For the second time in just more than a month, the U.K. government has been forced to request help from NATO allies to provide maritime patrol aircraft to hunt for a suspected foreign submarine.
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory team behind NASA’s Messenger mission – the first spacecraft to circle the planet Mercury – has devised a strategy to extend unprecedented low orbit operations by several weeks.
The U.S. Navy sent the destroyer DDG 102 USS Sampson and Littoral Combat Ship LCS 3 USS Fort Worth to help with the maritime search following the AirAsia Flight 8501 tragedy.
The South Korean and Japanese defense ministries and the U.S. Defense Department finalized a trilateral information-sharing arrangement last month concerning the nuclear and missile threats posed by North Korea.
A debate about the need for global flight tracking and data streaming is back on the airwaves after AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared from radar on Dec. 28 and the Airbus A320’s emergency locator transmitters failed to emit signals before entering the Java Sea.
Airbus is urging Japan to base its next army utility helicopter on the X4, an advanced rotorcraft that the European manufacturer is developing for the civil market.
The South Korean and Japanese defense ministries and the U.S. Defense Department finalized a trilateral information-sharing arrangement earlier this month concerning the nuclear and missile threats posed by North Korea.
Koppillil Radhakrishnan has retired as chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization after leading the space agency to its greatest glory, including a successful mission to Mars.
Airbus and Boeing are jointly attempting to unseat Lockheed Martin from South Korea’s KF-X indigenous fighter program, offering technology from Europe that could not be supplied from U.S. sources, industry officials say.
An India parliamentary panel on defense has asked the government to expedite the procurement of all pending fighter aircraft as the country’s air force squadron strength has dwindled to 25 from the sanctioned 42 fighters.
The National Engineering Forum (NEF) reports a wide-ranging response to the early efforts of a multiyear campaign to increase engineering awareness in the U.S., as well as the organization’s goal of developing a more-diverse, better-qualified talent pool to fill the need for future professionals.
The wheeled version of India’s homegrown unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) Nishant, called “Panchi” or Bird, has made its first flight, joining the likes of Global Hawk and Predator.
The first of four Boeing KC-46A engineering, manufacturing and development (EMD) aircraft made its first flight from Paine Field, Everett, Washington, on Dec. 28, starting the clock ticking toward the planned delivery of the first 18 new 767-based tankers to the U.S. Air Force by August 2017.
Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), the intended prime contractor, may select between the two of them as early as the first quarter of 2015, but the choice will need approval from the defense ministry. The candidate base designs are the Airbus EC155 B1 and the AgustaWestland AW169.
The U.S. Navy and Northrop Grumman successfully flew the MQ-8C Fire Scout off the DDG 109 USS Jason Dunham earlier this month off the Virginia coast, marking the first flight of the unmanned helicopter from a destroyer.
Four U.S. companies selected from an initial field of 18 will get easier access to NASA resources under unfunded Space Act agreements designed to smooth the path for development of commercial capabilities that the space agency can use as it maps a human path to Mars.
IMP AEROSPACE delivered first of three RCAF CP-140Ms upgraded with Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) satcom system. BOEING ST. LOUIS broke ground on 367,000-sq.-ft. composites center to manufacture 777X wing/empennage parts starting in 2017. ESTERLINE CORP. had $102.4m net income on $2.05b sales for year ended Oct. 31 vs. $164.7m on $1.89b a year ago.
IMP AEROSPACE delivered first of three RCAF CP-140Ms upgraded with Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) satcom system. BOEING ST. LOUIS broke ground on 367,000-sq.-ft. composites center to manufacture 777X wing/empennage parts starting in 2017. ESTERLINE CORP. had $102.4m net income on $2.05b sales for year ended Oct. 31 vs. $164.7m on $1.89b a year ago.
In observance of the year-end holiday season, the Dec. 24 issue of Aerospace Daily & Defense Report will be the last for the year. The next issue will be dated Jan. 6, 2015. In the interim, subscribers can visit the Aviation Week Intelligence Network (awin.aviationweek.com) for updates.
