Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

With the first launch for a global broadband satellite network behind it, OneWeb has raised another $1.25 billion from investors.

Egypt has signed an agreement to buy about 20 Russian-made Su-35 fighter jets for nearly $2 billion, Russian news outlets say.

Japan has begun the process of acquiring Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightnings by preparing to issue a request for proposals for STOVL fighters.

Australia is acquiring a second pair of Gulfstream G550s modified by L3 for vaguely described electronic warfare missions.

If the climate change saga has a sequel, it might be planetary defense from a large meteor, asteroid or comet.

The financial pressures impacting helicopter operators supporting the oil and gas industry have claimed another victim.

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LOCKHEED MARTIN has $506.9m U.S. Army contract for PAC-3 missiles.

United Technologies (UTC) has provided more insights into its Skunk Works-style UT Advanced Projects (UTAP) organization

The Defense Department’s fiscal 2020 hypersonic weapon budget request shows that the path beyond operational flight and weapons prototypes is still long and uncertain.

Rolls-Royce has ground-tested a hybrid-electric propulsion system based on its widely-used Model 250 helicopter turboshaft, paving the way for experimental flights in 2021.

Russia’s Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft docked successfully with the International Space Station (ISS) late March 14.

Construction is due to begin next month on an equatorial space launch base in northern Australia, with initial suborbital shots planned for this year.

NORTHROP GRUMMAN has $349.4m U.S. Army contract for two complete battery sets of Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System production hardware and software.

United Launch Alliance is scheduled to launch the 10th Wideband Global Satcom satellite to geosynchronous orbit for the U.S. Air Force March 15 from Space Launch Complex-37 at Cape Canaveral AFS in Florida on a Delta IV Medium+ rocket.

AVIATION WEEK NETWORK forecasts that from 2019 to 2028, Western-designed military transport aircraft will generate $155.4 billion in maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) demand.

Air navigation service providers in the UK and Canada will soon start a joint trial of space-based surveillance of aircraft flying over the North Atlantic.

A U.S./Russian two-man, one-woman crew launched March 14 aboard the Soyuz MS-12 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a fast-track to the International Space Station.

Embraer on March 14 confirmed it delivered 91 executive jets and 90 commercial jets last year, in line with what the Brazilian aircraft maker advised in January.

The Northrop Grumman B-2 Defense Management System Modernization will be at least six to eight months late.

A House Republican is answering Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan’s call to repeal legislation so that the DOD can establish a combatant command for space.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is reopening the question of whether astronauts could fly on the debut mission of the Space Launch System (SLS).

The USAF wants a promised, Boeing-funded upgrade for the KC-46’s remote vision system to include an architectural change that would resolve a fundamental “design flaw” with the current technology, Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Will Roper says.

Aircraft piloted by artificial intelligence algorithms could be flying operational demonstrations within three years, a senior U.S. Air Force official says.

The Kawasaki Heavy Industries OH-1 helicopter is returning to Japanese army service after more than three years on the ground caused by engine unreliability.