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Ukrainian Air Force
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Conferences and events for professionals in the aerospace & defense community.
Defense

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

Diamond Aircraft has relaunched the Diamond DA20-C1 equipped with new G500TXi avionics. The company has returned the single-engine aircraft, equipped
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Turkish Aerospace has begun weapon trials of its new twin-engine Aksungur medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
After 14 launches from New Zealand, Rocket Lab is close to staging its first Electron mission from U.S. soil, with the completion of a wet dress rehearsal at its new Wallops Island launch site, one of the final preflight milestones.
Commercial Space

By Irene Klotz
To better prepare to expand astronaut presence from low Earth orbit into deep space, NASA has reorganized the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and established a science definition team for the restart of lunar surface sorties.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Hungary has become the first country to sign up with a German-led air transport unit flying the Airbus A400M.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
Raytheon Technologies is on its way to cutting at least 15,000 employees in response to the company’s recent merger and the fallout from COVID-19, the aerospace and defense giant’s CEO told an investor conference, and likely more will occur.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Craig Caffrey
On Sept. 10 a Luftwaffe Airbus A310 Multirole Tanker Transport (MRTT) carried out a symbolic air-to-air refueling mission, marking the last time the
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Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
In an audit of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, the agency’s inspector general expresses concerns over the adequacy of funding and oversight of the recently established lunar Commercial Launch Provider Services (CLPS) initiative and efforts to identify potential impact threats to Earth posed by asteroids and comets as mandated by Congress.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A little-known technology development program involving secret unmanned aircraft systems has helped to seed the air vehicles available for the AFRL's pioneering Skyborg program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
NASA is removing a planned secondary payload from the August 2022 launch of its Psyche asteroid probe, leaving a pair of small satellites without a piggyback ride to Mars.
Commercial Space

By Bill Carey
The FAA’s plan to amend the collision-avoidance methodology it uses in licensing commercial space launches will support safer operations with more flexible launch windows as space at low Earth orbit becomes increasingly congested, the agency says.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Working with Nanoracks, LLC, NASA is about to mark a milestone in its push to transition oversight of human scientific research and tech development in low Earth orbit to the private sector as it sets its sights on the Moon and Mars.
Commercial Space

By Bradley Perrett
Modernity and adaptability are among the characteristics that Boeing is promoting in proposing its T-7 trainer for the Royal Australian Air Force.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Turkish unmanned aircraft system developer Baykar Makina has carried out the first flight of its Cezeri ducted multicopter electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Kopter Group is moving the prototype of its SH09 single-engine light helicopter back to the company’s home base in Switzerland following an extensive flight test campaign in Sicily.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo is proposing a military variant of its AW139 twin-engine medium helicopter for Poland as a replacement for the country’s aging W-3 Sokol and Mi-2 rotorcraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

News in brief
Defense

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

By Steve Trimble
U.S. Space Force and Air Force leaders are seeking to define roles and missions between all of the armed services for a broad range of capabilities.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
With 15 days left in the fiscal year, the U.S. Air Force and Space Force have not sent Congress a wish list of waivers to make living without a new appropriations bill easier.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Michael Bruno
At least 220,000 jobs in the U.S. tied to the aerospace and defense industry could be lost as civil manufacturers see international aircraft production potentially halved in the wake of COVID-19, the industry’s most prominent trade group revealed in its latest annual factbook.
Budget, Policy & Operations