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NASA, Boeing standing down on Aug. 4 Starliner launch attempt
NASA and Boeing are standing down from the Aug. 4, launch attempt of the agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 to the...
By Aerotech News • August 4, 2021 6:51 pm
XQ-58A Valkyrie Tail #1 prepares for transfer to Air Force Museum
Air Force Research Laboratory engineers at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, have prepared the XQ-58A Valkyrie Tail #1 to be transferred…
By Rachel Simones • August 1, 2021 5:29 am
Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST: Researching overland supersonic flight
NASA’s aeronautical innovators are leading a government-industry team to collect data that could make supersonic flight over land possible, dramatically…
By Aerotech News • July 31, 2021 3:48 am
X-57 Maxwell Electric Propulsion Airplane is NASA’s first all-electric X-Plane
NASA’s X-57 ‘Maxwell’ is the agency’s first all-electric experimental aircraft, or X-Plane, and is NASA’s first crewed X-Plane in two…
By Aerotech News • July 30, 2021 1:42 pm
Joint Chiefs chairman: What will it take to remain world’s preeminent fighting...
The United States has always been a maritime nation, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Army Gen….
By David Vergun • August 4, 2021 3:08 pm
Lockheed Martin announces Greek industry team to support Hellenic Navy modernization
In support of the Hellenic Navy Modernization program, Lockheed Martin has entered into teaming agreements with key Greek industrial partners….
By Aerotech News • August 4, 2021 1:34 pm
U.S. Air Force delivers helicopters in C-17, bolsters Australian alliance
As part of the U.S. Defense Department’s Foreign Military Sales program, 9th Airlift Squadron aircrew from Dover Air Force Base,…
By Roland Balik • August 4, 2021 1:08 pm
AFRL’s drone killer, THOR will welcome new drone “hammer”
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Directed Energy Directorate is seeking partners to build a new counter electronics weapon system, to defend…
By 1st Lt. James Wymer • August 3, 2021 7:53 am
Newest X-Plane is Edwards’ NF-16D VISTA, now called X-62A
The NF-16D Variable In-flight Simulator Aircraft (VISTA) has been redesignated as the X-62A, effective June 14, 2021. The VISTA, which…
By Giancarlo Casem • August 2, 2021 3:34 pm
Airless tires undergo punishing evaluation at Army’s Tropic Regions Test Center
U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona and its constituent test centers test virtually every piece of equipment in the…
By Mark Schauer • August 2, 2021 2:57 pm
Signs of life on Mars? NASA’s Perseverance rover begins the hunt
By DC Agle, Karen Fox and Alana Johnson • July 22, 2021 10:25 am
NASA’s self-driving Perseverance Mars rover ‘takes the wheel’
By Andrew Good • July 7, 2021 11:48 am
Virgin Galactic gets FAA’s OK to launch customers to space
By Marcia Dunn • June 25, 2021 12:30 pm
Headlines – August 4, 2021
News Taliban commander who led attack on Afghan city was released from prison last year, officials say- U.S. pressed Kabul…
By Aerotech News • August 4, 2021 7:31 pm
Contract Briefs
U.S Army Pfizer Inc., N.Y., N.Y., was awarded a $3,500,000,001 firm-fixed-price contract for the procurement of 500 million doses of…
By Aerotech News • August 4, 2021 12:06 pm
