish defense firm Saab has taken a 1.1 billion Swedish Krona ($130 million) charge over impacts on production of the Gripen combat aircraft due to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
European missile manufacturer MBDA is developing a ground-launched variant of its MICA NG air-to-air missile.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Aviation Week’s virtual Defense Chain conference (defensechain.aviationweek.com) is underway this week with speakers including Shawn Barnes, deputy
Defense