These technologies are helping optimize components, fabricate novel shapes and integrate data into design, manufacturing and maintenance.
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The most prestigious and largest international gathering of Air Force leaders and industry counterparts anywhere in the world is back. Focusing on tomorrow’s Air Force moving beyond traditional Joint operations, DIACC21 features leading-edge insights and the latest experiences in moving toward a more integrated and interdependent Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) construct.
Pratt & Whitney will start altitude tests on its experimental XA101 engine in early 2022, though the CEO of parent company Raytheon Technologies warns it would be a difficult and expensive effort to install it on F-35As as some lawmakers are calling for and the U.S. Air Force is exploring.
Kratos OBSS design, USAF performs first operational tests by F-15EXs, F-15Es and F-15Cs, NASA, SpaceX assessing Dragon prelaunch toilet concern and more. A roundup of aerospace, space and defense news.
Increasing commercial pressures force space missions to keep costs down. Gone are the days of expensive bespoke radiation-hardened products; now, commercial off-the-shelf development and operational flight instrumentation for space launchers and vehicles is the norm.
Regulation continues to be the primary challenge facing the AAM environment. The adoption of UAM vehicles in the United States has demanded a new approach to how regulators embrace advanced modes of transport.
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