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By Michael Bruno
The venture capital and private equity firehose fueling space startups continues unabated.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
The top official overseeing U.S. international weapons sales will take over Boeing’s defense, space and government sales, starting two days after she leaves government service.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Human Landing System strategy, a key element of the agency’s effort to establish a sustained human presence at the Moon and go on to Mars, may appear embattled.
Space

By Michael Bruno
Startup Space Perspective announced a $40 million venture capital fund raising on Oct. 14, claiming the largest round yet for a space tourism balloon company and coming months after a successful demonstration.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has rebuilt its State of Design capabilities after delegating the task to EASA almost two decades ago.
Safety, Ops & Regulation

By Graham Warwick
Germany’s Volocopter has partnered with Austrian commercial vehicle manufacturer Schwarzmuller to develop a mobile takeoff and landing platform for the VoloDrone electric unmanned cargo aircraft.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force wants industry to tell it how much of a shortfall there is in its tanker capacity to bolster a potential contract for commercial air refueling, with a deadline of June 2023.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Tony Osborne
Saab has committed to expanding its presence in Finland even if the company does not win the country’s HX fighter contest.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Maxim Pyadushkin
Satellite broadband provider OneWeb has successfully placed more than half of its constellation into low Earth orbit following the 11th launch of its campaign from Vostochny spaceport in Russia’s Far East at 5:40 a.m. EDT Oct. 14.
Commercial Space

By Tony Osborne
The Netherlands has formally opened its testing facilities for maintenance of the F-35 engine, the first such engine depot outside of the U.S.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Reliable Robotics has raised an additional $100 million in funding to continue development of its remotely operated aircraft system for cargo and passenger aircraft.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
Universal Hydrogen (UH2) has raised an additional $62 million in funding to take the startup through initial flight testing of its hydrogen fuel-cell propulsion conversion for regional turboprops.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Chen Chuanren
The trio will spend six months living on the Tianhe core module, which will be the longest-ever duration in space for a Chinese crew.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The incident comes days after the country requested a dozen more of the type under U.S. foreign military sales.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Brian Everstine
The Pentagon’s head of research and engineering wants hypersonics programs to become cheaper and show tangible successes in tests to convince doubters in the Pentagon that the weapons will be effective.
AUSA

By Brian Everstine
Heidi Grant, director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency who oversees U.S. military sales abroad, has announced she will step down after 15 months in the job.
AUSA

By Graham Warwick
China’s AutoFlight debuted its planned V1500M electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing air taxi at Airshow China 2021 in Zhuhai at the end of September.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Graham Warwick
Fuel-cell developer and green-hydrogen producer Plug Power has announced partnerships with both Airbus and startup Airflow to bring zero-emission hydrogen propulsion to aviation.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Steve Trimble
Leidos is offering the Bombardier Challenger 650 as a fleet replacement or contractor-operator service for the U.S. Army’s RC-12X Guardrail Common Sensor.
AUSA

By Michael Bruno
Commercial airliners have so far claimed immunity to cyberattacks, and Western militaries do not voice much fear that their aircraft, ships and tanks could be taken over by hackers yet. But a veteran-backed startup that offers to cybersecure their platforms’ operational technology has raised $20 million and is looking to grow.
AUSA

By Tony Osborne
Romania has selected the Polish-made Black Hawk helicopter to fulfill a requirement for a fleet of medium/heavy rotorcraft to be used by the country’s emergency services agency.
AUSA

By Irene Klotz
More than 50 years after portraying the fictional captain of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise, actor William Shatner joined two paying passengers and a Blue Origin vice president for the company’s second crewed flight to suborbital space.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Advanced versions of NASA’s Space Launch System, the world’s most power rocket, could be used in the long term to carry out a human Mars flyby and dispatch an interstellar probe to study the realm beyond the Solar System, experts say.
Space

By Graham Warwick
The first announced application for EP Systems’ EPiC lithium-ion battery module, the eDA40 is designed for use as an electric circuit trainer.
Emerging Technologies

By Michael Bruno
Liberty Hall Capital Partners sold the Vancouver, Washington-based supplier to Arcline Investment Management, the parties announced late Oct. 12.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain