A video released on July 22 by the contender for the U.S. Army’s Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) shows the SB-1 lifting to a hover an external load that the Sikorsky-Boeing described as 5,300 lb.
The same day Blue Origin made its first human spaceflight, sending four passengers into suborbital space, the Federal Aviation Administration issued new FAA Commercial Space Astronaut Wings eligibility requirements.
Bristow Helicopters, the provider of the UK’s Search and Rescue helicopter service, is set to operate a rotary-wing unmanned air system for SAR duties this summer.
The UK Ministry of Defense has completed its planned purchase of the General Atomics Protector medium-altitude, long-endurance uncrewed air system, signing an order for 13 aircraft.
Ad Astra Rocket Co. has reached another milestone in its long-running quest to develop an electric propulsion capability to hasten the human exploration of Mars and other space activities.
Russia has successfully launched a new module for the International Space Station (ISS), lofting the 20-ton Nauka multipurpose scientific lab atop a Proton-M heavy launcher at 5:58 p.m. Moscow time (10:58 a.m. EDT) July 21 from Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan.
The Japanese Defense Ministry’s Acquisition Technology and Logistics Agency has launched a feasibility study of acquisition methods to replace Kawasaki T-4 intermediate jet trainers, Subaru T-7 basic trainers and ground-based training systems.
German aerospace center DLR plans to develop a full-scale flight test version of an advanced, lightweight hybrid rocket engine following successful ground runs of a prototype at its Trauen site near Hamburg.
The International Space Station’s four U.S. segment crewmembers boarded their SpaceX Crew-2 Dragon capsule early July 21 to relocate the capsule from the Harmony module forward to the Harmony zenith docking port, freeing a parking spot for the arrival of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner.
Riding a wave of military modernization programs in the Asia-Pacific region, Boeing says it is seeing potential for new rotary-wing orders and upgrades, especially for AH-64 Apaches and CH-47 Chinooks.
Russian government and industry officials formally presented the Sukhoi Checkmate fighter mockup to President Vladimir Putin on the first day of the MAKS Airshow on July 20, and told reporters the Light Tactical Aircraft (LTA) has secured an “anchor customer.”
France and the UK will continue to collaborate on research and development for future missile technology through a renewed agreement with missile manufacturer MBDA.
