Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

Boeing says it has completed the first flight of an autonomous passenger air vehicle (PAV) prototype developed by subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences.

FAA said it received two reports from incoming flights to EWR at 5 p.m. local time of a drone flying at about 3,500 ft. above Teterboro, New Jersey, to the northeast.

NASA astronaut Eric Boe, one of three crewmembers assigned to make a flight test aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, has been pulled from the mission.

France and Germany have pledged to strengthen their bilateral defense cooperation following the signing of a new treaty.

This week’s planned launch of India’s Microsat-R remote sensing satellite will feature a unique experiment involving the PSLV's fourth stage.

Germany’s Rheinmetall and Britain’s BAE Systems have agreed to create a joint venture to support a series of upcoming British combat vehicle programs.

A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber crashed Jan. 22 at the Olenegrosk military airfield in the Murmansk region of northern Russia.

ArianeGroup has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for a one-year feasibility study on exploiting lunar natural resources by 2025.

As part of preparations for a full-scale intercept test with the Arrow-3 ballistic missile defense system to be performed in Alaska, Israel and the U.S. have tested the missile over the Mediterranean.

A decision by embattled aerospace and defense supplier Arconic to not sell itself means a longer road to recovery for shareholders, analysts said.

Prior-year restructuring and the continuing upswing of aerospace and defense end-markets boosted Allegheny Technologies in 2018.

Luxaviation Group has signed an agreement to sell ExecuJet’s global maintenance activities to Dassault Aviation.

Ivory Coast has ordered a single Airbus C295 twin-turboprop airlifter for its air force, the airframer announced Jan. 21.

The purchases of Israel Military Industries by Elbit Systems and Aeronautics by Rafael will allow these firms to address the needs of the Israeli Air Force for UAS.

In a shocking move just three months after founder Paul Allen's death, Stratolaunch has abandoned development of a family of dedicated launchers and PGA rocket engines.

RHEINMETALL has Swedish armed forces contract to supply 47 MAN Military Vehicles for transporting RAYTHEON-made Patriot air defense systems.

Philippines defense minister Delfin Lorenzana has announced that the purchase of 16 S-70i Black Hawk helicopters will proceed.

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LEONARDO HELICOPTERS UK has five-year, £293m ($378m) contract to support UK Apache attack helicopters until its out-of-service date in March 2024.

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) has resumed science observations, following a voltage issue that interrupted operations by the 29-year-old space telescope’s primary imager on Jan. 8.

Air Force Undersecretary Matt Donovan told reporters Jan. 18 that the experimentation campaign will continue and details will be revealed in the fiscal 2020 budget request.

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The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 has resumed science observations.

A collaborative assessment concludes that samples of two Martian moons could be gathered robotically and returned to Earth without a biohazard threat.