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NASA’s new lunar lander competition heats up with Blue Origin, Northrop Grumman

NASA’s latest lunar lander competition round saw a huge shake-up of the team. In the second Human Landing Systems (HLS) bidding process, former collaborators Northrop Grumman and Blue Origin are now part of different teams vying for the lunar transport of future astronauts under the Artemis program. And this time, SpaceX is not among the …

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Bell Textron’s Valor wins Army FLRAA competition to replace Black Hawk

The V-280 Valor, Bell’s entry for the military’s future long-range assault aircraft, in flight. (Bell) WASHINGTON — After years of development, prototyping and test flights, the Army today announced that the Bell Textron Valor tiltrotor won its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition to be the successor to the aging UH-60 Black Hawk and a …

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