Space

By Jen DiMascio
Hunting hypersonic production capacity; Boeing’s Chinook exports; Turkey tests air-to-air missile; and Northrop’s Rooster rideshare.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Mark Carreau
NASA and its partners promise there will be much more to come from the just-commissioned James Webb Space Telescope, following the release of its first five science images on July 12.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Aerospace company Thales Group, mobile phone chip maker Qualcomm Technologies and telecommunications company Ericsson plan to test and validate low Earth orbit satellite-based 5G network technologies for mobile phones.
Connectivity

By Mark Carreau
President Biden unveiled the first image marking the start of the James Webb Space Telescope’s long-anticipated initial science campaign on July 11 that featured a stirring, full-color view of the now-vast universe from its earliest and not previously witnessed era.
Space

By Garrett Reim
The U.S. Space Force has awarded Northrop Grumman Space Systems a $22.1 million contract for the Rapid On-orbit Space Technology Evaluation Ring (Rooster), a ridesharing spacecraft that will be used to demonstrate on-orbit refueling technology and other prototypes.
Space

By Graham Warwick, Guy Norris
As NASA invites bids to build and fly its Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, technology editor Graham Warwick and senior editor Guy Norris hear how this aircraft will differ from the agency’s prior X-planes. They talked to Rich Wahls, NASA’s newly appointed Sustainable Flight National Partnership mission integration manager at the AIAA Aviation 2022 conference in Chicago.
Sustainability

By Garrett Reim
Carnegie Mellon University has launched an initiative to study a distributed computing architecture for nanosatellites.
Commercial Space

By Garrett Reim
Novel algorithm is behind startup’s claimed breakthrough
Commercial Space

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aerospace

By Garrett Reim, Steve Trimble
The Defense Innovation Unit’s (DIU) Hybrid Space Architecture program has issued several contracts to companies to develop and demonstrate a space-based network architecture for communications across commercial and government satellites in multiple orbits.
Commercial Space

By Michael Bruno
Stellar Solutions, a global aerospace and systems engineering services firm, has unveiled Stellar Ventures, a woman-led venture capital firm investing in the next generation of space entrepreneurs, the company said July 7.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s small Capstone mission satellite successfully carried out a delayed midday trajectory correction maneuver on July 7.
Space

By Mark Carreau
The European Space Agency (ESA), its commercial partners and potential customers are eagerly awaiting the inaugural launch of the Vega-C rocket.
Commercial Space

By Brian Everstine
A Minotaur II+ rocket, the first launch test supporting the development of the Mk21A re-entry vehicle, exploded shortly after launch late July 6 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.
Space

By Jen DiMascio
U.S. Air Force seeds new tanker competition; Aerojet’s new board; Europe seeks airlifter; and Northrop chooses Airbus satellite bus.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Irene Klotz
Virgin Galactic has signed an agreement to partner with Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences to build two new White Knight Two jets to carry its air-launched passenger suborbital spaceships.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
Ground control teams have re-established communications with NASA’s Capstone lunar mission, the space agency reported July 6.
Space

By Garrett Reim
L3Harris plans to invest €11.2 million ($11.4 million) in Mynaric in exchange for 7.2% of the laser communications company’s shares.
Space

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory is testing its experimental receivers for the upcoming Navigation Technology Satellite-3 as it is integrating the satellite ahead of its planned launch next year.
Space

By Chen Chuanren
The Singaporean Defense Ministry has played down the possibility of setting up a space division within its military in the near future, but nevertheless is closely studying the development of novel satellite technology, especially in the field of small to nano satellites.
Space

By Irene Klotz
The newly deployed Capstone lunar spacecraft has been unable to communicate with ground control teams, NASA said July 5.
Space

By Garrett Reim
Northrop Grumman has selected Airbus US Space & Defense as its satellite bus supplier for the Space Development Agency’s (SDA) Tranche 1 Transport Layer (T1TL) prototype constellation.
Space

By Tony Osborne
Norway’s Kongsberg is to purchase a majority holding in Lithuanian small satellite integrator and bus manufacturer NanoAvionics.
Commercial Space

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment (Capstone) small satellite successfully separated from its orbital Photon propulsion stage early July 4, beginning a pioneering journey to near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon.
Space

By Irene Klotz
With a mostly successful tanking test complete, NASA sets its sights on Moon rocket’s first flight.
Space