Gallery: Aerospace & Defense Roundup: November 22, 2021
November 22, 2021
BigBear.Ai, Terran Orbital Team To Bring AI To Smallsat EO Constellation
Terran Orbital, a small satellite startup that is about to go public, and BigBear.ai have signed a partnership. Credit: BigBear.ai
Skydweller, Telefonica Partner To Expand Broadband
Solar-powered aircraft developer Skydweller Aero has partnered with Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica to explore the use of its long-endurance unmanned aircraft to expand cellular coverage. Credit: Skydweller Aero
China Completes Mach 8 Hypersonic Wind Tunnel
China’s AVIC Aerodynamics Research Institute says it has completed construction of a new hypersonic wind tunnel that is reportedly able to simulate speeds from Mach 4 to Mach 8. Credit: AVIC
NASA To Attempt First Asteroid Redirect With DART
The mission is a bold attempt to demonstrate whether a spacecraft traveling at high velocity can slam into an asteroid with enough kinetic energy to knock it off course—an ability that could one day enable humanity to counter objects that pose an impact threat to Earth. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL
Flytrex Lands $40M To Fund U.S. Expansion Of Food-By-Drone Service
Flytrex’s delivery system uses a multicopter drone that flies autonomously beyond line of sight and hovers to safely lower the package by wire to the customer in the ground. Credit: Walmart
The Weekly Debrief: New Data Dump Shows AIM-260 Flight Test Activity
A newly discovered data dump by the U.S. Air Force last August discloses the first details about the progress in flight test of the secretive Lockheed Martin AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile. Credit: U.S. Air Force
China’s AutoFlight To Certify EVTOL Air Taxi In Europe
Chinese electric vertical takeoff and landing startup AutoFlight has identified European technology investor Lukasz Gadowski as the source of the $100 million Series A investment announced in September. Credit: AutoFlight
Dubai Launches Drone Transportation Program
Dubai has launched a program to enable drone transportation by creating an infrastructure to test unmanned aircraft in designated areas and develop legislation to enable their implementation. Credit: Volocopter
Germany’s EMagic Builds On EVTOL Legacy
The 10 years that separate the first hover flights of the Volocopter VC1 and eMagic Aircraft’s eMagic One illustrate the advances made in a decade by electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing technology. Credit: eMagic Aircraft
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