Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

By Mark Carreau
David Thompson, co-founder of Orbital Sciences, has been chosen to receive the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation’s National Space Trophy.
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By Graham Warwick
The global market for autonomous urban air mobility (UAM) could be worth $2.9 trillion by 2040, according to Morgan Stanley Research.

By Lee Hudson
The USAF has accepted the first KC-46A from Boeing after it agreed to fix deficiencies discovered in developmental testing of the Remote Vision System.
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By Graham Warwick
Israeli drone delivery provider Flytrex has raised $7.5 million in a Series B investment round led by Benhamou Global Ventures.

UKRAINE’s state-owned Ukroboronprom delivered 50 aircraft to Ukrainian armed forces in 2018.

Airbus said it “achieved 800 commercial aircraft deliveries” in 2018, thus concluding the year in a close finish against Boeing, which handed over 806 commercial aircraft.

By Bill Carey
Transport Canada on Jan. 9 announced new rules governing the use of small unmanned aircraft that introduce basic and advanced categories of drone operations.

By Mark Carreau
Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 have been suspended due to a hardware issue.
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By Guy Norris
Blue Origin confirms it remains on track to start crewed flights aboard its New Shepard suborbital vehicle early this year.
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By Thierry Dubois
Arianespace is planning on “up to 12” launches from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana with the current launcher family in 2019.
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By Jen DiMascio
Russia will begin to operate two electronic warfare units—one of which uses a ground-based system to disable satellites—in 2019.
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By Bradley Perrett
Indonesian Aerospace has received an order for eight Airbus H225M and nine Bell 412EPI helicopters from the country’s defense ministry, the company said.
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By Steve Trimble
Boeing will likely not face competition to integrate a powerful new engine into the AH-64 Apache fleet, the U.S. Army says.
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By Molly McMillin
Dassault Aviation delivered 12 Rafale fighter jets in 2018, including three jets delivered to France and nine elsewhere, compared to nine deliveries in 2017.
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By Graham Warwick
The joint venture with Airbus Defense and Space has begun to manufacture more than 900 smallsats for OneWeb and has secured the first potential outside customer for its Arrow platform—DARPA.
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By Mark Carreau
The National Space Club and Foundation has named ex-acting NASA Administrator Robert Lightfoot Jr. the winner of the 2019 Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy.
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India’s first solar probe—Aditya-L1—is “making headway,” according to a scientist with the ISRO, with launch expected to take place in 2019-2020.
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ISRAELI AIR FORCE F-15 canopy broke off during a training flight last week from Tel Nof Air Base at 30,000 ft.

This week the Trump administration and Congress continue negotiations to resolve the partial government shutdown.

DynCorp International LLC, Fort Worth, has been awarded a $75,020,715 firm-fixed-price contract for rotary wing aircraft maintenance.

By Tony Osborne
Britain’s aerospace industry is growing nervous over concerns that the UK Parliament may not approve the withdrawal agreement negotiated between the British government and the European Union, according to aerospace, defense, security and space trade association ADS.
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By Bill Carey
Weeks after reported UAV sightings disrupted operations at Gatwick Airport, London Heathrow Airport briefly suspended departures Jan. 8 to probe a UAV sighting.
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By Lee Hudson
The Pentagon’s deputy assistant secretary of defense for industrial policy, Eric Chewning, has accepted the role of defense secretary chief of staff.
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By Michael Bruno
A new master agreement between Boeing and leading aerostructures supplier Spirit AeroSystems is expected to be signed this month.

By Thierry Dubois
French space agency Cnes has taken a financial stake in Kineis, a project aimed at creating a low-cost constellation for the internet of things (IoT).
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