Defense and Space

News in brief

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

The U.S. Air Force’s nuclear weapons managers have started researching a key technology for an intercontinental range hypersonic glider.

U.S. Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett notified the Oregon Air National Guard Aug. 14 that its Portland base will be the first to replace its aging F-15C/D Eagles with the updated F-15EXs.

AERY AVIATION, VA completed ground/flight testing of modified GIV with special mission equipment, and now plans series of secondary flights for USAF

The ninth and final Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency H-II Transfer cargo vehicle departed the International Space Station Aug. 18.

Universal rocket modules for the Angara A5 heavy launch vehicle have been sent by train to the Plesetsk military spaceport in preparation for the rocket family's first liftoff since 2014.

The mission set a SpaceX record for reuse of a Falcon 9 first stage.

Program Dossier: CH-53K

Brief news items of interest to aerospace & defense professionals.

Florida-based Cromulence will help the U.S. Air Force cope with rising cyber threats to satellites. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the

Development of the high-altitude long-endurance system has been rocky from the start.

Deputy Defense Secretary David Norquist formed the task force Aug. 4 and directed the U.S. Navy to spearhead the effort.

Despite years of false starts, the Pentagon is not ready to give up on high-altitude pseudo-satellites just yet.

AERO PRECISION/KELLSTROM DEFENSE adopted ALLCLEAR as new name.

BOEING inducted 20th US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet into Service Life Modification (SLM) program that extends aircraft life from 6,000 to 7,500 flight

The board will assess the joint effort with the European Space Agency to retrieve and return to Earth samples of rock cores drilled and preserved by the Perseverance Mars 2020 rover.

Ask the Editors: Short-term defense spending appears stable, but cuts over the next five years may delay Air Force programs such as NGAD.

Following their successful Demo-2 test flight, NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than Oct. 23 for the first operational commercial launch of astronauts to the International Space Station.

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

FINLAND’s HX fighter competition plans fourth round of negotiations and performance evaluation events in September-November. Requests for final bids

This week the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency hosts its virtual Electronics Resurgence Initiative summit (eri-summit.darpa.mil), with

Companies will have to ramp up internal R&D spending to keep pace.

An Ariane 5 rocket carrying the second Northrop Grumman Mission Extension Vehicle along with U.S. and Japanese telecommunications satellites successfully lifted off from Kourou, French Guiana, late Aug. 15.

The F-35A’s onboard sensor fusion prevents the Air Force right now from widely implementing a live, virtual and constructed training format, a top US Air Force commander says.