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By Mark Carreau
NASA is looking at mid-July to complete an assessment of when it can retarget the launch of the cost and technically challenged James Webb Space Telescope.
Space

By Irene Klotz
California-based Relativity Space, which is developing a 3D-printed small satellite launcher, has signed a contract with Iridium to launch up to six of its Iridium Next ground spares, the companies announced June 24.
Space

News in brief
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals
Defense

By Irene Klotz
Redwire, a venture capital-backed family of space technology companies, has added Florida-based Made In Space to its portfolio, the companies announced June 23.
Commercial Space

By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon’s chief technology officer, Mike Griffin, and his deputy, Lisa Porter, will step down from their respective roles next month and plan to set up a private venture, according to a Defense Department official.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Tony Osborne
Switzerland’s Kopter Group has resumed flight-test activities in Sicily after a three-month hiatus caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Russia’s industrial giant Rostec Corp. is speeding up the restructuring of United Aircraft Corp. (UAC) to increase its efficiency. Since the beginning of June, it has changed the top management at several UAC key subsidiaries and speeded the merger of Sukhoi and MiG jet makers into a single combat aircraft division.
Marketplace

By Tony Osborne
Electric flight startup ZeroAvia has completed its first electrically driven flight in the UK as it gears up its operations to demonstrate a 250-300-nm flight with its hydrogen fuel cell technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Molly McMillin
About 250 Textron Aviation employees received 60-day layoff notices June 23, including 70 in Wichita, as the company adjusts to the economic uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, the company told employees.
Marketplace

By Mark Carreau
The target of two joint upcoming NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) planetary defense demonstration missions—the Double Asteroid Re-direction Test (DART) and Hera—has received an official name, Dimorphos.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Tupolev has released specifications and a seven-year schedule for completing design of a 30-seat, supersonic business jet, which includes flying a testbed aircraft possibly derived from the Tu-160 bomber.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Navy on June 22 delivered the first Bell Boeing CMV-22 Osprey to an operational squadron at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
The British Royal Navy has declared an initial operating capability (IOC) for its amphibious assault fleet of triple-engine Merlin Mk. 4 transport helicopters.
Aircraft & Propulsion

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

By Molly McMillin
As Textron Aviation plans to restructure and reduce its workforce, company officials have asked the Machinists union to open contract negotiations early.
Marketplace

By Tony Osborne
Eleven NATO nations have signed up to develop a multinational flight training initiative to support the tutoring of fast-jet, rotary-wing and unmanned air systems pilots.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Steve Trimble
The Space Development Agency must submit a detailed plan to use commercial satellites as a service in the future National Defense Space Architecture, a panel of lawmakers say.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Manned-unmanned teaming is the future of air combat, and maybe not so far away.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Guy Norris
Under a Space Act Agreement with NASA, space company Virgin Galactic is to develop a training program for private astronaut missions to the International Space Station.
Space

By Mark Carreau
Startup Space Perspective is looking to early 2021 to begin test flights of a high-altitude balloon with a pressurized capsule from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), with an eye toward carrying commercial passengers and research payloads.
Space

By Steve Trimble
Frustrated by declining funding for advanced technology programs, a key U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee hinted on June 21 that control of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) could be stripped from the Pentagon’s Research and Engineering (R&E) branch led by Undersecretary Michael Griffin.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
A panel of U.S. lawmakers wants the U.S. Navy to start integrating a hypersonic missile on the Zumwalt-class DDG 1000 destroyer fleet next year.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Bradley Perrett
Japan is considering installing at least one Aegis system on a pontoon, following the decision on June 15 to halt a program to build two batteries on shore, the Jiji news agency reports.
Missile Defense & Weapons

Selected U.S. military contracts for June 15 U.S. AIR FORCE The Boeing Co., St. Louis, has been awarded a $13,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite
Defense