Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has postponed the planned Aug. 27 launch of the AsiaSat-6 communications satellite to determine whether the

LONDON – The Turkish government has extended a deadline for bidders to submit their renewed tenders in a disputed ground-based air defense system deal

As the summer ends, the U.S. Navy is getting ready for major tests of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mission packages. After switching out its countermine

HOUSTON — Robonaut 2, the first U.S.-built, dexterous humanoid in space, is scheduled to receive a pair of climbing legs before the U.S. Labor Day

MAINTAINING COURSE: Despite China’s Aug. 19 harassment of a U.S. P-8 sub-hunter aircraft in international airspace near Hainan Island, the Pentagon

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PARIS — The European Commission (EC) has asked the European Space Agency (ESA) and commercial launch consortium Arianespace to provide details of the

LONDON — Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) says it has performed flight tests of a fly-by-wire boom system destined for use on tanker conversions of

CORSAIR DOWN: The Hellenic Air Force (HAF) has lost one of its Vought A-7 Corsairs less than two months before the type is due to be retired. The

LONDON — The Algerian air force may be carrying out trials with the Airbus A400M airlifter. Pictures of one of the development aircraft, F-WWMZ —

LONDON — The Algerian air force may be carrying out trials with the Airbus A400M airlifter. Pictures of one of the development aircraft, F-WWMZ —

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) is seeking ways to assemble human-scale products from atomic-scale constituents to enable new

The U.S. Navy awarded contracts this month with a total potential value of $161.6 million for various kinds of support for the Littoral Combat ship

HOUSTON—The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Rosetta mission managers are working toward mid-October for a pair of key landing site and operational

Pentagon decisions to send some of its most modern platforms and systems to Japan underscore the U.S. commitment to the Asian country and the region

U.S. Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chilean Undersecretary of Defense Marcos Robledo agreed earlier this month to continue, through their respective navies, discussions on research, development and use of advanced drop-in alternative fuels to power surface ships and aircraft.

As China improves its naval and other military forces, the country is looking for across-the-board upgrades and seems more concerned with quality over

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HUNTSVILLE — U.S. Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Adm. James Syring says the next official test of the Boeing Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD

A former European Space Agency inspector general will head an independent failure review commission set up to seek the cause of a “major anomaly” that

CROSSING NEPTUNE: NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has crossed Neptune’s orbit as it continues on its way to become the first probe to make a close

LOS ANGELES — Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) is continuing preparations to fly a second, more capable, reusable Falcon 9 first stage testbed

A second flight test of the boost-glide U.S. Army Hypersonic Weapon (AHW) ended in failure shortly after liftoff Aug. 25 from Kodiak Launch Complex in

HOUSTON — Flight controllers have interrupted the intermittent release of 28 Earth observing cubesats from the International Space Station’s (ISS)

The FAA is facing more legal challenges to its efforts to enforce a ban on commercial unmanned aircraft use until it can get long-delayed regulations