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By Graham Warwick
Spaceflight’s new Sherpa-FX orbit transfer vehicle is to be deorbited after its first mission in low Earth orbit by deploying Tethers Unlimited’s drag-increasing Terminator Tape.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The policy changes means the U.S. government unilaterally reclassifies any unmanned aircraft system that flies slower than 800 km./hr. (497 mph)—including the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. MQ-9 and Avenger, and the Northrop Grumman MQ-4C—as a Category 2 aircraft under the Missile Technology Control Regime.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is asking industry for ideas on a new maritime strike weapon.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
The AFRL awarded BAE Systems Land & Armaments a $2.72 million contract for an all-up round of the Hypervelocity Projectile, which includes a flight body and launch package, for an upcoming experiment funded by the Advanced Battle Management System program.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Tony Osborne
U.S. Africa Command (Africom) has confirmed the presence of Russian Sukhoi Su-24 Fencer fighter bombers in Libya after releasing satellite imagery of the Libyan National Army-controlled Al-Khadim airbase.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
Boeing plans to return to flight testing its MQ-25 test asset this fall, but this time the air vehicle will be outfitted with a U.S. Navy refueling store.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Swift Engineering has flown the first in a planned family of commercial persistent stratospheric unmanned aircraft.
Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s independent Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel thinks the U.S. should take the lead in addressing the growing global threat to low Earth orbit activities posed by man-made orbital debris.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Rolls-Royce is planning to make the first flight of its ACCEL high-speed electric-powered aircraft later this year.
Emerging Technologies

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

Conferences and events for professionals in the aerospace and defense community.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Four companies have been selected to build prototypes for the Skyborg family of autonomous and attritable unmanned aircraft systems, the Air Force Research Laboratory announced on July 23.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
A pair of French lawmakers are proposing a radical stimulus package to help the French aerospace and defense industry weather the novel coronavirus pandemic and likely economic crisis.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The Senate on July 23 voted 86-14 in favor of a $740 billion fiscal 2021 defense policy bill, setting the stage for committee staff to begin negotiating a conference deal with the House before entering August recess.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
The Trump administration’s National Space Council on July 23 released a 17-page report outlining its approach to deep-space exploration and development.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Keeping two hypersonic defense programs on track throughout the decade faces a set of daunting technical challenges even as the Missile Defense Agency juggles other major priorities, said a new report by the US Government Accountability Office.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Maxim Pyadushkin
The Sea Launch space program, halted by company owner Vladislav Filev after his main S7 Airlines business was devastated by COVID-19-related flight restrictions until better times, will now continue with new backing from the Russian government.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force is considering five candidate locations to call home for a future F-35 Foreign Military Sales (FMS) training center that can accommodate up to 36 jets.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
Russia’s MS-15 Progress resupply capsule successfully docked to the International Space Station’s (ISS) Russian segment on July 23, less than 3 1/2 hr. after launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy is making incremental progress on one of the USS Gerald R. Ford’s key new technologies: installing a sixth advanced weapons elevator (AWE) designed to efficiently move ordnance to the flight deck.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Molly McMillin
A Swedish medevac PC-24 jet completed its first flight July 22, marking the first of six Pilatus PC-24s destined for the Swedish Air Ambulance organization.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
British lawmakers have expressed concern that the government’s decision to invest in the failed OneWeb satellite constellation ignored input from advisers.
Space

By Graham Warwick
With the goal of demonstrating zero-carbon flight across the Atlantic within a generation, the UK government’s Jet Zero Council held its first meeting on July 22.
Emerging Technologies

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. has released evidence that Russia conducted a “nondestructive” test July 15 of a space-based, anti-satellite weapon (ASAT).
Space

By Tony Osborne
Leonardo has completed the first flight of its M-346 advanced jet trainer fitted with the company’s Grifo radar.
Aircraft & Propulsion