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By Irene Klotz
The first Space Launch System (SLS) rocket is about halfway through an eight-part Green Run test program at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, with a full-duration static firing of the booster’s four Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-25 engines expected in October, Boeing Vice President and SLS Program Manager John Shannon said on July 15.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A powerful new terrain following and avoidance radar for the Bell Boeing CV-22 has entered flight testing at Eglin AFB, Florida, the service announced on July 15.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Tony Osborne
The UK Royal Air Force is to test its information sharing technologies on one of its Airbus A330 Voyager tankers, turning the platform into an airborne communications node.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Steve Trimble
New threats posed by advances in heat-seeking missiles have prompted new development efforts by the U.S. Army and Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to protect helicopters and fighters.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Irene Klotz
Northrop Grumman’s Minotaur IV rocket ended a nearly three-year hiatus with a July 15 launch from Wallops Island, Virginia, to put a quartet of classified satellites into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Space

By Bill Carey
Passur Aerospace will integrate satellite-based aircraft tracking data from Aireon into its airline and airport operations management platform, the companies announced on July 14.
Connected Aerospace

By Tony Osborne
The UK has placed a £65 million ($81.5 million) order for its first three General Atomics MQ-9B Protector medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned air systems.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Irene Klotz
With bleak weather forecast, the United Arab Emirates’ Mars Hope mission, which was slated to lift off on July 17 from Japan’s Tenegashima Space Center, faces a second launch delay.
Space

By Bradley Perrett
China has begun volume production of a second version of the Avic Chengdu J-20 fighter, one fitted with thrust vectoring, the South China Morning Post reported.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Bradley Perrett
The first entirely Chinese mission to Mars may depart within two weeks, following arrival of the spacecraft at the Wenchang launch base on Hainan island.
Space

By Steve Trimble
A series of 25 flight tests with T408 engines on a CH-47 testbed was set to begin this summer, but the Army and industry demonstration team is still copping with the impact of the pandemic on a long list of pre-flight tasks.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The Defense Innovation Unit’s plans call for establishing an unmanned orbital outpost in low Earth orbit initially.
Space

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Defense

By Mark Carreau
The commercial human lander system is a critical part of the Trump administration’s directive that NASA accelerate its return to the surface of the Moon with human explorers from 2028 to 2024.
Space

By Lee Hudson
The House Appropriations Committee on July 14 approved by a vote of 30-22 its mark of the fiscal 2021 defense funding bill, which likely will be vetoed by President Donald Trump.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
Drone logistics system developer Matternet on July 14 announced the start of a second hospital delivery operation with UPS Flight Forward in North Carolina.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The twin-engine T-7A is designed to train future U.S. Air Force fighter pilots, but is demonstrating “fighter-like” performance itself, Boeing said.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Air Force has divulged additional details on how the future MQ-9 replacement will operate and may expand its mission set by featuring an air-to-air weapon.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Graham Warwick
Spanish electronics company Indra has completed initial flight tests of its Targus optionally piloted vehicle, a modified Tecnam P2006T light twin.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Self-piloted air taxis have taken off with the first passenger-carrying public flights by the EHang 216 autonomous air vehicle on aerial sightseeing trips in the coastal city of Yantai, China.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 asteroid sample return mission will drop off materials from the asteroid Ryugu as it passes by Earth on Dec. 6 Japan time.
Space

By Irene Klotz
Poor weather at Japan’s Tenegashima Space Center is prompting a delay of the United Arab Emirates’ Mars Mission to no earlier than July 17.
Space

AUSTRALIA will spend A$87m ($61m) improving facilities at the joint U.S.-Australian Space Surveillance Telescope at Naval Communications Station
Defense