While the issue disrupted deliveries to Boeing and impacted revenues, negative impacts will be partially offset by Spirit’s accelerating 737 production line.
The ban affects any drone with beyond-line-of-sight range, endurance greater than 30-min., takeoff weight of more than 7 kg or an empty weight more than 4 kg.
The last of Northrop Grumman's Antares rockets equipped with Russian NPO Energomash engines and Ukrainian Yuzhmash-developed parts launched late on Aug. 1.
Virgin Galactic's spaceplane VSS Unity’s cockpit and structure were enhanced for higher-tempo operations and were tested in June on its first commercial flight.
The U.S. Army has combined Tranche 2 and Tranche 3 for the Short-Range Reconnaissance program into a single production order of 12,000 drones over 10 years.
The B612 Foundation has made publicly available a nongovernment “precovery service” for the confirmation and orbital refining of asteroid trajectories.
