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

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

By Tony Osborne
British start-up Stratospheric Platforms is developing a hydrogen fuel cell-powered, high-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system (UAS) that could provide cellular connectivity to remote areas.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected Intuitive Machines to launch and deliver a drill and mass spectrometer payload to the Moon by December 2022 to seek out seek out and attempt to harvest subsurface water ice at the lunar south pole for the first time.
Space

By Mark Carreau
There is promising new science on the horizon as NASA’s nimble Osiris-Rex sample return spacecraft prepares for a daring brief encounter on Oct. 20 with its distant target, the primitive asteroid Bennu.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The declaration by Iran appears to open the door to re-opening arms purchases with China and Russia, but U.S. diplomats warned any such deals would trigger a new round of sanctions.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The lack of an appropriations bill passed by Congress and signed into law by the president is forcing the U.S. Space Force to slow down some of its work.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A video of a missile test from the Black Sea report of Sinop on Oct. 16 drew a response from the U.S. Defense Department condemning its NATO ally, if the reports of an S-400 missile firing are accurate.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
Switzerland’s RUAG International is selling production of the 19-seater Dornier 228 twin-turboprop regional aircraft to General Atomics’ European business.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

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

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has flown an unmanned compound rotorcraft designed to demonstrate higher speed capability than a conventional helicopter
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The new suppliers fill-out the OpFires industry team for OpFires program following DARPA’s selection of Aerojet Rocketdyne to deliver the critical upper-stage last summer.
Missile Defense & Weapons

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Defense

By Steve Trimble
A “request for solutions” (RFS) published Oct. 14 on beta.sam.gov by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane seeks new production technologies for carbon-carbon and ceramic matrix composite materials in a vertically-integrated production facility.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bradley Perrett
India’s space agency has confirmed expectations that it will resume launches in November, saying it was catching up on work after the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
Japanese space researchers are studying concepts for a reusable orbiter with a mass of up to 5 metric tons for deployment by the Epsilon light space launcher.
Space

By Tony Osborne
The CEO of Italian aerospace and defense firm Leonardo has been sentenced to six years in prison for crimes committed in a previous role.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Rolls-Royce confirms that video of an electric vertical takeoff and landing tiltwing vehicle undergoing tests at Cranfield, England, is the company’s ground research test rig for future electric and hybrid electric aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bill Carey
Honeywell has acquired assets from Ballard Unmanned Systems, a manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cells used to power unmanned aircraft systems.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
A Systems Engineering Field Activity for the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office (JHTO) was opened in a virtual ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
A major upgrade for the Air National Guard's F-16s has reached full operational capability status a month after a jet equipped with a new radar demonstrated a new cruise missile defense role.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

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

By Mark Carreau
Introduced in April, the “Honey, I shrunk the NASA payload” global crowdsourcing competition is moving on to “Honey, I Built the NASA Payload, The Sequel.”
Space

By Graham Warwick
The experimental aircraft would be one of a suite of demonstration projects to mature key technologies for a next-generation subsonic commercial transport by the mid-2020s.
Aircraft & Propulsion