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By Irene Klotz
Boeing is aiming to launch its third CST-100 Starliner spacecraft—this time with a pair of NASA astronauts aboard—in about six months, managers told reporters on Aug. 25.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Navy’s Fleet Readiness Center East at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, recently tested using autonomous vehicles to speed up material handling at a parts warehouse, an experiment to find ways to free up personnel for aircraft maintenance work.
MRO

By Graham Warwick
U.S. startup Jetoptera plans to test a blended wing body model with integrated fluidic propulsion and upper-surface blowing as it bids to win a U.S. Air Force contract to build a prototype high-speed vertical/short takeoff and landing aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
With wildfires raging across Europe, German aerospace center DLR has announced the winners of a university challenge to design an optimized fleet of firefighting aircraft, with first place going to a team from the University of Stuttgart and its hybrid-electric vertical takeoff and landing design.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
A Northrop Grumman B-2 bomber recently launched a Lockheed Martin AGM-158B Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range for the first time as part of a series of upgrades to the bomber.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Brian Everstine
U.S. aircraft struck infrastructure sites reportedly belonging to Iranian-backed militias on Aug. 23 more than a week after American troops were targeted in an attack that a U.S. official said was directly linked to Tehran by, among other things, wreckage of Iranian-made drones.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Garrett Reim
Ottawa and Berlin have committed to a Canada-Germany Hydrogen Alliance to boost investment, production and transatlantic trade in hydrogen, with a goal to export clean hydrogen from Canada to Germany as soon as 2025.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The White House announced its largest-yet tranche of aid for Ukraine on Aug. 24.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Guy Norris
Amid growing orbital threats from China and Russia, U.S. Space Command is calling on industry for innovative solutions to form a global space domain awareness sensor network that will be interoperable with systems used by international allies.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
Lockheed Martin Australia has announced that its R&D team’s Science, Technology, Engineering Leadership, Research Laboratory has successfully implemented artificial intelligence-powered decision support capabilities for the Australia Defense Force’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense system.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants to privatize its helicopter pilot training, turning to industry to provide all aspects of initial training for pilots headed for its chopper cockpits.
Light Attack and Advanced Training

By Mark Carreau
NASA has chosen three companies to continue the development and environmental testing of prototype vertical solar arrays that could be positioned at the Moon’s south pole to provide electrical power for a range of future human and robotic operations.
Space

By Molly McMillin
Aviation employment is down nearly 50% since 2020, but manufacturing output is higher.
Airports, FBOs & Suppliers

By Tony Osborne
One of the UK Royal Air Force’s new P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft has been credited with helping to rescue two rowers in the North Atlantic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo Helicopters has performed initial flight tests of its AW249 attack helicopter under development for the Italian Army.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s initial development of counter-unmanned aerial system capabilities was specifically focused on Middle East base defenses, but the Russia-Ukraine war has shown that the capability needs to be deployed globally with tactical units also able to down the drones, the U.S. Army’s officer in charge of the mission says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The U.S. Army has halted further flight tests of the Airbus Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite following the loss of one of the aircraft after a 64-day flight.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Startup Relativity Space successfully completed a full-duration, 20-sec. test run of its Terran 1 rocket with its nine first-stage Aeon liquid oxygen/liquid natural gas engines at Cape Canaveral on Aug. 22, clearing a major hurdle toward a planned debut launch attempt in the coming weeks or months.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
AeroVironment has acquired Plank Aerosystems, developer of autonomous uncrewed air vehicle (UAV) guidance and navigation software.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
Collins Aerospace has flight tested its MS-110 reconnaissance pod on an F-16 for the first time, the company says in an Aug. 22 announcement.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
You can imagine the frustration of Airbus’ engineers. Just hours before the company’s Zephyr high-altitude pseudo-satellite looked set to break a 60-year-old flight-duration record, the solar-powered uncrewed aircraft system was lost.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Army has completed initial operational test and evaluation of the new UH-60V Black Hawk, the service says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Frank Rubio, the first NASA astronaut scheduled to travel to and from the International Space Station under a new launch seat exchange agreement between NASA and Russian space agency Roscosmos, has praised efforts by the two agencies to continue their cooperation in space.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA is asking the aerospace industry to describe a commercial strategy for the planned deorbiting of the International Space Station, which is currently planned for the end of 2030.
Commercial Space

By Kurt Hofmann
FarCargo will fly fresh salmon to the U.S. using a Boeing 757-200F.
Airlines & Lessors