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A hypersonic cruise missile co-developed by Raytheon Technologies has passed its second flight test in a row—an important milestone in the U.S. Department of Defense’s plan to field weapons that travel faster than five times the speed of sound.

DARPA has awarded BAE Systems’ FAST Labs™ research and development organization a $17.5 million contract for the GRYPHON program.

Europe’s first commercial satellite capable of being completely reprogrammed while in space is now in commercial use.

Northrop Grumman Corporation’s AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) multifunction sensor successfully detected and tracked multiple cruise missile threats simultaneously during a recent live-fire test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. 

Aitech Systems now offers the U-C8500, U-C8501 and U-C8502, three new 3U VPX cybersecurity-enabled single board computers (SBCs) aligned to The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) Technical Standard.

Babcock has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) Group and subsidiary ELTA Systems to provide a deep-find radar solution for the UK Ministry of Defence’s SERPENS programme.

A piece of space hardware set to make the long journey to begin orbiting around a water world in the outer Solar System recently finished its second round of testing this year at NASA’s Langley Research Center.