The Chinese understand that what will make or break their industry is what happens in the middle of the value chain, at the component and subsystem levels.
Just months before the U.S. Air Force is slated to choose an industry team to begin developing a new aircraft, the service appears to be considering scrapping the program altogether.
Satellite developer Cloud Constellation has formally selected Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket to deploy the first 12 spacecraft forming its initial SpaceBelt constellation of space-based cloud storage data centers.
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