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Vibration tests are underway on a key component of NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology aircraft that not only gives the pilot a virtual window on the airspace ahead, but also graphical flight data.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded US$31.9 million by DARPA for further development of a ground-launched hypersonic missile. The contract allows the defense company to begin the Weapon System Integration program for the boost-to-glide weapon system.

NASA's X-59 Quiet SuperSonic Technology (QueSST) supersonic X-plane has passed its final development milestone and is going on to final assembly at Lockheed Martin's Skunk Works in Plamdale, California.

Lockheed Martin has completed a successful test of its Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) on the first go. Being developed for the US Army's PrSM program, the next-generation long-range missile was launched from the White Sands Missile Range.

Lockheed Martin's Advanced Test High Energy Asset (ATHENA) laser weapon, which is being developed for the US Air Force, engaged and destroyed multiple drone threats in a recent field test at a US government test range at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

Blue Origin has entered into a partnership with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Draper to design a lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program.

After 150 hours of envelope expansion flights, the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter has been cleared by the US Air Force for initial an production run of 113 helicopters.

NASA has signed contracts with Lockheed Martin for six Orion spacecraft, with the option for another six to be ordered by 2030 for a potential total of 12.

Lockheed Martin, the Missile Defense Agency and the USAF connected an F-35, U-2 spy-plane, and a ground station as part of a missile defense exercise.

NASA recently tested a microphone that's 30 miles long to measure the acoustic signature of the quiet supersonic X-59 X-plane.

Lockheed Martin says that it has completed the final assembly phase​ of the first full Orion spacecraft. At a ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing, US Vice President Mike Pence made the public announcement at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.

The US Air Force's next rescue helicopter took to the skies for the first time on Friday. Based on the venerable UH-60M Black Hawk​, the Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter​ will replace the HH-60G, which entered service in 1982.