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By Graham Warwick
Japan Air Lines is to conduct a drone delivery demonstration with Yabu City, in Hyogo Province, and service provider Terra Drone.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Qatar’s Gulf Helicopters has emerged as the launch customer for the Safran Aneto-powered version of the Leonardo AW189K super-medium twin-engine helicopter.
Business Aviation

By Mark Carreau
A European Space Agency-led collaboration with NASA, the $1.5 billion Solar Orbiter mission, is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral.
Defense

By Tony Osborne
Swiss helicopter manufacturer Kopter has unveiled the final configuration for production models of its SH09 single-engine light helicopter.
Business Aviation

By Graham Warwick
Bell has announced a series of upgrades for its commercial helicopters as it emerges from another good year for deliveries, buoyed by demand for its light turbine rotorcraft.
Business Aviation

By Tony Osborne
Safran has hinted that a future Airbus light helicopter could feature a hybrid-electric propulsion system.
Business Aviation

Selected U.S. military contracts from the past week
Defense

News in brief
Defense

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

By Irene Klotz
NASA has selected privately owned Axiom Space of Houston to provide a commercial habitation module to be attached to the International Space Station.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Two Northrop Grumman MQ-4Cs have officially started the high-altitude UAS' first operational deployment, the U.S. Navy says.
Defense

By Graham Warwick
Honeywell has partnered with U.S. startup Jetoptera to explore fluidic propulsion for military cargo and surveillance UAS.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. Air Force has “walked back” portions of a $30 billion reinvestment strategy based on objections by combatant commanders, chief of staff Gen. David Goldfein said on Jan. 27.
Defense

By Sean Broderick
A new mandate to de-pair high-time Rolls-Royce Trent 1000s related to unexplained engine compressor surge issues is not expected to lead to more Boeing 787 groundings, the manufacturer said.
Air Transport

By Mark Carreau
NASA has selected 16 wide-ranging science investigations and technology demonstrations for launch next year as the first payloads to be delivered to the Moon’s surface by two of 14 companies qualified by the agency for lunar missions under NASA’s $2.6 billion, 10-year Commercial Lunar Payload Services programs.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Ad Astra Rocket Co. is poised to bring the company’s Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket electric propulsion system to a Technical Readiness Level of 6.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
Poland’s government will sign a $4.6 billion contract for 32 Lockheed Martin F-35As on Jan. 31, Minister of National Defense Mariusz Błaszczak announced Jan. 27.
Defense

By Steve Trimble
The U.S. defense research agency awarded Northrop a $13 million, one-year contract under the Glide Breaker program.
Defense

By Mark Carreau
Astronauts on the fourth spacewalk to repair the $2 billion Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer found signs of a leak.
Defense

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Bell will conduct the first of several operational demonstrations of its APT-70 cargo drone with a competitive flyoff under the U.S. Navy’s Tactical

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Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

By Jen DiMascio
Japan is boosting its space exploration budget.
Defense

By Lee Hudson
The whistleblower contends Lockheed Martin has been applying a chemical to seal the C-130J’s integral fuel tank that may have long-term health consequences for those applying it and others nearby.
Defense