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Northrop Grumman has concluded a series of launch stress tests for a NASA-built space telescope slated for launch in 2021.

Rockwell Collins has provided systems and services to aid testing efforts under NASA‘s Unmanned Aircraft System Traffic Management program. The company said Monday it served as a UAS service supplier to help the agency manage safety of a UAS operating beyond visual line of sight during flight tests. The two-week test series demonstrated …

The Royal Air Force has collaborated with BAE Systems and Lockheed Martin to demonstrate the weapons handling system of F-35 short take-off vertical landing aircraft. BAE said Friday test pilots flew two F-35B fighters equipped with dummy Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missiles and Paveway IV laser-guided bombs during recent trials …

The U.S. Defense Department plans to use two F-35 fighter units for a demonstration aboard a USS Nimitz aircraft carrier in November, Defense News reported Thursday. Aaron Mehta writes Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, head of the F-35 Joint Program Office, said the agency has not yet determined if the F-35C …

A Lockheed Martin team has completed a series of tests to evaluate how the Orion spacecraft works to jettison its protective fairing panels. One of the spacecraft’s three fairings was heated to 200 degrees in order to simulate the temperature that Orion will experience while exiting the atmosphere, Lockheed announced Thursday. The …

A General Atomics Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft vehicle flew for 45 hours nonstop during the first of two endurance tests for the U.S. Army. That test was intended to simulate a reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition mission for the Improved Gray Eagle derivative UAV, General Atomics said Tuesday. The IGE will …

MBDA Systems has completed the testing of its upgraded Brimstone missile designed for the U.K. Ministry of Defense’s Brimstone 2 program, Defense World reported Monday. During the trials, the five missiles, which were fired against moving targets with a speed of up to 70 mph in various environments, range and …

NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne has completed tests on a three-dimensional printed rocket engine injector that the agency hopes can cut manufacturing costs by 70 percent. The NASA-Aerojet team of engineers used lasers that work to melt and fuse fine metallic powders into three-dimensional structures for the rocket engine injector, NASA …