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SATNUS, the joint-venture between GMV, Sener, and Tecnobit-Grupo Oesía, successfully completed the third flight test campaign in Europe’s Next-Generation Weapon System (NGWS) and Future Combat Air System (FCAS) program in Spain.

The test program included MCSD (MUT2 & Common Systems Demonstrator) platform validation, including flight segment and ground segment, and in-flight integration and testing of the Next Generation Autonomy Computer (NGAC).

SATNUS said that the successful end-to-end testing of  onboard and ground functional chains for multi-platform operations was the key achievement of the test program. The company will now on preparing for the final manned-unmanned teaming (MUT) demo flight campaign at the end of the NGWS Phase 1B technological demonstration.

“Throughout the campaign, which included three single and three dual platform flights, four NGAC prototypes have been integrated and flight tested as a core element mission payload, along with other MUT & Common Systems Demonstrator improvements in the flight and ground segments (e.g. communication system, flight termination system, avionics bay, wing-tip camera POD C2 system, distribution and information management system and mission planning station),” SATNUS said in a company statement.