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Northrop Grumman is a major US aerospace and defense company that builds military aircraft, missiles, satellites, and space systems for government clients.
Lockheed Martin unveiled PAC-3 Edge, a Patriot-family interceptor it plans to test in 2027 and field in 2031, built on a new seeker. The design keeps the Army's existing launchers and battle-command system, so a crew would field new rounds inside hardware already in service.
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NASA sent 12 student-built heat-shield test capsules down with a trash-filled Cygnus XL cargo ship that breaks apart on its planned reentry. The capsules eject during the breakup, so Moon and Mars materials still in development get flight data without a launch of their own.
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Boeing won the Navy's $20 billion F/A-XX contract and now holds both US sixth-generation fighter programs. Investors have to judge whether a company still repairing its jetliner and space programs can build two new fighters on cost and on schedule.
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Taiwan has received the first two of 66 F-16 Block 70 jets it ordered from the US in 2019 for $7.76 billion, after a six-week stop in Hawaii. The other 64 are due by the end of 2026, on a schedule that has already slipped.
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Northrop Grumman flew its uncrewed YFQ-48A Talon Blue from taxi to landing with no remote human intervention. Air Force buyers can now judge the jet's autonomy in flight, while the low-cost production Northrop promises is still a claim on paper.
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NASA's Crew-12, four astronauts from NASA, ESA and Roscosmos, is due back from the space station in early October. The agency's look back sets out what the crew's experiments in drug crystallisation, bone repair and quantum physics were built to test.
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NASA's Swift observatory, in orbit since 2004, will re-enter by year's end after the Katalyst spacecraft sent to boost it developed faults in orbit. NASA now presents the year-long effort as practice for fast commercial satellite servicing.
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The GHOST-R prototype squeezes production, payload integration, test and delivery into two years. Irvine's TRL-11 supplies the optics, and the spacecraft comes from the company whose GSSAP satellites already watch GEO.
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Hanwha and Lockheed Martin UK swapped the Redback's 30mm cannon for a CTA International 40mm and put an air defence command system inside the turret, and the two firms say they are pursuing NATO and allied customers.
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Anthropic's June decision to keep Fable usage logs for 30 days has turned zero data retention into a procurement gate at Nvidia, Booz Allen and Palantir. The metadata channel stays open under the clause they are demanding.
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A completed critical design review moves the Hawkeye's mission-systems refresh into integration. The architecture claim, not the sensor claim, is the part worth tracking.
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Northrop's PGK E5 puts anti-jamming into a 155 mm guidance kit that keeps the same fit and form as fielded stock. First deliveries are expected in early 2028, and the accuracy claim comes from Northrop's own testing.
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The $100 million Propulsion Innovation Center in Elkton is one part of a build-out that takes solid rocket motor production from about 13,000 in 2024 to more than 25,000 by 2029, roughly 14% growth a year.
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A June disclosure released Aug. 22 logs 1,051 securities transactions in Trump's accounts. The value bands are so wide the filing's own total lands anywhere between $78.1 million and $263.1 million.
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The gain crystal, not the surrounding hardware, has capped high-energy fusion lasers. SYNOPTICS says parts from this boule feed DESY's 200-joule-class module work.
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Eight months after a failed engine reignition destroyed its first attempt, LandSpace landed Zhuque-3's stainless-steel first stage in Gansu. The fix cycle is the story, not the milestone.
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Kratos' XQ-58A flew electronic warfare with Marine F-35s in April and changed hands between two separate ground control systems mid-mission. The second part is the harder problem.
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Katalyst's LINK is trying to save a NASA telescope after tumbling out of control. Northrop Grumman's servicing vehicle reaches its first geostationary customer in about a year.
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Shareholder returns at Lockheed, RTX, Northrop and General Dynamics fell about $1.5 billion in one quarter after a January order tied buybacks to delivery performance.
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The August 12 partnership promises protection for data at rest, in transit and in use, plus a five-fold performance gain. The announcement names no mechanism and no baseline.
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