Defense Daily reports, “While the Space Force has used NASA’s site at Wallops Island, Va., to launch niche missions, including small-satellite orbital and sounding rocket hypersonic suborbital launches, the service may need to ensure that it is able to ramp up launches there significantly, the head of U.S. Space Command said on Thursday. Wallops “has been an amazing story over the last decade,” Space Force Gen. Stephen Whiting told a Senate Armed Services Committee.”
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US Sees Uptick in Fatal Business Aviation Accidents in First Half of 2023
Aviation International News reports there were four fatal crashes of US-registered business jets in the first half of 2023, resulting in nine fatalities. There were “zero such fatalities in all of 2022. Separately, two people were killed in one non-U.S-registered special missions business jet accident in the first six months, compared with six who perished in one non-U.S-registered charter jet crash in the same period last year.”
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