Aerospace Daily & Defense Report

The U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory will provide a range of options to the commandant for counter-unmanned aircraft system air domain surveillance.

The U.S. Navy is seeking an autonomous cargo-unmanned aerial system and will host an experiment in March to transport a 50-lb. payload.

India’s space agency plans to launch its HysIS Earth observation spacecraft this week, along with 30 smaller piggyback satellites from eight countries.

Boeing has received a new contract to deliver A/MH-6 primary airframe structures to U.S. Army Special Forces, but a bitter legal dispute with the original supplier is continuing.

South Korea plans to purchase two Green Pine Block C radar warning systems for $292 million.

Russia is planning to resume trials of the active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar made by Phazotron-NIIR on MiG-29 family fighters.

Raytheon hopes to be under contract with the U.S. Navy in 2019 to develop an advanced version of its Miniature Air-Launched Decoy.

U.S. Navy officials want to develop “as soon as feasibly possible” a next-generation towed decoy for the Boeing F/A-18E/F fleet.

DARPA has selected BAE Systems to develop a new data-driven, machine-learning algorithm to decode radio frequency signals.

The largest independent global helicopter leasing company, Waypoint Leasing, on Nov. 25 sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York.

Lockheed Martin has begun the second phase of a project to integrate an infrared search and track sensor internally on the U.S. Navy’s Boeing F/A-18E/F fleet.

NASA’s InSight lander touched down on the flat, wide expanse of Mars’ Elysium Planitia on Nov. 26, wrapping up a seven-month, 300-million-mile (480-million-km) journey.

Japanese commercial UAV company Terra Drone said Nov. 26 it has bought drone services company Skeye of The Netherlands.

The topic of human spaceflight risk arose during a Q-&-A session with the crew of a Soyuz MS-11 slated to launch to the ISS on Dec. 3.

credit rating giant S&P Global Ratings has downgraded its assessments of several traditional fixed satellite services companies and soured on the whole sector.

Malaysia has set up a naval air squadron to operate drones given to the country by the U.S., the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) chief says.

The Philippines Air Force has grounded its Leonardo W3 Sokol medium helicopters following a crash on Nov. 22, the third accident involving the type since 2012.

The kind of AI tech that has made spectacular progress in the consumer world is thus far unsuited to air transport safety standards—and consequently cockpit electronics—French aerospace research center Onera and avionics manufacturer Thales say.

InSight is to become the first spacecraft to place a seismometer directly on the surface of another planet to detect quakes.

Mil’s internal rival within Russian Helicopters, the Kamov Design Bureau, will continue working on the conceptual design of a new naval helicopter called “Minoga,” or "Lamprey," in English.

China has approved United Technologies Corp.’s (UTC) acquisition of Rockwell Collins, completing all regulatory reviews necessary to conclude the proposed $30 billion deal.

The company has been struggling for several years after a downturn in the executive aviation market.

A contract for a joint Future Combat Air System study will be signed “early in 2019,” according to a joint statement from the French and German ministers of defense.

In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S.

Initial trials bringing together the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and Britain’s new HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier have exceeded expectations, senior officers say.