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By Mark Carreau
The reserve could support perhaps 1,100 lunar personnel living and working permanently in the cislunar realm to grow a future $3 trillion annual space economy, ULA president and CEO Tory Bruno says.
Space

By Michael Bruno
The seven-year-old startup targeting end-of-life and debris-removal services for low Earth orbit satellites and beyond has landed $51 million in new venture capital from several investors.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
It was the seventh flight of the booster and capsule, and the program’s 13th launch since the first New Shepard system debuted in April 2015.
Commercial Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy’s top officer is not convinced the sea service’s sixth-generation fighter needs to be a manned aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The live-fly demonstrations for the Three-Dimensional Long-Range Radar (3DELRR) keeps the program on track for a follow-on integration and production contract early next year.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
Raytheon’s GBU-53/B, also known as StormBreaker, is now operational on the Boeing F-15E fleet, the U.S. Air Force announced Oct. 13. The 250 lb.-class
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
The SLS’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines will ignite for a full-duration, 8-min. firing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi
Space

By Tony Osborne
Traditionally, CT scanners have been large, heavy devices limited to static use in hospitals.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have selected a new technology for planetary sample collection and return for future missions to the Moon and Martian moon Phobos.
Space

By Graham Warwick
With the second largest helicopter fleet in the world, Canada has launched a program to develop the technologies, supply chain and regulations for advanced air mobility, including urban and regional cargo and passenger transportation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
The policy revision prevents grant funding from being used to purchase drones from “an entity that DOJ leadership has determined is subject or vulnerable to extrajudicial direction from a foreign government.”
Advanced Air Mobility

By Bill Carey
The FAA should strengthen its oversight of avionics cybersecurity to protect against evolving risks to commercial aircraft, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) advised in an Oct. 9 report to Congress.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Tony Osborne
Marshall is best known for its work supporting the UK Royal Air Force’s fleet of C-130 Hercules airlifters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
The company is investigating an unexpected pressure rise in a Merlin 1D engine turbomachinery gas generator.
Space

By Tony Osborne
France has contracted the conversion of 10 NH90 helicopters with new sensors for special operations missions.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Prismatic’s PHASA-35 high-altitude pseudo-satellite has been fitted with a sensor payload and been taken through simulated cold soak testing to prepare it for stratospheric flight.
Emerging Technologies

This week sees both the International Astronautical Congress (www.iafastro.org) and the Association of the U.S. Army (www.ausa.org) host virtual
Defense

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

By Graham Warwick
The startup describes the flight from Camarillo to Hayward in California as “the longest flight to date for any commercially relevant aircraft employing electric propulsion.”
Emerging Technologies

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

By Kim Minseok, Bradley Perrett
North Korea has unveiled a new type of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) in two versions, intended to fit into vessels with different launch tubes.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Jen DiMascio
The U.S. Space Development Agency is looking for a company to launch an initial set of 28 communications and missile tracking satellites to low Earth orbit beginning in September 2022.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Lee Hudson
After losing to Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems for the U.S. Space Development Agency’s inaugural transport layer contract award, L3Harris Technologies realized it must alter its strategy to win.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The new generation anti-radiation missile successfully hit a radiating target on Wheeler Island after being launched from a Sukhoi Su-30 MKI.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bill Carey
Irrational, “fear-based” concerns over drone safety and security are stifling the use of the technology in the U.S. after the initial progress that was made in 2016, leading drone manufacturer DJI says.
Safety, Ops & Regulation