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By Graham Warwick
R&D company UAVOS has revealed an improved version of Saudi Arabia’s Saker-1 medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aircraft system developed with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Osiris-Rex asteroid sample return spacecraft descended to its lowest altitude yet over the asteroid Bennu earlier this week to gather high-resolution imagery of its primary sample collection site.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference scheduled for March 16-20 has been canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus.
Space

By Bradley Perrett, Steve Trimble
MHI does not expect the planned suspension of assembly operations to affect the delivery schedule.
Defense

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Organizers on March 4 canceled the World ATM Congress planned in Madrid next week, citing the COVID-19 outbreak. Hosted by the Netherlands-based Civil

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries has shut down a final assembly and check out (FACO) facility for the Lockheed Martin F-35A in Nagoya, Japan, for one week

By Graham Warwick
Northrop Grumman subsidiary SpaceLogistics has signed on as DARPA’s commercial partner for the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites program.
Commercial Space

By Guy Norris
Developers of the revived Stratolaunch carrier aircraft project aim to restart flight tests of the giant twin-fuselage mother ship in September as part of plans to provide a launch platform for rocket-powered hypersonic test vehicles.
Aircraft & Propulsion

Startup Jetoptera is reporting progress in its collaboration with General Electric in development of its Fluidic Propulsion System (FPS).
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency is close to launching the competitive phase for the Next Generation Interceptor program, said Vice Adm. Jon Hill, the agency’s director, on March 4.
Missile Defense & Weapons

The Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano is a tandem-seat turboprop light attack aircraft developed from the EMB-312A Tucano, a basic flight trainer with secondary light attack capabilities.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Michael Boyle has assumed operational control of the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) before the service begins flight deck certification of the nation’s newest aircraft carrier.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy has ditched its plan for a dual-phased delivery of the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) and instead will use a single-phased approach, meaning the entire ship will be delivered at the same time.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Lee Hudson
The U.S. Navy made a “reality-based” decision to pause MQ-4C Triton production in the fiscal 2021 budget request, according to the service’s acquisition executive.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Bill Carey
Satellite communications terminal supplier Isotropic Systems will license components of its optical multi-beamforming antenna technology to aerospace and defense companies to build products “capable of unleashing a new era of inflight connectivity.”
Space

By Graham Warwick
The GoFly team is considering its next step after high winds on Feb. 27-29 prevented the final fly-off between personal flying devices competing for a $1 million grand prize.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
German startup Fraundorfer Aeronautics is flight testing a technology demonstrator for its Tensor 600X compound gyrocopter, a two-seat personal air
Advanced Air Mobility

By Michael Bruno
AE Industrial Partners, a private equity investor specializing in aerospace, defense and government services, said it has acquired Adcole Maryland Aerospace, a design, test and manufacturer of satellite parts and smallsats.
Space

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Army will “very soon” demonstrate a ground-launched ballistic missile with a range greater than 500 km, the previous limit set by a now-defunct arms control treaty, Gen. Mike Murray said on March 4.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
Startup Joby Aviation will be the only electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing developer to provide a vehicle for flight testing in NASA’s urban air mobility Grand Challenge development testing event this year.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. State Department approved a pending sale of eight Boeing KC-46 tankers to Israel on March 3, moving the deal closer to signing on the day of an Israeli presidential election.
Defense

By Bill Carey
The public comment period for the FAA’s Remote Identification of Unmanned Aircraft Systems draft regulation closed just before midnight on March 2, with 51,006 comments counted.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Maxim Pyadushkin
S7 Space Corp. has started to relocate the Sea Launch complex from Long Beach, California, to Russia’s Far East.
Space