Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Around 353 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expected to be launched over the next decade compared to 162 in 2004-2013, according to Euroconsult. This will result in $36 billion in manufacturing revenue globally, an 85% increase over the previous decade, the consultant company says. In 2023 the commercial EO data market is expected to reach $3.6 billion (for an 8% compound annual growth rate over 2014-2023). Asia, Latin America and Africa are expected to grow at more than 10% CAGR each.

NEW DELHI — The Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS-1C), the country’s third navigation satellite, will be launched on Oct. 16

LONDON — Auditors charged with examining defense procurement practices in Germany have said the system lacks systematic control between projects

LONDON — Giuseppe Orsi, the former president and CEO of Finmeccanica, has received a two-year suspended prison sentence for false invoicing. Orsi

The U.S. Army is eying improvements to its burgeoning Manned/Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) technology work to link the service’s unmanned intelligence

Several regulatory and financial factors have combined over the last year to boost most major U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) contractors’ bottom

NASA and other space agencies operating at Mars are planning to put a full-court press on the comet Siding Spring 2013 when it passes about 87,000 mi

LONDON — Alenia Aermacchi has selected the Williams International FJ44-4M turbofan to power its updated M345 military trainer aircraft. The 4M model

LOCKHEED MARTIN ISRAEL and YISSUM RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT agreed to conduct joint collaborative research on basic and applicable scientific research in

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Air Force is introducing a long-awaited automatic ground collision avoidance system (AGCAS) as a fleet-wide upgrade to more

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The U.S. Air Force predicts that the export market for Raytheon’s recently won Three-Dimensional Long-Range Radar design could be as high as 100

LONDON — A U.K.-based U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle has crashed into the countryside in Lincolnshire during a training flight. The twin-seat F-15D came

PARIS — A design flaw in the thermal system of the Soyuz Fregat upper stage left Europe’s first two fully operational Galileo navigation, positioning

LONDON — Greece is trying to resurrect its P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, five years after the fleet was grounded. The Hellenic government has

LOS ANGELES — Suborbital space vehicle developer XCOR Aerospace has begun final assembly of the prototype two-seat Lynx Mk. 1 spaceplane at its Mojave

With Pentagon research and technology spending coming under budget pressure, companies are increasingly protecting any competitive advantage by

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AIRBUS successfully demonstrated the ability to airdrop 24 48x48-in., 1-ton containers from the A400M in a single pass, which represents maximum capacity for aircraft for this type of container, which is a key contractual requirement. U.S. COAST GUARD took delivery of its 18th HC-144A Ocean Sentry MPA (CN235) from AIRBUS DEFENSE AND SPACE . ALMATY CITY RESCUE SERVICE, Kazakhstan, took delivery of new multirole Mi-8AMT from RUSSIAN HELICOPTERS .

Raytheon has been selected over Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman to develop an active-array air defense radar for the U.S. Air Force, its third

The U.S. Navy has changed the schedules of two Norfolk-based aircraft carriers. CVN 75 USS Harry S. Truman will replace CVN 69 USS Dwight D

BEIJING — The Australian defense department has confirmed that it may seek two Boeing C-17A Globemasters in addition to the pair that it has just

HOUSTON — As part of its preparations for future human deep space exploration, NASA is awarding $12.5 million for nine ground-based investigations

SYDNEY/CANBERRA/BEIJING — BAE Systems has handed over the first of Australia’s two new assault ships as the government considers whether to equip the

LONDON — Oil and gas workers traveling to and from offshore platforms in the North Sea will have their shoulder widths measured to test their