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France Orders Nuclear Cruise Missile, Eyeing 2035 Service Entry
1+ hour, 8+ min ago (108+ words) Aviation Week France Orders Nuclear Cruise Missile, Eyeing 2035 Service Entry Robert Wall is Executive Editor for Defense and Space. Based in London, he directs a team of military and space journalists across the U. S. , Europe and Asia-Pacific. France Orders Nuclear Cruise…...
LITEF Develops Resilient Receiver Against GPS Jamming, Spoofing
6+ hour, 54+ min ago (357+ words) Aviation Week LITEF Develops Resilient Receiver Against GPS Jamming, Spoofing BERLIN'LITEF, a Northrop Grumman subsidiary based in Freiburg, Germany, is developing technologies to make GPS receivers resilient to spoofing, in addition to the less challenging jamming threat. With the increasing…...
Composite Materials Have Yet To Be Used At Full Potential, Hexcel Says
1+ hour, 40+ min ago (130+ words) Aviation Week Composite Materials Have Yet To Be Used At Full Potential, Hexcel Says MFFD thermoplastic fuselage demonstrator section Thierry Dubois has specialized in aerospace journalism since 1997. An engineer in fluid dynamics from Toulouse-based Enseeiht, he covers the French commercial…...
Airbus Tests Aerodynamic Modifications For Helicopters
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (194+ words) The temporary aft fuselage fairings fitted to the Airbus Pioneer Lab on display at the Berlin ILA Air Show. To test the modifications, the company has produced composite fairings that can be scabbed onto the tail boom and rear fuselage....
Common Standard Opens Up CCA Sharing Between Australia, U. S.
4+ hour, 40+ min ago (49+ words) Aviation Week Common Standard Opens Up CCA Sharing Between Australia, U. S. A Boeing MQ-28 at this year's ILA Berlin air show. Steve covers military aviation, missiles and space for the Aviation Week Network, based in Washington, DC....
Europe's Launcher Demand Has Yet To Translate Into Orders, Panel Says
5+ hour, 24+ min ago (373+ words) Ariane 6 will provide 200 metric tons of launch capacity from next year, Ariane Group CEO Christophe Bruneau says. BERLIN'While the space sector is in agreement that launch demand will surge in the coming years, launcher manufacturers still need orders to secure…...
ESA Seeks European Footprints On The Moon After Artemis III
7+ hour, 30+ min ago (211+ words) NASA announced ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano as the pilot of Artemis III. BERLIN'The European Space Agency (ESA) sees Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano's role in the Artemis III mission next year as merely a step along the way to its larger goal…...
ESA Eyes Ariane 6 For Human Spaceflight
7+ hour, 55+ min ago (359+ words) BERLIN'As Europe pursues its goal of becoming more autonomous in space, the European Space Agency (ESA) is exploring whether its Ariane 6 rocket could to take astronauts to orbit. Ariane 6 is Europe's flagship heavy-lift rocket that has been used to deploy…...
Spotlight: RTX
8+ hour, 3+ min ago (81+ words) Aviation Week RTX's Pratt & Whitney Canada business is developing a new hybrid-electric propulsion technology designed to transform regional air travel. Anne Saint-Roch, Project Coordinator for PHARES, explains how the hybrid-electric concept works, its key objectives and the projected timings for…...
Skunk Works, Divergent Unveil 3 D-Printed One-Way Attack Drone
8+ hour, 43+ min ago (125+ words) Aviation Week Skunk Works, Divergent Unveil 3 D-Printed One-Way Attack Drone Divergent additively manufactured and robotically assembled Lockheed Martin's Dragonfly Group 3 drone. Graham leads Aviation Week's coverage of technology, focusing on engineering and technology across the aerospace industry, with a special…...