Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Michael Bruno
Nanosatellite hopeful Sky and Space Global may yet make good on its payment obligations to manufacturer GomSpace, but it did not come in time for GomSpace’s latest quarterly report.
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By Steve Trimble
The Northrop Grumman B-21 bomber is making progress in development despite previously disclosed problems, a senior U.S. Air Force official said Feb. 28.
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By Steve Trimble
BAE Systems has upgraded its ASQ-239 electronic warfare system with new hardware that reduces its size and power requirements, as well as replaces obsolescent components.
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By Bill Carey
Portugal’s air force has selected Collins Aerospace to upgrade its C-130H Hercules flight decks, the company announced Feb. 27.
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By Lee Hudson
For the first time, the U.S. Air Force carried out a forward air refueling point (FARP) operation from the MC-130J Commando II to the F-35A Lightning II.
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By Steve Trimble
USAF leaders stopped short of endorsing the service’s budget request to buy 80 Boeing F-15X fighters on Feb. 28 at the Air Warfare Symposium.
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By Mark Carreau
Tucson, Arizona-based based World View Enterprises has announced the appointment of new CEO Ryan Hartman, former president and CEO of Insitu.
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By Tony Osborne
The Italian government is set to save the Piaggio P.1HH Hammerhead UAV program using money set aside for the development of the more advanced P.2HH program.
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By Bradley Perrett
Italy’s decision to integrate the far-flying MBDA Meteor on the Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning is improving the missile maker’s chances with Australia.
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By Bradley Perrett
The Japanese Coast Guard plans to hold a demonstration in 2020 to assess surveillance drones, an industry source said.
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THE U.S. AIR FORCE’S General Atomics-made Block 50 ground control station controlled an MQ-9 Reaper for the first time.

Boeing on Feb. 26 nominated former Trump administration diplomat and South Carolina Gov Nikki Haley to join the company’s board of directors.

LEONARDO and NORTHROP GRUMMAN AUSTRALIA signed MOU to partner on C-27J through-life support services in New Zealand.

The Indian Air Force used the Rafael Spyder air defense system to shoot down a Pakistani UAV in western India.

The U.S. Army plans to purchase Israel’s Iron Dome system, opting to buy the first batch of the rocket interceptor for deployed U.S. military forces against a range of ballistic and airborne threats.

By Irene Klotz
A Russian Soyuz rocket has ent the first six satellites for OneWeb’s planned 600- to 900-member broadband constellation into orbit.
Defense and Space

By Steve Trimble
Lockheed Martin will soon deliver the first Legion pod with an infrared search and track sensor for the USAF F-15C fleet, company officials said Feb. 27.
Defense and Space

By Graham Warwick
Engineered in Australia, Boeing’s Airpower Teaming System is a fighter-like unmanned aircraft designed to operate alongside manned combat and intelligence platforms.

By Michael Bruno
Democratic lawmakers who pushed for a Pentagon inspector general’s review of aerospace and defense supplier TransDigm Group’s work for the Defense Department appeared to accept its conclusions but indicated they will try to keep the spotlight on all military spare parts providers.
Defense and Space

By Mark Carreau
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa 2 and NASA’s Osiris-Rex missions are writing a new chapter in the exploration of Solar System bodies.
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By Bradley Perrett
Boeing’s Airpower Teaming System (ATS) escort-drone program is in part an answer to China’s attempts at threatening valuable and vulnerable support aircraft behind enemy fighters.
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By Mark Carreau
Astrobotic, the 12-year-old, Pittsburgh-based space robotics company, has announced European and U.S. pathways to future commercial lunar surface operations.
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A day after India launched an air strike against alleged terror camps in Pakistan, Islamabad claims to have shot down two Indian Air Force (IAF) MiG-21s.
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By Tony Osborne
Airspace over Pakistan and a large swath of northwestern India has been closed to commercial flights after a series of air strikes ratcheted up tensions between the two countries.
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By Arie Egozi
The Indian Air Force used the Rafael Spyder air defense system to shoot down a Pakistani UAV in western India.
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